DC Comics · DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #4 · 1971 · 100 pages
Grade: VG/F 5.0
Cover by Bernie Wrightson, signed and dated '71.
This is a 100-page reprint anthology drawn from DC's horror and mystery catalog — specifically Weird Mystery Tales material. The DC 100-Page Super Spectacular format was DC's early-Bronze answer to the oversized anthology market: no new content, just deep cuts from the weird fiction vaults, collected and sold at a premium page count. The stories are short-form horror and mystery, the kind of twist-ending supernatural fare DC was churning out in the early '70s before the Comics Code loosened enough to let things get properly strange.
Specific story titles and individual creator credits for this issue are not confirmed in available reference data. What is confirmed: the content pulls from Weird Mystery Tales, the format runs 100 pages under code number 32012, and the cover is Wrightson — signed, 1971, unmistakably his work even before Swamp Thing made everyone pay attention.
The DC 100-Page Super Spectacular run is short — only a handful of issues before DC restructured the format. Issue #4 lands right at the start of Wrightson's breakout period; Swamp Thing #1 wouldn't arrive until November 1972. This cover predates that by over a year, making it an early data point in the Wrightson timeline that collectors of his work don't always chase but probably should.
Condition VG/F 5.0 — .
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DC Comics · DC 100-Page Super Spectacular #4 · 1971 · 100 pages
Grade: VG/F 5.0
Cover by Bernie Wrightson, signed and dated '71.
This is a 100-page reprint anthology drawn from DC's horror and mystery catalog — specifically Weird Mystery Tales material. The DC 100-Page Super Spectacular format was DC's early-Bronze answer to the oversized anthology market: no new content, just deep cuts from the weird fiction vaults, collected and sold at a premium page count. The stories are short-form horror and mystery, the kind of twist-ending supernatural fare DC was churning out in the early '70s before the Comics Code loosened enough to let things get properly strange.
Specific story titles and individual creator credits for this issue are not confirmed in available reference data. What is confirmed: the content pulls from Weird Mystery Tales, the format runs 100 pages under code number 32012, and the cover is Wrightson — signed, 1971, unmistakably his work even before Swamp Thing made everyone pay attention.
The DC 100-Page Super Spectacular run is short — only a handful of issues before DC restructured the format. Issue #4 lands right at the start of Wrightson's breakout period; Swamp Thing #1 wouldn't arrive until November 1972. This cover predates that by over a year, making it an early data point in the Wrightson timeline that collectors of his work don't always chase but probably should.
Condition VG/F 5.0 — .
We use what the scientists are calling artificial intelligence to research and write our descriptions — it gives us more time to add books to our website and provide you with a wider array of inventory. We think Klaatu would approve. Details are verified but the robot does slip up. We're not infallible. Every book is graded by a human collector who has actually held it. If anything ever looks off, reach on out at robopictocomics@gmail.com.
