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SUPERMAN HAS BEEN RUNNING SINCE 1939 & REACHES ITS 700TH ISSUE. HERE'S A LITTLE HISTORY OF ITS PREVIOUS ANNIVERSARIES. SUPERMAN

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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE (TEN YEARS & A MONTH SINCE SUPERMAN HAD FIRST APPEARED IN ACTION COMICS #1, AT ANY RATE), WRITER BILL FINGER & ARTISTS WAYNE BORING & STAN KAYE REVISIT & EXPAND ON SUPERMAN'S ORIGIN. JULY, 1948 10TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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INITIALLY A QUARTERLY SERIES, THEN BIMONTHLY, & BY THIS POINT PUBLISHED EIGHT TIMES A YEAR, REACHES ISSUE #100. THE STORIES ON THE INSIDE ARE THE USUAL CHEERY EIGHT-PAGERS, ONE OF THEM IS CALLED “SUPERMAN SUBSTITUTE TEACHER”. SEPTEMBER, 1955 100TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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BY WRITER CARY BATES & ARTIST WAYNE BORING, IS AN OUT-OF-CONTINUITY "IMAGINARY STORY" (IN THE WORDS OF ALAN MOORE. NOTHING IS PARTICULARLY ANNIVERSARY-ISSUE-IS ABOUT IT. BY NOW, SUPERMAN IS STILL PUBLISHED EIGHT TIMES A YEAR, NOT COUNTING A FEW BONUS 80-PAGE REPRINT SPECIALS. OCTOBER, 1967 200TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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SUPERMAN CELEBRATES ITS 300TH ISSUE WITH ANOTHER "IMAGINARY STORY," ONCE AGAIN WRITTEN BY BATES (THIS TIME WITH ELLIOTT S! MAGGIN) & DRAWN BY CURT SWAN & BOB OKSNER. THE PLOT CONCERNS BABY KAL-EL LANDING ON EARTH JUST IN TIME FOR THE BICENTENNIAL, NARROWLY AVERTING A NUCLEAR WAR BETWEEN THE USA & THE SOVIET UNION IN 1990, & RETURNING TO THE PUBLIC EYE IN 2001. JUNE, 1976 300TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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SUPERMAN #400 IS A 64-PAGE SPECIAL WITH A TON OF STAR-POWER. BESIDES A SEVEN-PART STORY WRITTEN BY MAGGIN & DRAWN BY NOT-OFTEN-SUPERMAN-ASSOCIATED ARTISTS INCLUDING FRANK MILLER, AL WILLIAMSON, MARSHALL ROGERS & WENDY PINI, THERE ARE A BUNCH OF SINGLE-PAGE PIN-UPS BY THE LIKES OF WILL EISNER, STEVE DITKO, JACK KIRBY & MOEBIUS, & A TEN-PAGER BY JIM STERANKO HIS FINAL NARRATIVE COMICS WORK TO DATE, IF MEMORY SERVES. OCTOBER, 1984 400TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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THERE'S NEVER BEEN A SUPERMAN #500 (OR #600), AS SUCH: FOLLOWING 1986'S SUPERMAN #423, THE ORIGINAL SERIES WAS RE-TITLED ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, & JOHN BYRNE RE-LAUNCHED SUPERMAN WITH A NEW #1. DAN JURGENS' "THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN" STORY, WHICH REACHED ITS CLIMAX WITH #75, WAS ENORMOUSLY POPULAR, SO FAR #100 OF THE NEW SERIES, HE FOLLOWS IT UP WITH “THE DEATH OF CLARK KENT”. MAY, 1995 500TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE

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SUPERMAN #200, WRITTEN BY STEVEN T. SEAGLE & DRAWN BY TWELVE ARTISTS (INCLUDING JURGENS), FOLLOWS ANNIVERSARY-ISSUE TRADITIONS BY HAVING SUPERMAN TRAVEL TO THE FUTURE, & BY HAVING A PORTENTOUS TITLE ("THE LAST SUPERMAN STORY"). THIS SUPERMAN SERIES ENDED WITH 2006'S #226; ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN CHANGED ITS TITLE BACK TO SUPERMAN AS OF THE FOLLOWING MONTH'S #650. FEBRUARY, 2004 200TH ISSUE

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SUPERMAN #700 COMES OUT, WITH STORIES BY JURGENS, JAMES ROBINSON & BERNARD CHANG, & J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI & EDDY BARROWS. JUNE, 2010 700TH ISSUE

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