Tuesday, August 12, 2025

COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY: Double (and Triple) Feature Books Acquired In The '60s, '70s, and '80s


Today's gallery concerns comic books that featured two or three separate features starring in unrelated stories within one funnybook. The category includes split books like Marvel's Tales Of Suspense, Tales To Astonish, and Strange Tales, as well as books like DC's Action Comics, Detective Comics, and World's Finest Comics, all of which supported a definite lead feature with a different back-up feature. I'm excluding books where the second feature doesn't receive a mention on the cover.

And before we get to that gallery, I've gotta pause and salute one split book I failed to pick up back in '68:


Man, I still wish I'd traded my twelve cents to snag a copy of that. One of the ones that got away, I guess.

We'll be sticking exclusively to the '60s-'80s era of acquisition I've established for these galleries. Today's selection includes books I bought new, back issues I acquired after the fact (but within the timeline), and B-stock contraband originally purchased without their covers. As always: These aren't actual photos of comics in my collection. But I did have each and every one of 'em at some point in time.

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