The Grooviest Covers of All Time: Super DC Giant

Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Remember way back in 1970-1971when DC came out with a series of "annuals" (though the indicia said they were bi-monthly) that actually came out a few issues at a time each month? These "annuals" were actually a reprint series called Super DC Giant, and it did a great job of showcasing the variety of DC's line of comics at the time. Batman, the Flash, Supergirl, Aquaman, and Challengers of the Unknown represented the adventure/super-hero mags, while we got western, mystery, humor, and romance with the other editions. Fourteen sixty-four page mags (plus covers) for a quarter (not quite the deal of the twenty-five cent 80 Page Giants of the 60s, but what're ya gonna do?) over the summer of 1970 through the spring of 1971, made up mostly of reprints (but a bit of new material here and there) with covers by the likes of Neal Adams, Nick Cardy, Joe Kubert, Jack Kirby, Curt Swan, Murphy Anderson, and others. Issues S-13 through S-20 came out in July and August of 1970, while the second batch, issues S-21 through 2-26 hit the newsstand in November 1970, and January-May 1971. Despite the kooky numbering and wonky schedule, there was enough "love" for Super DC Giant at DC that they tried it for one more ish in the summer of 1976 (finally some love for DC's sci-fi sagas)--and that was it. Still, we got a ton of great reprints and cool covers for those 15 issues. Want more could a fan want from a mag? Now dig these cavortin' covers!