So this Showcase cuts out just before Batman #189?

Rats.

That is the only issue of Batman and Detective Comics from this period I don't have in my collection.

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I guess I always equated the Giants to a once-a-year Annual. I had no idea they came out twice a year.


The Superman "Annuals" also came out twice a year in the early 1960s!

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Batman # 208 in Nov. 1968 actually had a new framing sequence by Gil Kane around the reprints.


By Kane and (Jack) Abel, to be more precise!:lol

It will be interesting to see how DC how handle this issue when the time comes.