SUPERMAN GOES LARGE - COVER GALLERY...

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I find myself slightly confused when I look at these Superman covers, Crivvies, the reason being that I bought some of them while living in one house, and the rest of them after flitting to another - but not all in the sequence they were issued.  (I'm not exactly sure where I was living when I got one comic, as it fits into my memory of either house.)  So for example, I purchased #247 while living in house 'A', but bought #245 while living in house 'B' - but what do you care about that?  I just find it odd that my memory flits from one house to another depending on which issue I'm looking at, as some weren't acquired in their original order.

Anyway, that's neither here nor there - I just thought I'd strike while the iron is hot following the previous post and show you some more 52 page mags (though a couple of them say 48 pages as they obviously weren't counting the covers), plus a couple of 100-pagers for good measure.  Although not all originally obtained in their sequential order, I've displayed them numerically as that's clearly the sensible way to do things.  None of these issues are my originals of course, but I've now owned some of the replacements for up to 40 years, which is far longer (by an immense margin) than I ever had their predecessors.

Did you have any of these great story-packed comics back in the day, and if so, what memories do you attach to them?  Share your reminiscences in the comments section for the enlightenment and entertainment of your fellow Crivvies. 

SUPERMAN IN 25 CENTS, 52 PAGE, BIGGER & BETTER ACTION COMICS COVER GALLERY...

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Remember when DC Comics upped the price of all their mags to 25 cents and increased the page count to 52?  They weren't exactly a success with readers and were purportedly part of the reason for DC being overtaken by Marvel when it came to sales.  I thought they were great though, and superb value for money (even more so in the UK, where we got them for 7 and a half pence) considering all the back-up stories (new and reprint) that we got for our dosh.  If not for the short-lived 52 page line, I might never have got to read some old strips and learn of characters from the '30s, '40s, and '50s that were previously unknown to me.

There were 11 issues in all of 52 page Action Comics, of which I had only 7 in my current collection until I recently tracked down the missing 4 to complete the set.  "This calls for a celebration!" I thought, and decided to present you Crivvies with a cover gallery of the full run.  The 7 I already had I've owned for decades and were replacements for my originals bought back in the day (early '70s), so I don't know why it's taken me so long to get around to buying the rest of them.  However, I've finally accomplished it and can now share the covers with you here.  Remember any of them?  Tell us about it in the comments section.

Note that the old 'attention grabber' of featuring Clark and Superman as separate individuals has been utilised on 2 covers out of the 11.  This was a popular sales ploy by DC at the time, which presumably increased sales of such issues, hence it being repeated every now and again.

This ish and the next one say 48 pages - obviously not counting the covers

Now we have 52 - well it sounds better value for money than 48, doesn't it?