80 Page Giant Magazine

    (DC, 1964-1965)
™ and © DC Comics

Talk about getting a bang for your two bits. A forerunner of the DC 100 Page Super Spectacular of the 1970s, this aptly named, extra-thick reprint title picks up where the Giant Annuals of the early 1960s left off. For just a few pennies more than the cost of the standard-size comic book of the time, the twenty-five-cent cover price gave readers eighty pages of classic DC Comics stories. Most issues spotlighted members of the ever-popular Superman family: Jimmy Olsen, Lois Lane (with Superman’s boyhood sweetheart, Lana Lang), Superboy, and the Man of Steel himself. Others featured the Flash in a number of “treacherous traps,” celebrated twenty-five years of Batman’s adventures, or boasted the best of Sgt. Rock’s battle tales. The Spectacular series ended with #15, a World’s Finest Comics-themed issue starring Superman, Batman, and Robin the Boy Wonder, but the 80 Page Giants continued to run under various titles in the DC line until the late 1960s.

— Thomas Moudry
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#1

August, 1964
Cover Price: $0.25
4 copies available from $30.00 		Jerry Siegel, Otto BinderAl Plastino, Curt Swan, John Sikela, Jim Mooney
#2

September, 1964
Cover Price: $0.25
7 copies available from $5.00 		Alvin Schwartz, Otto Binder, Robert BernsteinCurt Swan
#3

September, 1964
Cover Price: $0.25
3 copies available from $35.00 		Otto Binder, Jerry Coleman, Jerry Siegel, Robert BernsteinCurt Swan, Kurt Schaffenberger, Creig Flessel
#4

October, 1964
Cover Price: $0.25
1 copy available for $55.00 		Robert Kanigher, John BroomeCarmine Infantino
#5

November, 1964
Cover Price: $0.25
3 copies available from $29.00 		Edmond Hamilton, William Woolfolk, Bill Finger, David Vern, Ed HerronBob Kane, Lew Schwartz, Jack Burnley, Dick Sprang, Sheldon Moldoff
#6

January, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
2 copies available from $50.00 		Edmond Hamilton, Robert Bernstein, Jerry Siegel, Bill Finger, Otto BinderWayne Boring, George Papp, Curt Swan, Al Plastino
#8

March, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
2 copies available from $30.00 		Gardner Fox, Robert Bernstein, Bill Finger, John Broome, Otto BinderMike Sekowsky, Gil Kane, Ramona Fradon, Sheldon Moldoff, Carmine Infantino, Al Plastino
#9

April, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
3 copies available from $24.98 		Gardner Fox, John BroomeCarmine Infantino, Frank Giacoia, Joe Giella, Murphy Anderson
#10

May, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
5 copies available from $5.00 		Bill Finger, Jerry Siegel, Otto BinderCurt Swan, John Sikela, George Papp, Al Plastino
#11

June, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
3 copies available from $15.00 		Otto Binder, Jerry Siegel, William Woolfolk, Bill FingerAl Plastino, George Papp, Wayne Boring, Curt Swan, Kurt Schaffenberger
#12

July, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
5 copies available from $29.00 		Bob Kane, Henry Boltinoff, Bill Finger, Edmond HamiltonDick Sprang, Henry Boltinoff, Sheldon Moldoff, Jack Burnley
#13

August, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
2 copies available from $7.00 		Otto Binder, Robert Bernstein, Jerry Siegel, Bill FingerCurt Swan, John Forte
#14

September, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
5 copies available from $8.00 		Jerry Siegel, Robert Bernstein, William Woolfolk, Bill Finger, Otto BinderKurt Schaffenberger, Wayne Boring
#15

October, 1965
Cover Price: $0.25
5 copies available from $4.98 		Edmond Hamilton, Bill Finger, Henry BoltinoffCurt Swan, Dick Sprang, Henry Boltinoff