COMIC BOOK COVER GALLERY: Comics containing both (then-) new and reprinted material, acquired in the '60s, '70s, and '80s

Today's gallery collects the covers of a few comic books that mixed reprints with then-new material. It used to be a pretty common practice to fill in the back space of a comic book with something previously-published; before royalty programs were initiated for reprints, these were pages the publisher had already bought and paid for, and certainly no one old enough to have read a story from years before could still be reading these juvenile things, right? 

(In the '60s, I started as one of those kids too young to know I was reading something my older siblings may have seen when they were my age. Any comic book story you ain't read is a new story. That adage still applied as I grew to understand a little bit of comics history, and to actively wish to see more comics from the past.)

As always, 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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