Talk:Showcase (comics)

Page move

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1965 Alley Award

Can someone clarify what this means, please: "The volumes have received acclaim, including the 1965 Alley Award for Best Novel (an untitled story by Gardner Fox and Murphy Anderson in issue #55)."? The first part appears to be about the Showcase Presents umbrella-titled-volumes; but the latter presumably refers to #55 of the original series. So presumably that sentence be broken up and re-aligned..? ntnon (talk) 17:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Unpublished stories

I deleted the following section:

"Originally, issues 94-96 of Showcase were to feature introductory stories of Jack Kirby's Fourth World series, New Gods, Forever People and Mr. Miracle. However, DC decided to capitalize on Kirby's recent move to DC from Marvel, and launch the books as full series instead of using Showcase as the standard tryout.[citation needed] The last page of The New Gods vol. 1 has a large blank space towards the lower left hand of the page, which originally contained dialog advising the readers to watch for a regular series shortly, and to check out the next issue featuring the Forever People.[1]"

The refererence given is:

"The New Gods (DC, Oct./Nov. 1972)"

Here is the problem with the above paragraph. New Gods #1 does not have "a large blank space towards the lower left hand of the page" nor is it dated (Oct./Nov. 1972). The actual date is February-March 1971 as seen at the Grand Comics Database [1]. October-November 1972 is the date for New Gods #11 (the last issue) which contains a large house ad for Kamandi. Finally, Showcase was canceled with issue #93 (September 1970) [2] which is a full six months before New Gods #1. It's rather doubtful that DC would have sat on the Fourth World books for half a year if they were already done and ready for publication in Showcase.

Mtminchi08 (talk) 20:32, 17 October 2010 (UTC)