DC's Big 3 Cover Appearances From Action 1 (6/38) to just before Showcase 4 (10/1956) 3 3

[sfcityduck]

Am I missing any cover appearances? 

SUPERMAN TOTAL: 430

Action 1, 7, 10, 12-220 (212 covers)

Adventure 211, 216 (2 covers)

All-Star 7, 9, 10, 36 (4 covers)

More Fun 125 (1 cover)

New York's World's Fair 1, 2 (2 covers)

Superboy 1, 47 (2 cover)

Superman 1-108 (108 covers)

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olson 1-15 (15 covers)

World's Best/Finest 1-84 (84 covers)

 

ROBIN:TOTAL: 417
Batman 1-56, 58-81, 82-85, 87-101 (98 covers)
Detective 38-152, 154-158, 160-162, 164-178, 180-199, 201-209, 210-214, 216-231, 233-235 (189 covers)

NY World's Fair 2 (1 cover)

Real Fact 5 (1 cover)
Star Spangled Comics 65-108 (44 covers)
World's Best/Finest 1-84 (84 covers)

 

BATMAN TOTAL: 404

All-Star 7, 9, 10, 36 (4 covers)

Batman 1-101 (101 covers)

Detective 27, 29, 31, 33, 35-235 (205 covers)

New York's World's Fair 2 (1 cover)

Real Fact 5 (1 cover)

Star Spangled Comics 88-94 (7 covers)

Superman 76 (1 cover)

World's Best/Finest 1-84 (84 covers)

 

UPDATED!:  Based on below input - Superman Wins the GA (although Robin wins the Pre-Code era!):

Edited June 2, 2022 by sfcityduck

[Aman619]

real fact cover(s) too. there must be more!

[Robot Man]

Wouldn’t Wonder Woman be considered a part of the DC big three? 

[sfcityduck]

On 5/31/2022 at 5:41 PM, Robot Man said:

Wouldn’t Wonder Woman be considered a part of the DC big three? 

Not when it comes to cover appearances!

[adamstrange]

What about Superman Tim? https://www.comics.org/series/173388/

[adamstrange]

On 5/31/2022 at 8:27 PM, Aman619 said:

real fact cover(s) too. there must be more!

Real Fact 5 has Batman and Robin.  No issue has Superman on the cover.

[adamstrange]

More Fun 125 for Supes https://www.comics.org/issue/203825/cover/4/

[adamstrange]

This leaves out Superboy cover appearances in Adventure, which would add considerably to the Superman total.

Edited June 1, 2022 by adamstrange

[Robot Man]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:01 PM, adamstrange said:

Real Fact 5 has Batman and Robin.  No issue has Superman on the cover.

 

[Robot Man]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:02 PM, adamstrange said:

More Fun 125 for Supes https://www.comics.org/issue/203825/cover/4/

 

[Robot Man]

Does this count?   

[sfcityduck]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:04 PM, adamstrange said:

This leaves out Superboy cover appearances in Adventure, which would add considerably to the Superman total.

Yep, Superman/Superboy combined are clearly no. 1.  But, they are really two different characters.  Superboy's covers on MF, Adventure, and Superboy are not enough, to overtake the big 3 because he got started a bit late.

Superman Tim is not really a comic, let alone a DC comic, so I don't count those.  

[sfcityduck]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:10 PM, Robot Man said:

Does this count?   

Not in my count. But, I think that's a cool cover!  

[Robot Man]

On 5/31/2022 at 5:59 PM, adamstrange said:

What about Superman Tim? https://www.comics.org/series/173388/

 

[sfcityduck]

When I look at the list in the first post, what leaps out to me is that post D 38 there are 11 covers of Batman and Detective on which there's no Robin.  Everyone wants pre-Robin.  Does anyone collect the post-Robin no Robin covers?  

[Robot Man]

This is from 1954 Came with the Superman costume. 

[adamstrange]

On 5/31/2022 at 9:11 PM, sfcityduck said:

Superman Tim is not really a comic, let alone a DC comic, so I don't count those.  

It's listed as a DC publication and 21 of the issues included a new Superman story that made up more than 50% of the issue.  I would at least count those 21.

[sfcityduck]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:17 PM, adamstrange said:

It's listed as a DC publication and 21 of the issues included a new Superman story that made up more than 50% of the issue.  I would at least count those 21.

Hmmmm.  That seems like a reasonable argument. But what the stories about?  I've never opened one.  I thought they were essentially an ad publication.

[sfcityduck]

On 5/31/2022 at 6:15 PM, Robot Man said:

This is from 1954 Came with the Superman costume. 

That looks like a comic to me.  But it doesn't really have a cover.  And I'm a bit afraid of going in the giveaway rabbit hole.  I'm thinking of just sticking to DC newsstand publications as that is simple and clear.

[Point Five]

Cool list, interesting! Superboy #1 should definitely be added to the list of Superman covers (see pic), and New York World's Fair 1940 would get added to all three characters' totals.