Ian_Levine

Taken today, August 20th 2008.

Another collection pic I found, although I really do need to take some more recent ones.

I'm quite proud of how rare it is.

It's not that bad, actually

I can't actually argue with that logic.

All the DC promos should be of great interest to all DC collectors. I have never seen some of them come up for sale, like "The Dirt-Minator".

I'm surprised there were so few DCs on that list. Some of the promos are rarer than Golden Age keys. One day people will realise how collectable they are and their value will shoot up.

I don't need either of the two Weird Mystery mini-comics as my copies are perfect, but I am absolutely FASCINATED to find out what other promos you have, please.

Well it's rare.

There are three versions.The first have plain covers and there are only about five pairs in existence.The second have the drawn covers, drawn at DC itself, and are legitimate, made by some fans who worked within DC and there were a limited set of exactly fifty made. I have one of these. Paul Sassienie picked it up for me many years ago in San Diego.The third are bootlegs taken off the second. These look quite similar but the printing is nowhere near as clear and sharp. They are in the light blue shiny covers with the black plastic binding, like a facsimile of the real ones.The bootlegs do often come up on e-Bay if you look for them. But even the bootlegs aren't all that common. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make them look convincing.

I'm not exactly sure.You may be right but I don't know enough history to assure you, except to say you're most likely correct.But alternately, they may have been coloured by someone at DC unofficially.I just obtained them without knowing the entire story.Certainly the same stuff appears in my set of Cancelled Comic Cavalcade but in black and white.Much as the colour cover to Double Action, these are all things I obtained off others as scans over six years ago.

No they are several pages long and are proper Superman stories in black and white. They only appeared in 1947. Every other issue from a different year that I have so far come across doesn't seem to have any trace of them inside.

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