Ian_Levine

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Eight

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Seven

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Six

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Five

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Four

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Three

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number Two

I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the like graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number One

 

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.

Hi Ian! I'm not around here as much anymore but when I saw this thread had been resurrected I had to see what was going on.

 

Every time you post those pictures I drool. You deserve an unmeasurable amount of pride in your accomplishment. I loved it in the old days when you were pursuing those final books and so many members here were trying to help you search. Even though I never even came close to finding you anything I still felt a part of something monumental.

 

Here's hoping you find the promos and giveaways you're seeking.

 

-- Joanna

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.

Ian,

Found some old Direct Currents and promo stuff - have you got all these?

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.

I would but I was mistaken and I don't have them anymore. I am moving and I may have sold them or given them away months ago. I only had a dozen or so anyway but if I do find any I will let you know.

 

 

Oh what a pity.

 

 

I think I have some of the early ones at home. I'll take a look tonight.

 

I'm trying to collect just the DC pages "Direct Currents" from all of them.

Would you be prepared to help

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.

 

Anybody ??

Anyone ??

This is the house ad for Detective Comics 1.

 

You don't by chance happen to have a copy of this do you?

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.

Interesting stuff. Would never have figured organized fan-dom would have come into being that early in the UK.

 

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

I guess it made a bit more dramatic sounding story.

 

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.

The editor of the fanzine is Dez Skinn.

 

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.

I suspect the truth might lie in between. perhaps the old guy just called up alan and asked what he pays for old comics and received a standard reply (for comics) from an employee without alan knowing what books they were

 

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.

It's nice to see there've been unscrupulous (and unfriendly) comic dealers as long as there has been a back-issue comic market. Human nature is such a wonderfully predictable thing.

 

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

In my opinion he's one of the nicest guys in the business (although he mainly deals in books these days), with an unmatched knowledge of British comic fandom history.

 

Seconded.

Hope this is of interest, found this story in an old UK fanzine from the early 1970s

 

Shows there was original-owner DC keys in the UK even then. Alan Austin (the dealer Ian mentioned) is reported to offer 1pence for Action no.1 amongst others!!!!

 

 

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.

Wow, I had no idea there were so many Superman Tims.

 

Ninety four in total.

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