Bilnlisa

I think the reason you can't find the ones in the 1973 editions is that comics were in a weird price transition. Marvel especially. I was 14 years old and an avid collector of Marvel, but I was a Kirby fan first and foremost so the Forth World series was the holy grail for me. I bought all 4 titles: Jimmy Olsen, New Gods, Mister Miracle and Forever People each month and had a complete collection beginning in 1970 and ending in early 1974...I remember the price jump from 15 to 25 cents and then back to 20 was very controversial back then. Believe it or not, but 25 cents an issue was a big jump for those days and for kids like me that cut into the comic budget, big time....Marvel sales plummeted and they cut their stories from 19 to 18 pages and lowered the price down a nickel. DC kept theirs at a quarter and added reprints as filler. It was okay, they were mostly golden age Simon and Kirby stories that kids like me could never afford ( even back in the days before comics crossed the magic 500 dollar mark that a good copy of Action 1 or Batman 1 went for...) My friends and I just had to hustle a little harder at the paper route or now a few more lawns to come up with the cash....Kirby comics couldn't be missed! :)