Digitized Comics Unavailable (or in Alternate Locations) on DC Universe Infinite: A Directory

My understanding with the way Hoopla works (and this may be a City of LA Library thing) is that not everything that can be read on Hoopla is on each library’s contract as the libraries do pay for your Hoopla access.

The interesting thing about this is the assumption that everything on Bezolandia is what is digitized. I’ve owned Adventure Comics 105 for a long time on iBooks and it was not available for purchase from Comixology (which was still a thing when I bought it) and likewise, some of the Superman versus collections were on iBooks (and I owned those, like the vs. Shazam and the vs. Brainiac one) as was the collected version of Superman/Shazam First Thunder and all of these were purchased and were on sale from iBooks - whereas CMX has only the single floppies of the First Thunder mini-series, not the collected edition, and didn’t have those Superman Versus collections at all. Likewise, the World’s Finest by Gibbons and Rude (which I didn’t own but existed for a few years on iBooks), until these all eventually popped up on CMX, or now, just Bezolandia.

With respect to Hoopla, they will often have some digital material (which they are getting from DC, and for which DC is getting cash income from Hoopla), before they show up on Bezolandia or DCUI.

Also, I do agree and appreciate that you are keeping ‘track’ so to speak of the fact that the single digital issues available for purchase on say the old CMX are crappy digitized scans, not yet fully remastered, which in some cases is absurd, since DC has remastered ‘plates’ or originals from when the DC Archive Editions were released for print and sale (and, to my knowledge - an example of this being the earliest Wonder Woman, from the self-titled and Comic Cavalcade floppies, all of which exist as remastered versions on the hard cover collections of the DC Archive Editions, and to my knowledge, none of the DC Archives were ever digitized, just those DC Chronicle collected volumes (trade paper backs) of say the GA Superman or Silver Age Green Lanterns. And publishers, even if the content is repeated, sometimes “shot” (e.g. made ‘plates’ for printing) from one source material (e.g. Archive Editions) and then made different ‘plates’ from essentially the same material from different sources (Superman GA floppies for the DC Chronicle TPBs.

Either way, great job! This is an excellent resource, especially that you are keeping it up.

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Update (5/30/23)

Digitized Comics Unavailable on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In Amazon hoopla Notes
Superman: The Man of Steel 122 Steel: A Celebration of 30 Years https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C41KJ2RS https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15965981
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Update (6/6/23)

Digitized Comics Unavailable on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In Amazon hoopla Notes
Fann Club: Batman Squad Own title https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C4QBJ1DB https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15975228 Graphic novel

Creator-Owned/Third-Party IP Titles Originally Published by DC

Additions:

Title Issue #s Original Imprint Current Publisher Available In hoopla Notes
Lot 13 1-5 DC Entertainment Dark Horse Own title N/A Complete series
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Air is slowly being reprinted by Dark Horse.

Update (6/13/23)

Digitized Comics Available in Reprints on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In DCUI Link Notes
Captain Marvel Adventures 97 Shazam! (1973) #4 Shazam! #4 Excerpt (“The Ownerless Diamond”)
National Comics (1940) 67 The Flash (1959) #214 The Flash (1959-1985) #214 Excerpt (Quicksilver story)
Adventure Comics (1935) 179 The Flash (1959) #214 The Flash (1959-1985) #214 Excerpt (Johnny Quick Story)
Showcase (1956) 37 (“Metal Men”) The Flash (1959) #214 The Flash (1959-1985) #214

Highlight of the week: An entire Silver Age Showcase issue, the first appearance of the Metal Men, reprinted in the pages of The Flash (1959) #214.

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Another highlight: Flash 214 has a previously unpublished Jay Garrick Flash story!

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Update (6/21/23)

Digitized Comics Available in Reprints on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In DCUI Link Notes
All-Flash 30 The Flash (1959) #216 The Flash (1959-1985) #216 Excerpt (“Anything Can Happen”)

Note: A reprint of the story “Captain Marvel, Jr. Fights the Champ” from Marvel Family #25 was supposed to have been included in Shazam! (1973) #5, but was not. Thanks to @HubCityQuestion for the assist.

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More of a non-update, but the archival story from Shazam! (1973) #6 is once again missing from the digitized version of the issue, despite being included in the issue description…

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Update (7/4/23)

Digitized Comics Unavailable on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In Amazon hoopla Notes
Clark & Lex Own title https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C78J2RC6 https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16011141 Graphic novel
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Update (7/6/23)

Digitized Comics Available in Reprints on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In DCUI Link Notes
Action Comics (1938) 436, 461 Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen’s Boss Perry White #1 Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White #1 Excerpts (“The Super-Cigars of Perry White” & “The Toughest Newsboy in Town”)
Superman 80-Page Giant 2011 1 Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen’s Boss Perry White #1 Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White #1 Excerpt (“Old Men Talking in Bars”)

Doing a little clean-up with a title I missed from a while back…

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Update (7/13/23)

Creator-Owned/Third-Party IP Titles Originally Published by DC

Additions:

Title Issue #s Original Imprint Current Publisher Available In hoopla Notes
Air 11-17 Vertigo Dark Horse (Berger Books) Air Volume 3 N/A
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Update (7/28/23)

The following books are now available on DCUI, and have been transferred from the Digitized Comics Unavailable on DCUI list to the Digitized Comics Only Available in Collected Editions on DCUI Ultra list:

These graphic novels are now available on DCUI and have been removed from the Digitized Comics Unavailable on DCUI list:

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Update (8/1/23)

Digitized Comics Unavailable on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In Amazon hoopla Notes
Young Alfred: Pain in the Butler Own title https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9VHWDR6 https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/16116896 Graphic novel
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Alfred is not a pain.

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Update (8/8/23)

Digitized Comics Available in Reprints on DCUI

Additions:

Title Issue #s Available In DCUI Link Notes
Captain Marvel Adventures 18, 71, 79, 80, 82 Shazam! (1973) #8 Shazam! #8 Excerpts
Captain Marvel, Jr. 14 Shazam! (1973) #8 Shazam! #8 Excerpt (“The Vest Pocket Levitator”)
Marvel Family 1 Shazam! (1973) #8 Shazam! #8 Excerpt (“The Mighty Marvels Join Forces”)
Mary Marvel 17 Shazam! (1973) #8 Shazam! #8 Excerpt (“The Dog-Nappers”)

Golden Age Marvel Family fans, today's your lucky day...
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Update (9/10/23)

Removals:

  • Green Arrow (1988) #26-32
  • Shazam! (1973) #1-11
  • Adventure Comics (1935) #282
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Please note that only half of Adventure #282 is available.

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The other half, the Aquaman story, has never been digitized for a collection. Only the LoSH story has.

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Update (9/12/23)

Digitized Comics Only Available in Collected Editions on DCUI Ultra

Removals:

Title Issue #s
Adventure Comics (1935) 283
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Just a general note, I’m not going to keep bumping the thread with updates every week while we’re getting the Adventure Comics and Superman issues. In general, these issues may have one story in them that was previously excerpted in a collection or reprint issue, so it doesn’t seem substantial enough to bother with an update notification every time. Rest assured, if these newly digitized issues contain any stories that were previously digitized elsewhere, they are being removed from the lists.

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