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813:. He came to my desk and said, "Go get the rest of your pals and bring them to my office". So I went to my compatriots and said, "Sol wants to have a Junior Woodchucks meeting". I was making a joke, using the name of the faux-Boy Scouts that Huey, Dewey and Louie of Donald Duck fame belonged to. But the name stuck...and we became DC's Junior Woodchucks". 26: 891:
I guess the most infamous "lost" DC treasury comic was the ambitious King Arthur book. Intended as four-part series by Gerry Conway and Nestor Redondo, the book was heavily promoted in the seventh issue of DC's self-published fanzine,
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of the mid-1970s. Running 17 issues, the fanzine featured DC characters and their creators, and was exclusively available through
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was a key contributor to the zine, doing editing, writing, production work and color separations.
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Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019).
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and her alter-ego was renamed "Berta Harris" after her creator. She was introduced in
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Back in the very early days of our careers at DC Comics, then VP/Production Manager
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occasionally featured previously unpublished stories and artwork, including:
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decided that we "kids" should put together a company-backed fanzine called
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Articles by Gruenwald include "The Martian Chronicles" (a history of the
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sponsored character-design contests that resulted in three winners:
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The bulk of the issues were edited by Allan Asherman and later by
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In addition to the 17 regular issues, in 1976 DC published an
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on the east and west sides of the bay, thus placing Gotham in
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fan Robert Harris. The character's name was later changed to
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with the potential, like him, to become comics professionals
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conceived of the idea of a DC "pro-zine", and assigned
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An Issue-By-Issue Look at DC's Bronze Age 'Prozine'".
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The premiere issue contained the following features:
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was co-edited by a group of fellow young fans-turned-
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Index


Carmine Infantino
Editor
Carl Gafford
Bob Rozakis
Neal Pozner
Paul Levitz
Cary Burkett
DC Comics
DC Comics
DC Comics
fan magazine
mail order
Bronze Age
Paul Levitz
Cary Burkett
Carl Gafford
Bob Rozakis
Neal Pozner
Ramona Fradon
Jack C. Harris
Nestor Redondo
Steve Skeates
Michael Uslan
Wally Wood
Mark Gruenwald
Marvel Comics
Sol Harrison
Bob Rozakis
comic book letter columns

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