Pretty, pretty ads…
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UPDATED 2/6/25: After last week’s release of The Untold Legend of the Batman Limited Edition treasury, we’ve still got tabloids on the brain! Especially DC ones. So dig this piece from February 2022! Right on. — Dan
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I’m a house ad junkie and some of the best ever were DC’s full-pagers touting their treasury editions in the ’70s — Limited Collectors’ Edition, All-New Collectors’ Edition and Famous 1st Edition. It doesn’t even matter if I’m not that interested in a particular issue — the advertisements themselves add a lot of pep when you’re perusing vintage comics, as I often do.
So dig this selection of 13 faves. Not a comprehensive list, of course. But that just means I’ll be able to do this again soon!
Far out.
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MORE
— 13 New DC TREASURY EDITIONS We Want to See. Click here.
— 13 QUICK THOUGHTS: Why This is the Greatest BATMAN Treasury Ever. Click here.
February 19, 2022
I’m a big fan of the Limited Collectors’ Editions and Famous 1st Editions. They were being released when I first started reading comics so they’re sentimentally special to me. Thanks for sharing the house ads.
February 19, 2022
These ads are retro-awesome!!!
February 21, 2022
I bought them all when they first came out! (Except the Bible and Tarzan). Man, the only thing better were the 100 Page Spectaculars
February 21, 2022
Wonderful! I got several of these when they first came out (esp. the Golden Age ones.) Anybody notice the first Secret Origins of Super Villains shows up in a first season episode of “Welcome Back Kotter?”
February 6, 2025
Yeah, I remember that!
February 11, 2025
I just about fell over when I saw it! I was about fifteen!
February 6, 2025
Holy cow, it took me nearly 50 years to finally notice that DC used the same logo font for Spider-man and Muhammad Ali. I’m turning in my nerd card.
February 11, 2025
My gosh! I never noticed that!
February 6, 2025
My dream would be having facsimiles of all of these!
February 7, 2025
In house ads are great!! Wish you had reproduced the Christmas related ads.
February 9, 2025
I get goosebumps just looking at these house ads!