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The DC Collection Is COMPLETE.
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Metarog

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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 ?????

 

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

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Metarog

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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 ???

 

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.

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Ian_Levine

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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.

 

 

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EwanUK

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Ian,

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

 

June 85, July 85, Sep 87

1-7, 14, 17, 20, 22, 28-31, 37, 38, 42

Hawkworld promo

Black Orchid promo

Legion promo

Batman The Cult card

 

Picture001.jpg

 

Picture004.jpg

 

hm

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Ian_Levine

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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.
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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

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Ian_Levine

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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.
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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.

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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:
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G.A.tor

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 Originally Posted By: Detective27Kid

<img src="http://boards.collectors-society.com/images/graemlins/default/hi.gif" alt="" title="hi" height="15" width="25" />

 

Is that a "yes" ????

(thumbs u (I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the like graemlins...they are cool lol )
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 Originally Posted By: Detective27Kid
I guess I could have just said "yes" but I like the like graemlins...they are cool

 

 

 

Cover Number One

Thanks for posting that. I remember the "DC Explosion", and was excited that the books were going to have more pages. I was also looking forward to some of the new titles. I wondered for years what happened until I read the behind the scenes story in either THE COMICS JOURNAL or Overstreet.
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