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onlyweaknesskryptonite, thank you for your informative reply. How do the "DC Coming Attractions" fit into all this ? I know they started somewhere in 1977 (No. 7 is from June) and the last number I know of is 67 (June 1982).

Yes, my thoughts exactly. That's the reason why I turned to the marketing manager at this time. Since the production manager didn't know about this - and I still am sure he would remember this special doing - I thought that marketing had the idea to create these variants. So I wrote to Bruce Bristow and explained to him what I/we know, but he didn't respond to me (I wrote on October 3rd). Who else could know and remember about creating those copies ?

My thoughts exactly, and that's the reason why I contacted the product manager of this time, Bob Rozakis. I thought that he must know about these Mall Variants, since it was the only time it was done in the history of DC. I wrote him and explained what little I/we know about this project. He replied immediately, but had no memory of this special project at DC's.

John, I'm sure you did see the (only) information the internet provides for this topic ? If not, I quote it here: " In the summer of 1988, Superman was celebrating his 50th birthday in a handful of malls across America. My mom worked for Sping Hill Mall at the time. DC sent them copies of Adventures of Superman 443 with a special Spring Hill Mall imprint to give away (for free) as part of the mall’s party. The party also featured a Superman program at center court and a “Super Sidewalk Sale”. This was my first Superman comic book and it sparked a passion! "

Hi there, I started a WTB thread a few weeks ago and csaag was so kind to reply and offer me some books. This started a very nice communication and even the fact that I live in Europe didn't lead the deal to a stop. Csaag went way out of the ordinary for me to find out shipping costs and shipping ways. Apart from just saying thanks I can only recommend everybody to deal with csaag. I can assure you it will be a pleasure ! Bye, Archi

@Dormian: Do you know which books were in the 13 boxes he kept ?

The only problem I have is that I don't understand why DC Comics counted their Vol. entries in the imprint up each year. For example, Batman Family #18 is stated with "Vol. 4" and Wonder Woman #308 is stated with "vol. 42". Why did they do this ? For my personal database, I use the year the first issue was published and the entry "Vol." (see attached pictures). Each time the numbering changes, I count the Vol. one up. This means, Detective #934 is Vol. 3 or Superman #650 is Vol. 3 and Wonder Woman #600 is Vol. 4.

Yes, that correlates with what I see on the outside of the set. Do you know if this set was announced in 1994 before it was published ?

Do you have the information which issues were included in the "Best of 1994" Collector's Set ? If not, I can try to find my copy of it.

Thanks for the links ! I used the weekend to read through the material and to apply the solutions they suggested. Stuff like laser or microwave I ignored, I don't have these things at home. Diluted bleach may be an option, but I don't have any and wanted to try the other stuff first. Washing soda was what I concentrated one, and I used something similar: Ox-gall soap. Since I started with the denatured alcohol, the second step was the ox-gall soap. That was successful on the hardcover, but not on the jackets. I found a specific stain removal liquid in the bath room, which I was told to apply for cream stains, egg stains and so on. Most of the stains on the jacket went away with this, some were significantly smaller. Two stains were unimpressed by my doing. On I rubbed so hard that I now have a dent instead of a stain on the jacket, the other one I decided to ignore since my mood was fading more and more. So thank you for posting the links, I appreciate your help very much ! Bye, Archi

Thanks ! Does anybody know how these spots are called ? Searching with "spots" on the web doesn't give me any good results ...

Thank you very much for your answer and the link. Unfortunately, the suggested way of removal with denatured alcohol didn't work. I tried it, but the spots are still there. Any other ideas ?

Hello everybody, yesterday I got my copies of Flash Archives and Spectre Archives from ebay UK. I was happy to check the books until I found all those spots on the inner side of the jacket and on the outer side of the hardcover. Seems to me that the books got the wrong storage. Does anybody know how I can remove those spots ?

Since Kirk talked about the Venezuela issues I felt obliged to solve the mystery about the Germany ones. The ones Kirk got from me I bought from a lady who got them from her boyfriend. Her boyfriend is a soldier who had a subscription at a comic shop in Mannheim. Most issues I got are direct editions, the newsstand ones the soldier bought in the countries he currently was stationed. Some newsstand issues have stickers on them, and I think I read "Singapore" on some stickers. The books from one month were in worse condition than all the other months. When I asked her why, she said "He had them in Afghanistan". So that's it, have fun ! Archi

This thread cries out to be linked with this one: http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=2925876&fpart=3 Greg Theakston said that he " worked for Bob Kane for the last five years of his life ", in 1965 Kane let 19 oil paintings be made but didn't want to pay the original painter. I wonder where those paintings are and how they look like. And I wonder who did this painting here ?

Hi Wikked ! Yes, I'm pretty sure that the contest meant was in an issue of "Wonder Woman", probably a book from the 60s or 70s, when they did those things. And thanks for your link, I found the comment where the guy complains that he didn't get his prize, but he meant a contest with action figures and not the contest in the DC book. Thank you for your search and your reply !! Let's see if we can find what I am looking for. I tried it yesterday again, but with no result. Maybe I am trying with the wrong search words, I don't know. Bye, Archi

Hi Marwood ! Unfortunately, no. I checked all the responses in the comments, but there was nobody who said that he was the winner of the contest in a Wonder Woman issue. Remarkable is on this site, that both of the children of Weisinger responded to the topic. And most remarkable to me is that neither of them denied that their father was ... difficult. But Marwood: Keep trying ! Bye, Archi

Hi ! A few weeks ago I had a little time to spare and did a search on the internet. Search words were either "Wonder Woman" or "Mort Weisinger". Looking for something totally different I stumbled on a website. I don't remember the topic of the site anymore and if it already contained the subject of the contest of a certain issue of "Wonder Woman", but I do remember that one of the comments was like "Hi, I was the winner (or one of the winners) of the contest" and "I never got the prize" or something like that. Looking for other things I didn't pay much attention and realized only much later what the comment meant. Since then I tried to find the page once again, but I work on five different computers and couldn't remember at which day and time I was on that page. It's not that important but it upsets me that I'm not able to find the site again. Maybe one of you has more luck than me ? Bye, Archi

I'm not sure what you mean with "figure out", but I can tell you this: On December 14th, 1993, DC released "Mad Love" as a comic book with staples. Cover price $ 3,95 On July 11th, 1995, DC released "Mad Love" as a prestige format book - as first printing (see bar code) with a new cover. Cover price $ 4,95 Later printings: I have the second printing of the prestige book. Are there other later printings ? I don't know. Bye, Archi

Yes, the content of the book is the reprint of "Superman/Batman Vol. I (2003)" No. 7 and No. 8. The cover of the book wasn't printed as a cover before in the U. S., so you could say the cover is no reprint or you could say the cover is a reprint because of the reply above mine. Further information: The book was a variant cover in Germany and was supplied only to dealers. Print run was 499 copies. Additional there were 50 "publisher proofed" copies made, of which the OP has one (congrats, by the way !). Have fun, Archi

according to the book "Superman at Fifty" - and I quote from here on "Coddington also owns some of the original art from Action Comics #1" (page 180) Does anybody know if this is/was true ?

on the left is the original page, on the right side the page of the Famous First Edition. To me, they are identical - I see no difference between them. LDarkseid1, thank you very much for taking the time and put this picture up to the public. I appreciate your effort very much. Thanks to all involved in this quest, to give me an answer to my question. Bye, Archi

Sorry for my late reply, but I wanted to take the opportunity and bring this topic full circle with a next-to-next comparison of the real deal and the Famous First, but I had to be at home to do so. So here it is:

woowoo, thank you for searching the picture and posting it. The reason for my question is that I want to see if there are distinctions between the page of "Famous First Edition" and the original issue of Batman #1. Looking how all this red color of the cover is shining through I'd also say that this picture is from the "Famous First" reprint. maybe somebody else has a picture or maybe a poor copy of the original book and can spare some time to take a picture of this page ? Best regards, archi