Reprints, More Reprints and Even Faux Reprints
Monday, November 18
By Bob Rozakis
(excerpt)
This is the chronology with, as noted above, numbers that are nowhere to be found on the comics themselves:
MILLENNIUM EDITION # 1 and 2 (ACTION COMICS #1; THE BRAVE & THE BOLD #28), 3 and 4 (DETECTIVE COMICS #27; SANDMAN [second series] #1), 5 and 6 (GREEN LANTERN [second series] #76; SHOWCASE #4), 7 and 8 (MAD #1; CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS #1), 9 and 10 (THE MAN OF STEEL #1; WILDC.A.T.S. #1), 11 (JLA #1), 12 (WATCHMEN #1), 13 (DETECTIVE COMICS #327), 14 (WHIZ COMICS #2), 15 (GEN13 #1), 16 (SUPERMAN'S PAL, JIMMY OLSEN #1), 17 (ALL-STAR WESTERN #10), 18 (DETECTIVE COMICS #38), 19 (WONDER WOMAN (2) #1) and 20 (HOUSE OF SECRETS #92).
ME # 21 (THE FLASH #123), 22 (YOUNG ROMANCE COMICS #1), 23 (SUPERMAN (1) #76), 24 (NEW GODS #1), 25 (OUR ARMY AT WAR #81), 26 (ALL-STAR COMICS #3), 27 (DETECTIVE COMICS #395), 28 (THE SPIRIT #1), 29 (JUSTICE LEAGUE #1), 30 (HELLBLAZER #1), 31 (PLOP! #1), 32 (ACTION COMICS #252), 33 (SUPERMAN [second series] #75), 34 (WONDER WOMAN (1) #1), 35 (WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #71), 36 (KINGDOM COME #1), 37 (MYSTERIOUS SUSPENSE #1), 38 (HOUSE OF MYSTERY #1), 39 (FLASH COMICS #1) and 40 (POLICE COMICS #1).
ME # 41 (SENSATION COMICS #1), 42 (PREACHER #1), 43 (DETECTIVE COMICS #359), 44 (BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT #1), 45 (MILITARY COMICS #1), 46 (MORE FUN COMICS #101), 47 (ADVENTURE COMICS #247), 48 (THE BRAVE & THE BOLD #85), 49 (SAGA OF SWAMP THING #21), 50 (SHOWCASE #22), 51 (SUPERMAN [first series] #1), 52 (ADVENTURE COMICS #61), 53 (THE NEW TEEN TITANS [first series] #1), 54 (DETECTIVE COMICS #225), 55 (MORE FUN COMICS #73), 56 (SHOWCASE #9), 57 (DETECTIVE COMICS #1), 58 (SUPERMAN [first series] #233), 59 (BATMAN#1), 60 (ALL-STAR COMICS #8), 61 (THE SHADOW #1) and 62 (SUPERBOY [first series] #1).
The "gold-cover" issues were chromium editions, limited to a press run of 7500 copies apiece. ALL-STAR COMICS #3 was the first to get this alternate treatment. It was followed by JUSTICE LEAGUE #1, SUPERMAN [first series] #1 and BATMAN #1.
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