In 1978, DC Comics implemented a bold initiative to combat plummeting sales: Give readers more story pages with a higher cover price, to better compete on newsstands. This "DC Explosion" brought with it many creative new titles, but just weeks after its launch, they pulled the plug, cancelling numerous titles and leaving stacks of completed comic book stories unpublished. It quickly became known as "The DC Implosion", and TwoMorrows Publishing delves into one of the most notorious events in comics with an exhaustive oral history from the creators involved (Jenette Kahn, Paul Levitz, Len Wein, Mike Gold, and others), plus detailed analysis of how it changed the landscape of comics forever!
Contents
- Introduction and Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: Early 1976
- Part 1: Pre-Explosion (1976-1978)
- Interlude: Ring Out the Old, Ring In the New
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: Early 1977
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: Early 1978 (Pre-DC Explosion)
- Part 2: Explosion (1978)
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: June, July and August 1978 (The DC Explosion)
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: June, July and August 1978 (Unpublished)
- Part 3: Implosion (1978-1980)
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: Early 1979 (Post-DC Implosion)
- Bonus Gallery
- Interlude: Cancelled Comic Cavalcade: The Index
- Interlude: Whatever Happened to-?
- DC Comics' Lineup of Titles: June, July and August 1980
- Cancellations by Month of Publication
- Afterward
- References
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