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Retroactive Continuity: Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2

Posted on December 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
Anticipating the sell-out success of Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #1 (an easy call, given that all 35 copies were earmarked for the creators, copyright office, and Robert Overstreet (“… to show the world it actually happened.”), the DC staff assembled a second volume of unpublished material,...
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Retroactive Continuity: Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #1

Posted on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments
The aftermath of the “DC Implosion” in June, 1978 left piles of material stacked up around the DC Comics’ offices. The sudden nature of the cancellation of some 26 titles in various stages of production meant that stories scheduled for publication just a few days...
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WANTED: THE SHIELD(S)!

Posted on October 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Joe Higgins and Lancelot Strong as the SHIELD WANTED! is an article that gives me the opportunity to feature characters who are currently not being used, characters who are being used rarely and on characters who are being used but not correctly in comics today....
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