COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY: Comics acquired in the '60s, '70s, and '80s, starring characters I'd first seen somewhere else

The theme for this week's gallery falls short of high-concept but is still pretty specialized: comic books starring headline characters that I had previously seen elsewhere. The "elsewhere" in this example includes team books, guest appearances in other strips, supporting roles in other strips, and appearances in other media (movies, TV shows, books, newspaper comic strips, radio, and--in the case of the original Captain Marvel--Super-8 silent movies). It does NOT include stars of backup strips who graduated to being stars of a lead feature (like Supergirl occupying the support spot behind her cousin Kal-El in Action Comics before taking over the cover spot in Adventure Comics). In most cases, I've made an effort to show the earliest starring cover appearance I recall owning, but that rule was not absolute.

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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