Cancelled Comic Cavalcade

At the San Diego Comic Con in July 1995, a friend gave me a photocopy of Cancelled Comic Cavalcade. Mine is a 3rd generation copy of the original, which was itself a photocopy. I'll be posting here (as I complete them) reviews of each new story in the issue, with commentary on what happened prior to the story, what this one's about, what happened in the "real" DCU because this wasn't published, and whether or not the material eventually saw print. Some reprint information courtesy of Bill Wormstedt and the Grand Comics Database.

If you're reading this, you're probably familiar with the so-called "DC Implosion", when in the summer of 1978 DC cut back many of its titles and shrunk others in page count. What would have been 18 issues of various comics that had not been printed saw "print" here, some for the only time. For more info on the DC Implosion, visit James Kosmicki's page at http://www.concentric.net/~Scotth/dcimpl.html; for more info on CCC itself, keep reading.

The title is a takeoff on the 1942-1954 DC title "Comic Cavalcade," which featured at one point or another Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Wildcat, Black Pirate, Ghost Patrol, Sargon, Red Tornado, Black Canary, Johnny Peril, Fox and Crow, and Mutt & Jeff.

The "Cancelled Comic Cavalcade" logo in the background and on the various pages is as close as I could get to the original logo without a scanner. The logo is © DC Comics, Inc., and is a modified version of the logo to the original "Comic Cavlcade" title.

See the Intro page for a sample scan from each story. I scanned the cover where available, otherwise it's the first page.

• Intro to Cancelled Comic Cavalcade

  editorials, contents and new covers

  by Gold/Milgrom/Saviuk

• Black Lightning #12-13 (including the Ray backup in #12)

  Black Lightning story reprinted in "World's Finest Comics" #260

  by O'Neill/Rogers/Nasser/Colletta and McKenzie/Barr/Fuller/Wiacek

• Claw the Unconquered #13-14

  by Michelinie/Tanghal/Smith and DeFalco/Tanghal/Smith/Kubert

• The Deserter #1

  by Conway/Ayers/Tanghal/Kubert

• Doorway to Nightmare #6

  Reprinted in "Unexpected" #190 (story and cover)

  by Burkett/Ortiz/Colletta/Kaluta

• Firestorm #6

  by Conway/Milgrom/McLeod

• The Green Team #2-3

  by Simon/Grandenetti/Flessel

• Kamandi #60-61 (including OMAC in #60 and Sandman in #61)

  OMAC reprinted in "Warlord" #37 with minor changes

  Sandman reprinted in "Best of DC Digest" #22

  by Harris/Ayers/Bulanadi/Buckler/Abel, Starlin/Rubinstein, and Fleisher/Kirby/Royer

• Prez #5

  by Simon/Grandenetti/Flessel

• Shade the Changing Man #9 (including Odd Man)

  Odd Man reprinted in "Detective Comics" #487 with changes

  by Ditko/Fleisher and Ditko

• Showcase #105 (Deadman)

  Reprinted in "Adventure Comics" #464 with changes

  by Wein/Conway/Aparo

• Showcase #106 (Creeper)

  by Ditko

• Steel #6

  Partially reprinted in "All-Star Squadron" #8 & 9

  by Conway/Heck/Milgrom

• Secret Society of Super-Villains #16-17 (featuring the JSA and Freedom Fighters!)

  by Rozakis/Ayers/Vosburg/?/Saviuk/Giordano and Rozakis/Vosburg/?

• Bonus! New SSOSV 17 (backup story) and 18 (lead and backup), never before seen info!
• Vixen #1

  by Conway/Oksner/Colletta

• cover gallery (11 unused covers with no interiors)

  "Weird Mystery Tales" #25 reprinted as cover for "Secrets of Haunted House" #20

  "Weird Mystery Tales" #26 reprinted as cover for "House of Mystery" #265

  by Kubert; Dillin/McLaughlin; Andru/Giordano; Aparo; Golden/Heath; Orlando; Kaluta; Sherman/Whitman

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