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2) have you read all the stories?

 

How long would it take to read 35000 comics.

One person couldn't read every new DC every week, for a start.

do you ever plan to stop buying the moderns up to date?

 

 

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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Lightning Racers

 

I get to go through a couple stores back rooms every now and then, and the previews and things pop up, anything I should be looking for?

 

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.

Ian,

 

Thanks for posting all of these amazing promos. It's truely a once in a lifetime opportunity to see some of these. I am sure you had a very thorough filing system to keep track of each issue as you bought it. Have you ever gone back through them and recatalogued them?

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.

Where do you draw the line - obviously the Weird Mystery Tales can be considered "comics", but what about something like this:

 

 

or this:

 

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.

Both seller and buyer seemed happy

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.

Was there any other's that come close to the mark, I thought there was one or two other's who had made decent attempts over the years to accumulate every DC?

 

 

 

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.

how much

 

$399

$399 ?

That's RIDICULOUS.

 

A personal request - if you could post a scan or picture of the New Adventure #26, that would be cool. I still remember the first time I held your copy in my hands when the prior owner showed it to me at the show in Oakland, CA. It's gorgeous!

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...

Do you have Double Action 1?

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.

The Remco Warlord is obviously a toy giveaway, isn't it? Weird Mystery Tales is the one I'm most puzzled by.

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

Ian, I'm not sure this has been asked but how to deal with all those comics? I mean do you have some form of Comic room or even a museum to display some of the books?

 

Also the "Dirtminator" - what's that all about?

 

Very cool - I would imagine you're locating stuff that you didn't know existed all the time.

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.

Some of Ian's pictures are just amazing.

Christmas Tree Giveaway Mini-Comics

what is the story about the twisted metal??

 

how was it distributed? or was it found somehow?

Paul Levitz gave me his personal copy.

I could never find it any other way.

Some of Ian's pictures are just amazing.

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Some of Ian's pictures are just amazing.

1960s Batman Pamphlet