I have decided to try something less ambitions and try for all DC's from 1982. Why 1982?

1982 was the year that I really discovered DC's in a big way having previously collected Marvel from 1978. I already have a good portion of them and they are still all inexpensive.

Rather than this just being a list of my new buys I am hoping this thread can become a flashback to the DC comics of 1982, discussing the artists, writers and storylines of the day, reminding us of those covers, sharing favourite characters and titles etc as well as discussing our 1982 collections.

If the thread takes off I will start a few for other years/companies as well.

To start us off here are is a checklist of all the DC newsstand comics cover dated 1982. Did I miss any? Also I need to check what promotional comics they put out in 1982 and will add these later.

DC Newsstand comics checklist (Cover Dates 1982)

Action 527-538 12
Adventure 489-494 6
All Star Squadron 5-16, An1
Arak Son of Thunder 5-16
Arion Lord of Atlantis 1-2
Batman 343-354, An 8
Best of DC Digest 20-31
Blackhawk 251-253
Brave and the Bold 182-193
Camelot 3000 1
Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew 1-10
Daring New Adventures of Supergirl 1-2
DC Comics Presents 41-52, An1
DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest 17-24
Detective Comics 510-521
Flash 305-316
Fury of Firestorm 1-7
GI Combat 237-248
Ghosts 108-112
Green Lantern 148-159
House of Mystery 302-311
Jonah Hex 56-67
Justice League of America 198-209
Legion of Super-Heroes 283-294, An1
Marvel and DC Present 1
Masters of the Universe 1
New Adventures of Superboy 25-36
New Teen Titans 15-26, An1
Night Force 1-5
Phantom Zone 1-4
Secrets of Haunted House 44-46
Sgt. Rock 360-371, An2
Superman 367-378
Superman Family 214-222
Swamp Thing 1-8, An1
Tales of the New Teen Titans 1-4
Unexpected 218-222
Unknown Soldier 259-268
Warlord 53-64, An1
Weird War Tales 107-118
Wonder Woman 287-298
World's Finest Comics 275-286

1982 Promo's

Atari Force Mini Comics 1-5
Masters of The Universe Mini Comics 1-7
Swordquest 1-3
Warlord Mini Comic 1
Superman The Computer Masters of Metropolis

22 Superhero titles

4 Sword and Sorcery titles

2 Anthologies

5 War Titles

1 Funny Animals title

6 Mystery/Horror Titles

1 Western Titles

1 Licensed Title

Earl, how'd you get the list? This sounds like a really fun thing to do, I was thinking I'd give it a shot (different year so I don't steal your buys, maybe '81 when I started really collecting).

I used the master list on

http://www.dcindexes.com/

and sorted it by year

then made a summary of the 1982 stuff.

Earl.