Published in the mid 1970’s, the
Amazing World of DC Comics (AWODCC) was a fan magazine published directly by
National Periodical Publications – or DC Comics, as they could later come to
be known.This magazine is the
most important piece of Bronze Age history regarding DC Comics in existence.The index was put together by a group of volunteers from the Bronze &
Silver Age lists from the old egroups.com forums
(see bottom of this home page for a listing of contributors - if you wish to
view some of those old, non-working pages, use www.archive.org
to look them up). Also, we
have a wonderful interview with AWODCC veteran Bob
Rozakis coming up, reminiscing and
revealing behind the scenes information on this wonderful publication!
The magazine was printed on heavy stock paper and the covers were a heavy
construction paper/ cardboard-ish-type textured paper (almost a heavy, heavy
Bristol).The header and logo of
the magazine featured floating heads, respectively, of: Swamp Thing, Wonder
Woman, Shadow, Sgt. Rock, Capt. Marvel (Shazam), Superman, Batman, Kamandi,
Flash, Green Lantern, Cain, Aquaman & Tarzan.The logo itself (the Amazing World of…) was taken from an earlier
publication: The Amazing World of Superman, Metropolis Edition (published in
1973 by NPP, 909 Third Avenue, New York, N.Y.10022).Then a banner
separating the logo from the art read “ * COMICS * MOVIES * ANIMATION * NEWS
& REVIEWS *BEHIND THE SCENES *
”(* = stars - see the above
graphic) and then the date
& price.
There are graphics links for every issue to the front and back covers of each
individual issue once
you've clicked a link below to the text on each issue. Just look for the
highlighted words "Cover" and "Back Cover", which are direct
links to the pics. These graphics are provided via Tom Clark's now defunct
Amazing
World of DC Comics Cover Gallery on his Neal
Adams Home Page.
Since Tom Clark's page has "gone the way of All-Flash", we've
provided new copies that are now available with each issue and have supplied our
own Gallery!
We sincerely hope that you will
enjoy our offerings - E-mail us and let us know what you think!
Index Contributors This index began as a request on the Bronze Age listserv (at onelist.com
and then egroups.com, both now taken over by Yahoo! Groups)
for such an index on the Web.Seeing
as no one knew of one existing, Brian G. Philbin suggested that perhaps one
could be cobbled together through the efforts of Bronze Age enthusiasts on the
list and elsewhere (the Silver/Golden Age listserv
and Brian Philbin’s AOL DC Bronze board, “DC Comics/60's&70's/Discuss"
- this can only be accessed by AOL).Left
Coast Ross had put the original question out and also provided a link to a
gallery of covers put together by Tom Clark on his Web Page (Amazing
World of DC Comics Cover Gallery - if
you wish to view some of these old, non-working pages, use www.archive.org
to look them up).Tom
was kind enough to allow us to link to his page and graphics for the usage of
this index, as well as having contributed as a chronicler for this index.The following is a list of the contributors to this index, the issues
they covered and from which corner of the earth they “answered the call”.
Brian G. Philbin (Coordinator, Editor, Publisher, Webmaster) - Issues
1, 2, 7 and 9
