Post the First

In 2010 DC Comics celebrated its 75th anniversary. For the first 25 of those years DC published two reprint comics. Then in 1960 the first of many reprint comics was published, Superman Annual #1, and for the next thirty years DC reprinted hundreds of stories in comics. In the late 1980s the hardcover Archives series started and in the 2000s the softcover Showcase series began. Except for rare exceptions, DC no longer published reprints except in these and other book formats.

This blog is about the reprints from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The posts will not be checklists as there a number of them on the web, my favourite being the Grand Comics Database. Rather the blog will be about my interest in these reprints.

The editors of the Annuals often modified the originals when reprinting. Here are examples from Lois Lane Annual 1 (Summer 1962) and Annual 2 (Summer 1963). The back covers of both comics reproduce the covers of eight comics with stories in the Annuals. Anyone familiar with the originals will notice something odd - seven of them have no price and one has a 12 cent price. Of course the original covers all had 10 cents. The price was clearly removed because it was supposed that the young readers of the day would be confused at a time when the price of comics had just changed to 12 cents. Why has one of the eight covers has been given this bogus price? 

Lois Lane Annual 1

Lois Lane Annual 1 back

Lois Lane Annual 2

Lois Lane Annual 2 back