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[Jim Kelly]

Like with ALL-AMERICAN, STAR-SPANGLED had double 100th issues, first in 1949 when it was still STAR-SPANGLED COMICS. Then it changed to STAR-SPANGLED WAR STORIES in 1952 but ended up getting renumbered shortly after the name change (without a new number 1). So it got its second 100th issue in 1961.

[CaptCleghorn]

Apparently, some of CaptCleghorn's examples may not show up if you aren't registered with certain sites, soooooo . . .

I am sorry. I can see the covers on one of my computers but not on the other. Thank you, Major, for recovering my fumble.

[DevilBat66]

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The 90's cover gimmicks made for very memorable anniversary issues.....not. lolz.

[Jim Kelly]

MUTT & JEFF was one of the earliest titles launched by DC's sister company All-American, in 1939, and it continued on as a DC (National Comics) series hitting 100 at the end of 1957 (but cover dated January 1958); however, a few issues later it was acquired by Dell (as MUTT AND JEFF) and continued with the same numbering, and then was acquired by Harvey, 1960, which continued the numbering, so it reached 148 in 1965--essentially being published by four different companies over a 26 year span.

[DevilBat66]

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While I wasn't a fan of this era of the Legion, this was a cool cover.

[Jim Kelly]

Given the strange life of MUTT & JEFF at different publishers, a similar case is [EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS'} TARZAN, which started at Dell in 1947-48, where it celebrated its 100th issue in 1957-58--with the magnificent Gordon Scott on the cover; it then went to Gold Key in 1962, continuing the same numbering; after that it went to DC in 1972, again with the same numbering, starting there with 207. Marvel was the next to get the Tarzan license in 1977, but being the no-fun publisher they spoiled things by not continuing the numbering and gave TARZAN a new number 1 instead.

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[Güicho]

DETECTIVE COMICS #100 from 1945

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LOL so many of these firsts were just mundane non-events;
Robin getting punched out a canoe. LOL!
Superman following random sleuth.
Then just an excuse to do reprint issues.
The numbering was originally really a mundane non issue.
Yet if a book reaches 100 today it's like a celebrated miracle.

[byrd156]

LOL so many of these firsts were just mundane non-events;
Robin getting punched out a canoe. LOL!
Superman following random sleuth.
Then just an excuse to do reprint issues.
The numbering was originally really a mundane non issue.
If a book reaches 100 now it's a like a celebrated miracle.

That's because apparently new readers are scared of big numbers.

[Jim Kelly]

I don't know why DC was forced to renumber some of their comics like ALL-AMERICAN MEN OF WAR--maybe something to do with their mailing license from the post office--but they didn't go all the way back to 1, they went to 2 after 128 for ALL-AMERICAN. And they didn't make a big song and dance about first issues in the late 1940s and early 1950s--usually leaving the number off the cover if it was a 1--yet they would declare 100th issues. This is because the publishers believed consumers wanted a proven product--and high numbers indicated success. Readers would be skittish about buying a new title that hadn't been tried before--the exception being a comic like SUPERBOY, because he already had a successful series in ADVENTURE COMICS and he was Superman as a boy (the first issue also covered its ass by featuring the Man of Steel on the cover).

[Digifiend]

All I see is "See the original covers at www.comics.org". Please repost. Try grabbing the covers from the DC Wikia or Comic Vine.