365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 350: Worlds will live, worlds will die...

...but hey, we're okay here on Earth-Prime, right?

It began with a year-long saga into the Watcher of Earth-1, the Monitor (he had to be color-corrected before you could use him, I think) peering into the lives of the DC heroes and villains, past and present, on Earths-1, 2, 3, X, 5, 6, S, Q, C, C-Minus, Earth-Haney, Earth-162 (home of Superman-Red/Superman-Blue), Earth-12 (home of the Inferior Five), Earth-28 (home of Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, and Bob Hope), and Earth-616, (home of the...hey, wait a minute!):


Panels from DC Comics Presents #78 (February 1985); script by Marv Wolfman, pencils by Curt Swan, inks by Dave Hunt, colors by Gene D'Angelo, letters by Ben Oda

365 Days of DC House Ads, Day 257: Alphabet Antics House Ads Week, Day 7

DC Comics alphabet house ads
Y: from Action Comics #114 (November 1947)
Z: from Detective Comics #130 (December 1947)


Bonus Saturday week-end Alphabet Antics wrap-up feature!:

Two-page house ad for Batman and the Outsiders in DC Sampler #3 (Late Fall 1984); script by Mike W. Barr; pencils, inks, and letters by Jim Aparo

(Click picture to Duke of Oil-size)

Bonus Saturday week-end Alphabet Antics wrap-up feature, Part 2! Here's some animals DC didn't think of for their ads:


Splash page from "The Alphabetical Animal Adventure" in World's Finest Comics #42 (September-October 1949), pencils and inks by Al Plastino

Bonus Saturday week-end Alphabet Antics wrap-up feature, Part the Third! And here's the Mystery Science Theater 3000 short that's been running through my mind all week and inspired the title of this feature. Watch out for the plagiarism from Ogden Nash!





Now we know our ABC,
Thank you for the ads, DC.