David Buck

Another one I just dug out - Shazam - Superhero Hooky - from an unknown release of the original movie ; this is presented as a digital motioncomic on most versions - but had a physical comic release in at least one - possibly a UK exclusive 

I just remembered I had this one - 

The Losers Special Edition #1 from 2010 to accompany the movie, all ads in it are for HMV so presumably this was exclusive to their DVD or Blu-ray 

here's some obscure ones - 

Take No Prisoners - a PC game from 1997 had a promotional comic - this is one that Ian Levine said was produced by DC, which he says someone at DC told him since there is nothing in the comic to confirm it 

Space Bunnies Must Die - this is an obscure Dark Horse mini promo cmic that I have mentioned before on a Dark Horse thread - it's missing from most online comic databases as far as I can tell

Tom & Jerry in War Of The Whiskers from DC - not sure how this will fit in with the first appearance of the game franchise in comics Theme - I guess it depends if the comic follows the plot of the game in any context in this instance & not just some generic Tom & Jerry stories 

Pryzm mini comic - worth noting on this that although the promo mini comic is common and well known - there's a second version where it''s the reverse of the instruction manual in flip-book format in some versions of the game (the instruction manual Varaint is the one with the white Border and TDK info in the bottom left corner - the regular promo comic has no border and a TDK logo in the bottom right corner with less accompanying text) 

Red Faction Handbook  - I'm not sure if Wildstorm's Red Faction Guerrilla #1 was published as a physical copy - so this Handbook may be the comic debut in print (maybe a different story - I don't have it to check) 

De Blob - Long Live (Color/Colour) - this was available digitally in several languages - I have only seen print copies in English but there are US and UK variants with the spelling difference to be aware of 

F3ar (a.k.a. Fear 3) - pretty obscure but you may know of this one 

Justice League Heroes #1 - not as well known as the DC Universe promo comics so may have slipped your notice 

DC did a Soul Calibur IV in pack comic around the same time 

Just out of Curiosity - would this be on the OP's list or not - it'a an 80's comic included in some UK versions of the game - which according to Wikipedia came out under  a different title "Rad Warrior" Stateside

In the UK at least there was a physical mini comic printing of "Shazam! - Super Hooky" ; which was a digital Motion-comic on some US special edition; you may also have had a physical copy in the US in a different release though

Here's a few DC pictures I have on file related to the Mini DVD/Blu-Ray comics - most are on your list

On 4/23/2023 at 2:14 PM, Malacoda said:

To this day, pretty much the definitive comic shop.  Run by geeks for geeks, but had everything.  And I mean everything.  I remember it as being huge, and you always think that your memory plays tricks, but it actually was the largest SF bookshop in Europe (though it claimed the world).  My big regret is that I have practically no memory of the upper (street level) floor.   It was a head shop, populated by Tolkien freaks and fantasy nutters and it was magic (possibly literally).  The Fortean Times was printed above the shop.  Everyone who was anyone worked there at some point, including Paul Hudson, Nick Landau, Mike Lake and I think Dez Skinn, but perhaps more impressively, the staircase to the original property was designed by Dave Gibbons (who was a surveyor, training to be an architect at the time), the place was re-wired by Frank Dobson - whose day job was electrician.  The ads & decor were designed by Brian Bolland and Bryan Talbot.   According to legend, everyone got paid in comics. 

Of course, I was oblivious to all that as I streaked past it all (hey, it was the 70's), and bolted straight down the stairs to the absolute wonderland of comics that filled the whole bottom floor.  Weird to think I was probably rubbing elbows with the likes of Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore & Jonathan Ross.

Even their paper bags were the business. 

 

 

On 4/22/2023 at 8:46 AM, Get Marwood & I said:

Morning 

When I started this thread almost three years ago Rudolph was one of the first books I gathered as a candidate for 'earliest stamped DC' and the copy I purchased below has remained the only example I've seen up until this week:

Here's a second copy, currently on eBore, stamped a nine to my eight (so I still have the 'earliest' if my eight was the first eight boat and not the second. Or third / nineteenth ):

  

It's a good example of how they might have stacked them back in the day - we debated this a bit at some point in the thread - and you can clearly see the stamp smudges where it was placed on top of another still wet stamped book:

Only two copies seen in three years. Well, by me anyway.

All good fun 

well...

Now you've seen 3 !

RE: DC subscriptions - there happens to be a letter relating to resuming subscriptions with October 1971 coverdates(?) on ebay right now

Link

On 10/7/2022 at 3:18 PM, Joseph eaker said:

Just says the dark knight returns .dedicated to will jungaintz 1955 to1985 but can't find that name anywhere 

The bottom book in the pile appears to have staple holes in the middle of the spine - that suggests it was originally bound into a bigger item via a third staple, not seeing any indication of that on the others though.  

from a DC promo comic perspective I'd suggest that "Aquateers Meet the Superfriends" is scarcer than the Warlord mini comic - seen the latter for sale several times over the years, indeed when I bought my copy sealed with the Arak figure the ebay seller was in the process of selling a handful all with old shop price stickers on; but for Aquateers, other than the copy I bought I think I may have seen 1 other on ebay. 

This One ? 

Gent 

Edit - looks like it's a differnt Issue from the first capture but same title?

A very obscure Dark Horse comic - this ia a 4.5" Square promo from 1998 for a poorly received PC-game

cover Art by Doug Mahnke, art by Chris Brunner, --script by Scott Allie, 16 pages including covers; Indicia title is Space Bunnies Must Die! minicomic

not on the GCD as yet,

you could download the DC Master list from Mike's Amazing World and sort by date - Giveaways are on a seperate Tab

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/index.php?page=downloads

it's bibliographic research - those who want to collect printing variations will be interested, make your own mind up and ignore it if it's not for you.

you may want to qualify the Batman forever on the list as prestige format since the comic was also issued in mando format

This Batman Forever set contains Bat symbol UPC box variants of the following 3 prestige format books  - these all exist as newstand and Direct Market barcoded copies as well

Batman Forever - The Official Comic Adaptation, Batman: Riddler - The Riddle Factory, Batman: Two-Face - Crime And Punishment

all Indicia's state First Printing

The Riddler Book loooks like it is also in a single book Pack with a CD as evidenced on ebay

I'm probably wrong on my comment above about them also reissuing the Penguin one shot from 1992 - as the third book i had is the movie adaptation 

interestingly they've flipped the logo on the two-face issue, it no longer shows the Bat-symbol as a TM (trademark) but instead reads MT

apologies if I am repeating something that I found on here in the first place but I think it was actually an amazon recommendation instead where I learned of it., Alan Austin's memoir - a bargain at 77p on Kindle, I've just started reading it and am enjoying it, I read his interesting fiction collection on the adventures of a secondhand bookdealer which I can also recommend first - I'm sure the main participants here are aware of it but some people enjoying the thread may not be

The Batman Prestige Format one-shots from 1995 - Two Face , The Riddler (possibly also the penguin one from 1992) had pack reprint editions with a Bat-symbol in the UPC box on the rear cover - I have a couple of these so I will put a picture up soon 

The Detective 643 is on GCD with the 2 name / 3 name variants - saw it there a couple of weeks ago and wondered how it came about ; was only updated on the 08/08/21 though, was this related to this discovery? 

stumbled on it while browsing them - April 13th 1974

The first thing that popped into my head was the newspaper strip brick bradford - looks like his haircut  

https://newspapercomicstripsblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/09/brick-bradford/