Fanboy envy
Yowzer. Some dude has amassed a complete collection of every comic DC has published.
For those of you who have trouble visualizing the enormity of the task, that’s over 30,000 individual comic books! Amazingly, with the exception of a small handful of items toward the end of the quest, this collection was achieved the old-fashioned way with a lot of legwork and mileage, scouring comic shows and stores large and small from coast to coast. Almost no Internet usage was involved in assembling this amazing collection.
“No bits were harmed in the making of…”
Among the more esoteric items in the collection is the two-volume set of Cancelled Comics Cavalcade, published by DC in 1978. With a print run of only 35 copies, these books contain stories left over following the infamous “DC Implosion.” Printed for copyright purposes, these were distributed internally to creators whose work it featured. […]
The almost final book in the collection was the romance title Girls’ Love Stories #56, a nothing-in-particular issue of a nothing-special title that was simply frustratingly difficult to locate. Acquired in late 2002, this was thought to be the end of the long road, until the discovery of the obscure Golden Age DC comic, the Fat and Slat Joke Book. Once this additional piece became known, a copy was acquired within a couple of months, in early 2003.
I wonder if he’d be my new best friend?
I think writer Mark Waid has all of them as well. I have about 98% of them for the past half dozen years or so 'cause I get a comp box from them every month. :)
Posted by Elayne Riggs on July 15 2004 12:05
Doesn't 30,000 issues seem a little low? We're talking a time period of seven decades, from a national (really international) publisher. I realize there were only so many titles being churned out by DC in any given month, but I would expect there would be a lot more than that.
That said, I'm not going to research it myself.
Posted by CT on July 17 2004 10:44