So here’s a hypothetical for you: You publish the longest running comicbook in America. It features one of the most popular/recognizable fictional characters of the 20th Century. You’re about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of both the comic and the character, and you want to do something to commemorate the occasion, beyond a single “special anniversary” issue. What would you do?
If your answer is: “I’d turn the comicbook into a weekly anthology featuring second- and third- (and occasionally fourth-) tired characters and put the previous main attraction in a two-page back-up,” well, you were obviously working at DC Comics in 1988.
