Dan DiDio: Cancellations, Changes, and Other Things to Come (Newsarama)
Comments(1) NRAMA: I couldn’t help but notice – Superman #226 is the “last issue of that numbering?”
DD: Right.
NRAMA: You want to explain?
DD: I turn this question back to the fans, because I’m not really sure what I’m canceling. We’re going from three Superman books to two: Superman and Action Comics. As of March, the numbering on Superman returns to its classic numbering which will be #650.
NRAMA: So it goes back to its pre-Byrne reboot numbering, since Superman prior to Man of Steel became Adventures of Superman.
DD: Absolutely. One of the things that I felt very strongly about was that our four premiere books, which I always feel set the style and tone for the DCU: Superman, Batman, Action Comics and Detective Comics should have their original numbering. They’re very special series, both given their characters and historically, and they should be treated as such.
[Looking at this excerpt from a textual scholar perspective, it could be a bibliographer’s nightmare. My head is spinning because “pre-Byrne” to me is taken as “before I could read,” but I think I follow it. The current run of “Superman” will end at #226 in February and then “Adventures of Superman” will continue with #650 in March, but its title will be changed back to “Superman”. Whew! BK]
category: Bibliography, Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics