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On 4/2/2024 at 10:13 PM, Warlord said:

The Robin issues have set me to thinking about which DCU issues are rarer or harder to find.  I've been wondering if the issues in some date ranges or certain months are any harder to find than others.  So I've done some analysis of all the DCUs that exist per my list (558 issues) vs those that I've found for my collection (393).  Excluding a handful of issues where I don't have a month/year date (some annuals and oddballs listed below), here's a look at how my collection has developed.  As I've noted in previous comments, my collection is perhaps 95+% sourced from LCS and conventions (plus a couple odd lots of ebay comics with some random DCUs) where I've bought whatever issues I encountered.  Those that I've sought out specifically, such as searching for and buying an issue on ebay, have been the exception by far.

I've made a couple observations from this analysis.  First, January through August 1994 are extremely well represented in my collection.  I've found about 150 of 158 issues. But then the last three months of 1994 stand in stark contrast.  I've only found about two-thirds of the Sept-Nov issues, and then only three of the Dec 1994 issues.  Of the months with any significant number of DCU issues, that is quite the outlier month.

The 1995 issues are all reasonably represented in my collection, with perhaps a slight under-representation of the May, June, and November issues.

The 1996 issues generally seem under-represented in my collection too.  I've done well with March through May but January and February appear to be giving me some trouble, and I'm doing only about 60% or so for the second half of the year.

Then, of course, there's 1997 issues of which I have none.  But there are only five 1997 issues, so for the moment I'm not making too much of that outcome.

I don't think my personal experiences can be extrapolated to form any conclusions.  However, I'd be interested in hearing from the peanut gallery on whether your collecting experiences or observations align with or differ with these results.   For instance, what about those December 1994 issues?  Are they really that tough, or am I just looking in the wrong boxes?

 

 

I need to nail down appropriate month/year of publication for these five issues... LMK if you can provide that info!

Unfortunately it will be a while before I can go through all of my DC Universe Logo books to see what all I have . @L.E. Gill has done a great job of compiling data on these books as of late. 

That said I do know you are not looking in the wrong boxes.  Those December of 1994 definitely are extremely tough to find. Just a quick run down of the images that I do have from those December 94 books.