 Today we're gonna be taking a look at the DC vault a museum in a book featuring rare collectibles from the DC universe Hey guys, welcome back to come again TV. We're all geek culture collides and if you're new to the channel Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos today on the show We're taking a look at the DC vault a museum in a book featuring rare DC collectibles from the DC universe as You can see here. We it's a it's a Hardback hardbound book and inside it's got Not your standal standard binder, but it still has spiral rings holding everything inside you have a nice image of the Alex Ross Designed cover of the Justice League. You got the flash Aqua man Superman Batman Wonder Woman the atom Captain Marvel Shazam Red tornado green arrow Martian manhunter plastic man Hawk woman elongated man Zetana black canary and I'm not sure who that is in the background Martin Pasco forward by Paul Leavitts What an absolutely marvelous book it gives the lucky reader a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to relive the most exciting eras in comic done Stanley explore the hidden treasures of the DC universe in this remarkable collection in 1935 popular culture was forever transformed when DC Comics published the first book of all-new original comic material To the delight of millions of readers everywhere the modern comic book was born and from its pages came leaping in exhilarating cast of characters now the DC vault unlocks DC Comics most fascinating secrets and deeply buried treasures presenting a colorful array of historic and never before published memorabilia Including early sketches covers memos press materials and much more from a working reproduction of a 1977 of a 1942 Junior Justice Society of America decoder to the original pencils and inks for a Wonder Woman comic book This dazzling chronicle contains more than 25 plastic encased archival pieces for readers to pull out and examine all While learning about the artists writers and world-famous superheroes that make up the DC universe Whether you've been collecting Superman comics since the 1930s or have just discovered the amazing Sandman saga You'll rev you'll revel in this vibrant Treasury Martin Paske is a veteran writer and editor for an array of media including comics Nonfiction and live and animated television his work in comics has been most closely associated with DC And he has helped translate many comic book properties to the small screen Including Batman the animated series for which he won a 1993 daytime Emmy Award Paul Levitz Entered the comics industry in 1971 as the editor publisher of The comic reader the first mass circulation comic Fanzine he be a he began contributing to DC as a free rent Freelance writer and went on to write most of the classic DC characters Levitz joined the editorial staff of DC in 1973 as an assistant editor and shifted to the business side in 1980 he has been DC's president and publisher since 2002 copyright of the DC vault is 2008 by DC Comics all Characters names and related elements are trademarks of DC Comics all rights reserved. All right, so let's go ahead Take a look inside. I will tell you guys. I've had this for a while. It's a little beat up. It's been in storage It's been packed away. It's been in basements all that So it's not in the best condition It pages were stuck together from water damage, whatever But some the most important stuff is still intact So as you can see here, you have all and all American publication DC a Superman publication DC all kinds of different DC Comics logos there you have a look inside the Batcave during the 1960s two different Batmobiles you have an image there of Wonder Woman kicking some Greco Roman guard or whatever So let's go ahead and We'll skip through all this other stuff as you can see Pictures of Superman whatnot. I will skip through some of the a lot of this stuff and go straight into Some of the collectible Reproductions vintage Batman style mask See You put your string in there and tie it off and you'd be able to wear it like a mask The nose was cut out so that you you know, it didn't damage the Damage the mask at all whenever you put it on and that's what the back would look like I believe it you would cut it out from the comic So that's pretty cool And it says here Batman mask circa 1943 this promotional mask was created for the Philadelphia record newspaper On the back it announces the Batman and Robin Daily and Sunday newspaper strips. All right, we have here Wonder Woman from sensation comics It was originally a button the Wonder Woman button this rare button reproduced here as a sticker was offered in sensation comics number five May 1942 so Guess I could peel the back off here and stick the sticker somewhere, but I'll leave it as is Keep it protected there We have a Justice junior Justice Society of America decoder circa in 1942 to 1944 Not super familiar of how these decoders work You got Johnny thunder Hawkman Superman Batman the flash Green Lantern Wonder Woman Adam Dr. Fate Starman Specter Dr. Midnight Sandman and then back to Johnny Thunder Turn the small disc underneath until the code character appears in the window above for example Turn until you come to the code Wonder Woman Hold both discs firmly so neither will move and turn to reverse side Note that this Wonder Woman Follow the same automatic procedure for each of the 12 other codes All right, so it's set on Johnny Thunder now so as Johnny Thunder Each of these symbols represents one of these letters and then if we turn it to say Batman the codes will represent a different letter The junior Justice Society made its debut in an ad in all-star comics number 14 December 1942 to January 1943 readers could send in 15 cents and receive a membership kit That included a welcome letter from Wonder Woman a badge this cardboard decoder and four-page war-bond comic And a membership certificate seen on page 51, so we'll put that back in We'll find another All right Superman Tim store booklet March 1944 the Superman Tim club was sponsored by Clothing stores from 1942 to 1950 a monthly 16 page giveaway magazine Featured new articles and activities. All right, so we have what's happening in this store If you can't read the secret code asked for a membership card at your Superman Tim store and learn how So I'm not sure. I don't think the Justice Society decoder will work with this. I think you'd have to actually get a Superman decoder some nice vintage style artwork Very cool Here we go Superman's buddy booklet in 1954 These are printer proofs also known as blue lines For a booklet that was packaged with a Superman children's costume Produced by fun time play where yes Superman's buddy Says Jimmy. I don't think that's supposed to be Jimmy Olsen though. It seems a little young to be Jimmy Olsen nice comic Not bad. I wish I still had my Adam West Batman autograph from back in the 80s when he went and toured the American malls and Autograph pictures for people. I had it for the longest time and During several moves Which I still had it is very cool meeting Adam West From the Batcave best wishes Batman and Robin Postcard looks like perhaps in an effort to bolster sagging sales of the Batman titles in the late 1950s DC created it this promotional postcard Featuring the Cape Crusader the brave and the bold number 43 August September in 1962 cover pencils by Joe Kubert Nice little design of Hawkman on the cover Pretty cool. This was vintage vintage Hawkman Got mr. Mitsuplik there and what appears to be Lex Luthor You got Brainiac Parasites Yeah, I can't really tell who that is Superman land plans two-sided Neil Adams created these elegant drawings of planned attractions for a Superman land amusement park Including Smallville a rocket trip To Krypton and a tour of the Fortress of Solitude The planned site a town in southern Illinois called what else Metropolis? The project was never greenlit. That would have been pretty cool but now Metropolis does have the Superman Museum and they do have hold the Superman celebration every year I believe it's in July or August. I've been wanting to go for quite some time, but It's right during the height of my work season It's like a never quite get away and it's about three maybe four hours south of us National periodical publications incorporated Superman DC national comics Frequently asked questions letter early 1970s everything or at least almost everything The average reader would want to know about DC Comics and its characters was summarized on this two-page letter sent To a young fan named Paul Lovitz Shazam is coming Shazam cellophane button the launch of DC's new Shazam Comic in 1972 was heralded with this four-inch ceramic button Reproduced here as a sticker. That's pretty cool. I always liked Shazam Ragman number one original artwork by Joe Kubert August September 1976 Rory Reagan was a fascinating character scripted by Robert Kaniger and illustrated by Kubert who worked in a Gotham City pawn shop called rags and tatters After criminals killed his father He discovered a box of multi-colored rags that magically jumped onto his skin and transformed him Into the ragman for those of you who remember ragman was a central character of the Arrow TV series last season I Believe it was last season no is He has two seasons ago. Maybe it was during the Damian dark storyline, which I think was two seasons ago Reading is strength of Wonder Woman bookmark Wonder Woman bookmark in 1987 Wonder Woman did her part to promote literacy with this laminated bookmark DC moving notice 1980 this fold-out notice was created to announce the company's new address at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City Say have you heard the news news? What news? The big news about DC Comics. I hope it's nothing serious Serious it sure is DC is moving That's right as of December 3rd our new address is 666 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York 103 it's just across the street from our old offices Our new general phone number is 212 484 2800 see you there Why am I always the last one to know these things? Pretty cool. I'm not gonna unfold it all the way, but that's pretty cool DC crisis items in 1984 85 DC's crisis on infinite Earth storyline was a huge event and it also generated a huge amount of paperwork Among the stacks of memos and letters from DC writers and editors or these notes a request a biggie to kill Supergirl and a list of crisis characters and dimensions That's pretty much how they decided to kill off Supergirl in crisis on infinite Earths Additional DC crisis items in 1984 85 Enclosed are two memos sent during the resolution of the crisis on infinite Earth storyline One an update on the pivotal villain of the series the monitor The other a pondering on where to place a post-crisis Jonah Hex You want to read it? Feel free to pause My throat starting to get a little dry guys Before editing this video is currently at 24 minutes 25 seconds History of DC universe poster 1987 the poster was created for graffiti designs history of the DC universe hardcover edition Also printed inside the book as a trifold page featuring over 50 artists Work and signatures readers could send in a postcard to request one of the limited run of 10,000 copies of the poster. We'll start here and we'll go over the trinity Pretty cool. See if I can get this folded back up the way and I think we'll end With this one here That'd be a good place to end it Wonder Woman number 63 June 1992 original original cover pencils and cover inks by Brian Boland So here we have the original pencil drawing Of course not original copy, but that's the pencil drawing and here Is the inked version nice image of Wonder Woman holding her lasso of truth and since it's Christmas time We'll go ahead and take a look At this we'll end it with this one here DC Comics holiday card 1996 Alice rocks Alex Ross painted this Christmas scene of Superman and Lois Lane flying over Metropolis I've always really liked Alex Ross's artwork It just pops off the page Very very nice So there you have it guys a Summarized look at the DC vault by Martin Pasco forward by Paul Levitts a Museum in a book featuring rare collectibles from the DC universe My mom picked this up for me several years ago. I've glanced through it the time or two I have not read the whole thing That's gonna be that's something I'll do another time But I have looked over all the different All the different Special inclusions in there that we just took a look at today. So If you enjoyed this video guys, make sure you hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos I'm Shannon for Comic-En TV Take care