 Carmine Infantino's cover art for The Amazing World of DC Comics #1. | |
| Editor | Carl Gafford #1 Allan Asherman #2–7 Bob Rozakis #8 Neal Pozner #9 Paul Levitz #10–14, Special Edition #1 Cary Burkett #15–17 |
|---|---|
| Categories | DC Comics news and publicity |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First issue | July/August 1974 |
| Final issue Number | April 1978 17 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
The Amazing World of DC Comics was DC Comics' self-produced fan magazine of the mid-1970s. Running 17 issues, the fanzine featured DC characters and their creators, and was exclusively available through mail order. Primarily text articles, with occasional strips and comics features, Amazing World offered a great deal of insight into Bronze Age DC corporate and creative culture.[1]
The bulk of the issues were edited by Allan Asherman and later by Paul Levitz and then Cary Burkett; individual issues were edited by Carl Gafford, Bob Rozakis, and Neal Pozner.
Contributors included Burkett, Ramona Fradon, Jack C. Harris, Nestor Redondo, Steve Skeates, Michael Uslan, Wally Wood, and Mark Gruenwald (in one of his few credits outside of Marvel Comics).[2][3]
- ^ Cowsill, Alan; Irvine, Alex; Manning, Matthew K.; McAvennie, Michael; Wallace, Daniel (2019). DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle. DK Publishing. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-4654-8578-6.
- ^ Eury, Michael (October 2017). "Amazing World of DC Comics An Issue-By-Issue Look at DC's Bronze Age 'Prozine'". Back Issue! (#100). Raleigh, North Carolina: TwoMorrows Publishing: 65–66.
- ^ Articles by Gruenwald include "The Martian Chronicles" (a history of the Martian Manhunter) in issue #13 Archived 2016-08-26 at the Wayback Machine and several articles on the history of the Justice League in issue #14 Archived 2016-08-26 at the Wayback Machine.