GIANT SUPERMAN ANNUAL #7 (1963) - SILVER ANNIVERSARY ISSUE... (Updated)

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"Look... up in the space above... it's a bird... it's a 'plane... it's a comicbook!"  I've fancied owning this mag for a while now and finally managed to obtain one at a reasonable price.  John Byrne gave this mag a 'nod' when he drew the 'final' choice of cover for Action Comics #600, the Golden Anniversary issue.  I bought two or three of them at the time, and I thought it would be nice to acquire the Silver Anniversary ish to keep them company, so that's precisely what I did, Crivvies.  (I'm sure you all approve.)

Tell you what, let's cop a gander at the splash pages contained therein.  No, don't try to talk me out of it - nothing's too much trouble for my faithful readers.  All I ask is that you leave a comment in return - now that's surely not too much to ask, is it?  Remember that all images can be enlarged by clicking on them, then clicking again for optimum size.

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Incidentally, 'The Origin Of The Superman-Batman Team!' demonstrates just how 'elastic' DC was with continuity*.  In this strip, Bruce Wayne's parents are still alive (the Waynes having moved to Smallville) and Bruce is a similar age to Clark Kent, not the younger kid he was at the time of Thomas and Martha Wayne's death.  Bruce also displays an 'amazing mind' and is a 'walking encyclopaedia', as well as possessing an 'amazingly athletic body' (his own, natch) - attributes which weren't developed (over a period of years) until after his parents were shot, not before.  (Interesting that the mothers of Bruce and Clark share the same first name.)

(*There are at least three different versions of how they first met, though when one was later reprinted, some lettering was amended to change the story into how they first discovered each other's secret identities.) 

And below is the John Byrne cover from Action Comics #600 (1988) - the Golden Anniversary issue, clearly inspired by Giant Superman Annual #7...