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HISTORY In 1978, rather than raising the prices of their books by five cents in response to Inflation , DC increased prices from 35 cents all the way to 50 cents, but substantially increased the number of story pages in each issue. This was promoted - along with the launch of new series - as the "DC Explosion". However, executives at Warner Publishing (which had purchased DC two years earlier) responded to poor sales figures (worsened in part by bad weather and shipping delays the previous winter) and instructed DC to immediately reduce their output to twenty titles of 32 pages each, priced at 40 cents. Industry observers quickly dubbed this the "DC Implosion". These abrupt cancellations left a substantial amount of finished and nearly-finished material that would not be published. Ostensibly to secure the company's Copyright in the material, DC staff members "published" some of these stories along with earlier inventoried stories in black and white on the office photocopier, in two volumes. A total of 35 copies of each volume were produced, and distributed to the creators of the material, to the U.S. copyright office, and to '' Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide '' as proof of their existence. The title is a play on the DCs 1950s Superhero (and later, Funny Animal ) series '' Comic Cavalcade ''. Contents ranged from completed stories to incomplete artwork. CONTENTS ''Cancelled Comics Cavalcade'' contained the following material: issue #1
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