Ian_Levine

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Is that a "yes" ?

Many years ago, a bunch of fans did a set of colour covers specifically for Cancelled Comic Cavalcade. Not for profit but purely as a hobby. There was even an old website which carried some of them. It was all terribly unofficial, and I can't even remember the guy who sent me the scans after so many years. There's a set of 21 - basically two main colour covers, which match the covers done for the bound volumes, and nineteen more individual covers which match the artwork from Cancelled Comic Cavalcade exactly but as colour comic covers as a set, although one of them was a cancelled Hellblazer comic that somehow got itself included in the set, even though it was cancelled many many years later. This has nothing to do with me, but I obtained them and kept them for years. All the artwork, every piece of it, is authentic DC that got cancelled.. Anyone interested in me posting them up here Just curious.

One of my favourite comic people.I've been trying to post up stuff that no-one has seen anywhere else. Posting up stuff like Action 1 to 10 seems pointless as you can see a pic of them in any book about comics, but these rare giveaways are worth picturing for posterity and to help anyone else who wouldn't otherwise know about them, like I didn't originally.

A fabulous display and it's wonderful of you to post it up.Yes I have everything you show here.The original Direct Currents were promo comics issued by DC. There were nearly 100 of them. I have the lot and many spares of some of them.At some point between 1988 and 1992, Previews Magazine started its Direct Current section. I am trying to find all these, and not keep the whole mag, just the DC sections from each month only, stapled together.I have a complete run from 2002 to today but very few from the 1990s.

Oh what a pity.

I'm trying to collect just the DC pages "Direct Currents" from all of them. Would you be prepared to help

Anybody ?? Anyone ??

DC had two titles already running when they introduced Detective 1, which were More Fun and New Adventure Comics, so I imagine I will have this ad in the relevant issue of each of those, but they're all sealed up neatly so I'd have to know which issues to go and look. I know that New Adventure 26 has the first ever ad for Action Comics 1.

Can anybody tell me what month and year the Previews magazine first featured their "Direct Currents" section, picturing the forthcoming DC releases I have heard theories ranging between 1988 and 1992 and none have been corroborated yet.

I seem to recall my old friend and mentor Mike Lake organised the first ever UK comic con.

Yeah that's what I thought too. I know from bitter experience that it won't be the first time a journalist has taken liberties with the truth.

Yes I know, but I still don't believe Alan Austin wouldn't have ever jumped at the chance to buy Action Comics 1 through 15.

Yeah but Alan ran a one man show in the 1970s. There was no budget to have emplyees back then. It was one little basement in Hackney.

Sorry but I don't believe a word of that article.

Seconded.

Having known Alan Austin well in the 1970s and being his most regular customer, I can assure you that even back then, he would have jumped at the chance of having the early Actions and Detectives and would have offered a fair price. He was the man who printed the first ever UK comic book price guide, which was just a photocopied affair on A4 but his heart was in the right place and he did turn up comics that no-one else could, which is how I ended up with virtually a complete run from 1957 up to 1986 when I quit for a while.

Ninety four in total. And during 1947, there were also Superman-Tim strips in the sister magazine, called Joan And Ginger's Magazine.