Cancelled Comic Cavalcade

Monday I wrote a post called "Cancel Culture Calvacade"

Today, I am going to write about what that title references. 

It is an homage to two of the rarest comic books ever published,  Cancelled Comic Cavalcade. 

1978 saw DC Comics looking to bolster it's fortunes with a publishing initiative called "The DC Explosion" with titles getting expanded page counts and new titles being added to the line up. 

But bad sales figures impacted by bad weather in the United States led DC's corporate owners to put a hatchet to DC's plans and the "The DC Explosion" became the "The DC Implosion".

For more about the "The DC Implosion",  click here for my post from August 17, 2020.   

To establish a copyright on the otherwise unpublished material left by the wayside of "The DC Implosion", DC published a two issue series called Cancelled Comic Cavalcade which was inspired by a 1940s DC series called Comic  Cavalcade. The two black and white issues were printed by DC staffers on the office photocopier.  

The prices on the covers were a joke. The issues were distributed for free to the creators of the material, the U.S. copyright office and the Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide as proof of their existence. Only 35 copies of each issue were produced.  

Some of the material in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade was later repurposed for use in other books. For example the lead story originally scheduled for Black Lightning #12 was later printed in World's Finest Comics #260.  The OMAC back ups by Jim Starlin slated for Kamandi #60-61 would appear two years later The Warlord #37–39. 

I don't have the latest numbers but a set of both issues of Cancelled Comic Cavalcade was going for around $4,000 about 8 years ago.