AMAZING WORLD OF DC COMICS #2

Volume 1 Number 2 – September-October 1974 - Published Bi-Monthly by National Periodical Publications, Inc., P.O. Box 116 Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10019 Copyright 1974 by NPP, Single Copies $1.50.  Orders for issue #3 now being accepted.

September on Cover, rather than September-October

Cover: Kurt Schaffenberger illo of Cary Bates and Elliot S! Maggin typing at desk with various super-heroes (& Kurt, too) looking over their shoulders – Inside Cover:  Amazing World of DC Products, Pics of Guy Lillian, Debbie Ulrich and several products like the 7-11 cups, dolls, colorforms, etc. (Pics by Steve Mitchell, Text by Bob Rozakis) – Back Cover:  unpublished 1940’s page of Ed Whelan’s Fat & Slat – Inside Back Cover:  Amazing World of Puzzles by Bob Rozakis (crossword).

Table of Contents

Cary Bates and Elliot Maggin:  The Men Behind the Super-Typewriter, by Guy H. Lillian III – Page 2
Interview with Bates & Maggin with pictures, but none of them identifying which is whom…

Amazing World of Editorials, by Bob Rozakis – Page 8
Missing Editorial from #1!  Also an introduction to Mike Uslan, newest of the Jr. Woodchucks.  (missing from TOC is the mention of an order form for #’s 1-3 and on page 9 an order form for old Superman TV Show Stills!)

The Adventures of Superboy, by Allan Asherman – Page 10
Long lost television series with a description of the pilot, info from Johnny Rockwell (Superboy) and listings of the scripts that were written, yet never produced. 

Chuckin’ It, by Carl Gafford – Page 14
Beginning of regular column written by each staffer in turn.

Direct Currents – Page 15
September/October coming attractions.

House of Mystery Centerfold – Page 24
Unpublished Berni Wrightson cover!

Remembering, by Allan Asherman – Page 26
Kurt Schaffenberger retrospective.

The Reviewing Stand, by Carl Gafford – Page 28
Reviews of Dr. Wertham’s then-current “The World of Fanzines” and Jules Feiffer’s The Great Comic Book Heroes.

In Memoriam: Leo Dorfman, by E. Nelson Bridwell – Page 29

How A Comic Book Is Created: Part Two, by Paul Levitz – Page 30
Writer’s task in the process.

Wonder Woman in “Racketeers Bait”, by Charles Moulton & H.G. Peter – Page 33
An unpublished 12-page story from the 40’s!

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plan, It’s… Super-Van!, by Michael Uslan and Bob Rozakis – Page 45
An overview of the Comicmobile from DC which toured neighborhoods in New Jersey & Long Island, manned by Michael Uslan & Laurie Neu (later Mrs. Rozakis) who would sell comics, dress up as super-heroes, etc. and the story of it’s inception and subsequent – and very lamented by us Michiganders, BTW - retirement.

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