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    From Justice League of America #42 (February, 1966):


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    More Funny Animal Ads . . .

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    DC digest comics--circa 1984

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    Quote Originally Posted by Electricmastro View Post
    From Justice League of America #42 (February, 1966):

    I always liked these pages in the comics, where part of the page was taken up by a commercial, and the story didn't begin again for a few pages. Growing up with commercial TV, having a pause made sense to my brain. And it built up the suspense for the story. Nowadays, you probably couldn't get away with giving over part of the page to an ad--fandom would be in an uproar over how the artwork was "ruined" by this commercialism. But to me, that break is awesome sauce.

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    DC's self-description ad from their first comic, New Fun #1 (February, 1935):

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    Actually it was called just NEW FUN--when it began. Not NEW FUN COMICS. This might seem like I'm being picky, but it's important to me to make the distinction. The second ongoing title was called NEW COMICS. They then changed NEW FUN to MORE FUN, so the titles would be distinctive. And after that it became MORE FUN COMICS (on the cover and eventually in the indicia). Then DETECTIVE COMICS was launched, which then inspired the change to NEW ADVENTURE COMICS for NEW COMICS, before it finally settled on ADVENTURE COMICS. And all three titles used the same font for COMICS--which helped to make them identifiable as all being from the same publisher.



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    Star Hunters ad from DC Super Stars #16

    "There's magic in the sound of analog audio." - CNET.

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    One of the earliest advertisements where Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern comics were all advertised on the same page (More Fun Comics #84, October 1942).


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    Super Friends Comics subscription ad page (1979)
    Artists: Ramona Fradon




    As if they added two new flavors LOL!



    How did this crossover never happen?
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    I was cleaning up old paperwork and found a promo flyer from the Green Lantern Emerald Knights story, circa 1998:

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    One of my great regrets is that I didn't bother to buy most of the horror titles from DC in the 1970s when I had the chance to get them new off the rack. I was too fixated on super-heroes. But I think the best writing and art was in the horror comics.

    This is an ad for the horror titles (plus DC SUPER-STARS of Magic, which I did pick up) coming out in time for Hallows' Eve of 1977:



    Here's the Dollar Comics sized THE UNEXPECTED (with DOORWAY TO NIGHTMARE and HOUSE OF SECRETS now folded into the title), this issue on sale August 23rd 1979:



    The Dollar Comics format for UNEXPECTED only lasted seven issues. This subscription ad is for the horror comics when they were all back to 40 cent issues. If I had to guess, that was later in the same year of 1979:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Kelly View Post
    One of my great regrets is that I didn't bother to buy most of the horror titles from DC in the 1970s when I had the chance to get them new off the rack. I was too fixated on super-heroes. But I think the best writing and art was in the horror comics.
    While I bought enough of them off the rack back then, I have to admit not as many as I would have liked. I love horror/sci-fi just as much as the superheroes, but since the former were standalone and not interconnected with the other mags of that genre, they weren't as important to acquire like the latter comics (though I now have complete sets of all the scary stuff today ).
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    I think for folks wanting to check out DC's 1970s stuff, they're better off to read short stories from the anthologies (horror and war), because you don't have to know anything. I also think the writers and artists had a freer hand in those, as they didn't have to worry about continuity and the look of the character--there was a lot more room to play and try out new things. And telling a satisfying short story is an art in itself, just ask Alice Munro. Nowadays, I can pick up any old DC anthology (including romance and science fiction) and have a good time.

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    In 1966, when DC introduced the Go-Go Checks, they began the Direct Currents feature page, hosted by the Old Electrician (aka the Big E, Mr. E. Nelson Bridwell).



    This page continued for a few years, outlasting the Go-Go Checks, but was briefly retired, before coming back in 1970--again hosted by ENB.



    It lasted for a few more years that time around, this one is for comics on the newsstands in July of 1973.


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