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Yes, please send the message with Marcello Vaccari's Facebook profile address, either to dc-archiv@gmx.net or as a private message here. I'm not that good with social media so I appreciate every help I get. In the meantime I did a thorough research on the website and managed to find 71 stories which were either created completely new or reworked from an US story. What I also noticed is that one story written by Bill Finger seems to be not reworked but original. I checked the splash pages of the US stories where I suspected this story to be from, but I haven't found it. I will ask Mr. Vaccari if he has a second source just so I can cross-check the information and not just have to believe what's written there. But in general I really am glad to have found the information at all. So thank you, vaillant, for making it possible to solve another mystery about the DC stories !

So, exclusive Batman stories too ? For over 40 years now I'm into DC Comics and the surprises still don't end - unbelievable. Vaillant, thank you for all your information. WIth what you wrote I was able to open a door into an universe where I still have to find out just how big the amount of exclusive stories is. I hope somebody has a listing with all those stories. If you can point me to the profile of Marcello Vaccari, I would ask him if he has such a listing. Maybe an incomplete one, so that I don't have to start from zero. La gatta - isn't she a beauty ?

This had nothing to do with you. I had the same problems three weeks ago. The boards made some changes which resulted in log-in difficulties.

I can confirm that for Germany. If one of you travels to Germany, you'll find lots of Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck in super markets or other places with magazines but no super-heroes. They can only be found at railroad stations.

Thank you for posting ! That's what I want to achieve, to get more experts and their knowledge to find out what happened in 1968. Let's see what @vaillant has to add. Since I only know about DCs, the story about Mexico and Gwen were new to me. I know about the German DCs from the 80s and the "og fredsbomben", but I thought that were the only foreign language originals. I wonder which success would have waited for a resurrected British or Australian Kara in the 80s. Archi

O.K., let's get to the facts: In the first half of 1968 somebody at DC Comics wrote an article which was published in Jimmy Olsen #113. The article says: This means to me: - Artists from Italy created new Superman stories. - These stories were published by publishers in Italy. - These stories were NOT published in the USA. Does anybody know something about these stories ? If you live in Italy and have a collection of italian Superman books from the 1960s, please contact dc-archiv@gmx.net Also, if you're Italian and know which publishers in the 1960s did publish Superman books, please get in touch. I asked several Superman experts, some knew about this but - although owning quite some italian Superman books from that time - never found a story which wasn't a reprint of an US story. If you read this text twenty years from now, please get in touch. Thank you. Bye, Archi

Hi, does anybody have a listing, where all published strips are listed from the start up until the end of the strip ? Searching the forum didn't bring any results. Bye, Archi

@L.E. Gill Thanks for your information about Impulse #10 ! Also for the source of #3. As you have seen from the list I sent you in March, I had it listed in the Best of '95 Set, but never thought of it being the DCU Variant. Confirmation of the Robin #14 Newsstand issue ? I can only offer this: http://atomicavenue.com/atomic/IssueDetail.aspx?ID=629975 Bye, Archi

Since up to now there wasn't a picture existing of Impulse #3, we only had the entry in Jerome's list. Now this entry is confirmed with a picture: Now the only book without proof to exist is Impulse #10. If somebody can shed some light how this issue made it into the listing I would be very grateful !

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It was, but not as a Walgreens. Thanks for the pictures !!!

your question about the Amalgam books which have a blank UPC box: There are six issues with Blank UPC boxes: - Amazon #1 - Assassins #1 - Doctor StrangeFate #1 - JLX #1 - Legends of the Dark Claw #1 - Super Soldier #1 They came with the Amalgam Comics Coll Set #1 and #2, which were released in 1996. --- Amalgam Comics Collector's Set (1996) No. 1 release date: 26.06.1996 includes: JLX #1, Doctor Strangefate #1, Legends of the Dark Claw #1, and a Skybox trading card. No. 2 release date: 24.07.1996 includes: Amazon #1, Assassins #1, Super-Soldier #1, and a Skybox trading card. --- At this time, the standard way of marking books included in sets with the "DC U" Logo was already introduced, so don't ask me why these books don't have the DCU instead of the blank boxes. Well, the obvious explanation may be that these books weren't DCs, but Amalgams. So marking them with "DC U" was not possible. Bye, Archi

Hi, a few years ago a boardie had the great idea to start a thread about the strangest place you ever went to buy comics from a private seller. I'm not able to find this thread anymore so I hope you know what I'm talking about or even have saved the link to this thread. It was very entertaining to read. Keeping his fingers crossed: Archi

@BuraddoRun Wow - great find ! I am looking for a copy in this condition now for years. Congratulations !

The article was a page in issue #113, nothing spectacular (except for what I quoted), probably written by E. Nelson Bridwell who was assistant editor at this time. It's basically just "The title's name in Spain is ..., the title's name in Norway is ..., the title's name in Italy is ..." and so on (with some cover pictures).