Ian_Levine

How long would it take to read 35000 comics. One person couldn't read every new DC every week, for a start.

I seriously hope not. Justice Society Of America, House Of Mystery, The War That Time Forgot. Great stuff.

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Till Death Do Us Part. Rare DC from last year.

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I just buy them whenever they come up if they're cheap. I stockpile spares of them for the future. One day people will realise just how scarce and collectible they are. Over the years, even if thousands of giveaways were printed, most people just binned them. I have had an automatic search going for a spare Dirt-Minator for four years now, and not one has ever ever turned up.

I have to recatalogue every couple of years to bring all the runs up to date. DC issue over a thousand comics a year. This time I started in January 2007 and still haven't finished.

Oh but of course they are. I have every Direct Currents. There were about 100. I have every DC Preview, at least every one I'm aware of. Some were four pages, some were eight. Some are common, like the Stardust one you display, others like Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children and the Shadow War, are amongst the rarest items I have ever come across. But I tracked them all down.

I'm sure the buyer was happy. I certainly would be at that price. My friend Jerome will be gutted when he finds out he missed one for less than four hundred bucks.

Jerome Wenker in Minneapolis is only missing a couple of hundred titles, but they're all the most expensive ones. But like me, he has all the promos and every variant. His collection is utterly amazing and he has been the greatest help to me that I could ever hope for. He had the Superman/Bradman comic before anyone.

$399 ? That's RIDICULOUS.

I haven't scanned mine because I have a scan stored of the Mile High copy. In the meantime, it never hurts to show this pic again...

I don't believe there is one. Only the artwork and the knowledge that it was to reprint Doctor Occult. It's more like Cancelled Comic Cavalcade - the only copies that exist are mocked up. Here's the cover.

They were two advertising booklets, about a quarter the size of regular comics, containing preview panels of various DC and Vertigo mystery titles.

The Dirtminator turned up on e-Bay about four years ago. The lot contained two copies. I kept one and let Jerome Wenker have the other. I have searched for it ever since, as I wanted a spare, and it has never ever ever turned up anywhere. DC made it as a custom comic book for Black and Decker, and created an evil dust monster that could only be defeated by their "Dustbuster". It is a proper regular sized comic book displaying the DC bullet, whereas many of the promos DC made did not display the bullet.

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Paul Levitz gave me his personal copy. I could never find it any other way.

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