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Justice Society of America house ad from August 1992

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House ad for Capt. Storm #1, May-June 1964, cover by Irv Novick

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1978 Action comics #484 and Batman #300 DC Comics House Ad

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1978 Power Girl in Showcase #97 DC Comics House Ad

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1975 ad for the various Superman and Batman titles from DC Comics.

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House-ad advertising the ill-fated "DC Explosion". In 1978, DC Comics attempted to recapture market shares by drastically increasing titles, page counts, and cover prices. The marketing campaign proved to be a failure and several announced and planned titles were subsequently quickly canceled, as a consequence earning the name of "DC Implosion" for the era instead.

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House-ad for Bat Lash (1968) #2.

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House-ad for Superman (1939) #212.

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House-ad for Green Lantern (1960) #65 and The Brave and the Bold (1955) #81.

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House-ad for Batman: The Sunday Classics, a 1992 trade paperback collecting the comic strips first published in newspapers in the years 1943-46.

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House-ad for The Flash (1987) Annual #7.

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A selection of house-ads for The Amazing World of DC Comics (1974), a self-produced fanzine exclusively available through mail-order that offered a captivating insight to the Bronze Age DC corporate and creative culture.

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A DC Comics house-ad running throughout titles with a cover date of June 1966, featuring their infamous go-go checks -- likely the work of editorial director Irwin Donenfeld.

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House-ad for the Zero Month event. Following the end of the 1994 event Zero Hour, every DC Universe title published a #0 issue retelling a character or team’s origins and featured the slogan “The Beginning of Tomorrow!”

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House ad for Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn from November 1989