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Ian_Levine

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    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    You have to go through all the hard work of trying to put the set together to really appreciate something like dirtminator or the GA defend your home book you posted earlier.

     

    People that haven't put the work in will never appreciate it in the same way as someone like yourself or Jerome will.

     

    I can't actually argue with that logic.

    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    Personally I doubt it. If vintage promo material has not much of a market, why would 90s promo material suddenly attract buyers. Its interesting stuff but I don't think it appeals to a broad enough collector base

     

    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".

    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    Good news, I found the list of them on my computer. Their all promo's, mini comics, etc from the mid 90's-early 2000's that were never retailed but only 3 or 4 are DC's.

     

    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.

    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    Thanks. Well if you need an extra, upgrade or you want to trade it for something drop me a PM. I think i have a lot more promo's like it from around that time. I will dig them up and see what i find.

     

    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.

    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    Thanks for posting them, whatever their origin.

     

    Anyone know how to get "bootleg" copies of the CCC's? And how much do they go for?

     

    I was reading some of those series when they were cancelled!

    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.

    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    So, just so I understand this...

     

    The cover art was included in the CCC's, and some fans took that, colored them, and produced them as covers?

    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.

    The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.

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    Very interesting. I had no idea about Joan and Ginger's Magazine. What are these strips like? One full page with 6-9 panels?

     

     

    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.