Monstro Posted January 8, 2007 Share Posted January 8, 2007 damit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimatevenom Posted January 9, 2007 Share Posted January 9, 2007 look at this sweet book i got in the mail today from october. thanks man \ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Those old 100-pagers are a real nostalgia item for me. Here's some clickable thumb-nails of my BATMAN and BRAVE & BOLD 100-pagers. Only one of them is graded by CGC which came in at an 8.5. Looks better than that but hey, hard to tell without cracking the case open. I'll get around to posting the rest of my 100 pagers, including my complete run of DC-4 to DC-22...yes. including an original DC-5 Love Stories. DC-8 is shown here as BATMAN 238. Hope I'm posting these right.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Just in from CGC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MutantKeys Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Just in from CGC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Sweet book there, Greggy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Sweet book there, Greggy! Thanks, show us more of yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 Thanks Greggy, I'll do that unfortunately only the one book (so far) is CGC graded. Some appear to be CGC-worthy but alas, others do not. So, being new to these CGC boards, does it really matter if the scans are of non-CGC-graded books? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greggy Posted January 11, 2007 Share Posted January 11, 2007 No, most of the scans that are posted here aren't CGC graded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icefires Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 Just in from CGC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icefires Posted January 11, 2007 Author Share Posted January 11, 2007 Why don't you sell me your leftovers cheap so I can change my name to Avis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkeyman Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Just got this one on eBay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grider67 Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Real nice Monkeyman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Here's my run from DC-4 to DC-22. Some are in really crappy condition while others are almost stellar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted January 12, 2007 Share Posted January 12, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstro Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 anyone know why they started with #4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NSPhillips Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 From this site: http://www.dcindexes.com/giants/100page.php BRONZE AGE GIANTS : DC 100-PAGE SUPER SPECTACULAR (SERIES "DC") 1971-1975 In 1971, DC changed the format of their standard comics from 32 pages for 15¢ to 48 pages for 25¢. This conflicted with each of DC's existing giant series (Series "G", DC Special, Super DC Giant, and 25¢ Series) which were already 25¢ for 64 pages. Rather than raise the price of their 64 page giants, DC pioneered a new format the 100-Page Spectacular, 96 squarebound pages + covers for 50¢. (Note: The last 4 issues of Series "G" were 64 pages for 35¢ since they were stuck between formats during the transition.) Like Super DC Giant, the numbering system of the new 100-Page Spectaculars was confounding. The series started with #4 (Weird Mystery Tales). Issues #1-3 do not exist. Perhaps as Jon McClure hypothesized in Comic Book Marketplace #69, #4 actually stood for Vol. 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zonker Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 More on John McClure's theory... Way back in #69, July 1999, a fellow by the name of John McClure had an article on all the DC Giants. His thesis is that the 100 Page Super-Spectaculars started as DC-4 because this was "Volume 4" in DC's experiments in Giant-Size books. John believes: Volume 1 was the original 80-Page Giants Volume 2 was the subsequent 68-Page Giants Volume 3 was the "Super DC Giant" Series, which began with S-13. John believes this was some sort of reverse-code for Volume 3, Number 1. Volume 4 would be the 100-Page Super-Specs Then, when DC introduced the Treasury books, they started with the Rudolph one-shot, which could be thought of as Vol 1 Number 1. Then the first Treasury with an issue number is denoted by DC as C-21, which John de-codes as Vol 2, Number 1. It may seem that John is reaching here, but it makes about as much sense as any other explanation for why first issues pop up with notations like DC-4, S-13, C-21. My only suggestion is that John McClure's split between Vol 1 and 2 is unlikely. I would imagine either: Volume 1 is the 80-Page Giant series in its own title (#1-#15) and Volume 2 is everything (80-Page, 68-Page, 52-Page) that continued on in the numbering of the regular series titles; or Volume 1 is the collection of pre-80-Page Giant #1 one-shots (e.g. Superman Annuals 1- 8, Sgt. Rock's Prize Battle Tales, the original Secret Origins book from 1961, etc.) and Volume 2 is the collection of 80-68-52-Page Giants, both in its own series and later contained in the numbering of its host series). Whew! Z. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamstrange Posted January 13, 2007 Share Posted January 13, 2007 Absent some information from DC, I'll continue to regard this question as unanswered. McClure seems to be stretching things quite a bit to fit into the numbering scheme that they actually used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAMPER49 Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Here's more of my 100-pagers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
