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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
In 1978, DC Comics implemented a bold initiative to combat plummeting sales: Give readers more story pages with a higher cover price, to better compete on newsstands. This 'DC Explosion' brought with it many creative new titles, but just weeks after its launch, they pulled the plug, cancelling numerous titles and leaving stacks of completed comic book stories unpublished. It quickly became known as 'The DC Implosion', and TwoMorrows Publishing marks the 40th Anniversary of one of the most notorious events in comics with an exhaustive oral history from the creators involved (Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Mike Gold, and others), plus detailed analysis of how it changed the landscape of comics forever! Date Available: 07/11/2018
BONUS REVIEW by "Doc" Schaefer
 Thanks to this soft cover, I don't need the wayback machine to relive a wonder part of my youth. A time when the world of DC Comics was literally exploding with sparkling talent and brave new ideas. New heroes, new back up features, which all lead to a tremendous collapse and the hard to find copies of Cancelled Comics Cavalcade. Filled with art, ads, and remembrances of those days, Twomorrow Publishing had done it again! I give it 10 out of 10 Grahams VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
In 1978, DC Comics implemented a bold initiative to combat plummeting sales: Give readers more story pages with a higher cover price, to better compete on newsstands. This 'DC Explosion' brought with it many creative new titles, but just weeks after its launch, they pulled the plug, cancelling numerous titles and leaving stacks of completed comic book stories unpublished. It quickly became known as 'The DC Implosion', and TwoMorrows Publishing marks the 40th Anniversary of one of the most notorious events in comics with an exhaustive oral history from the creators involved (Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Mike Gold, and others), plus detailed analysis of how it changed the landscape of comics forever! Date Available: 07/11/2018
BONUS REVIEW by "Doc" Schaefer
Thanks to this soft cover, I don't need the wayback machine to relive a wonder part of my youth. A time when the world of DC Comics was literally exploding with sparkling talent and brave new ideas. New heroes, new back up features, which all lead to a tremendous collapse and the hard to find copies of Cancelled Comics Cavalcade. Filled with art, ads, and remembrances of those days, Twomorrow Publishing had done it again! I give it 10 out of 10 Grahams |
