Superman 28 Overseas Edition for Armed Forces 1 1

[Cpt Kirk]

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a CGC graded 4.0 copy of Superman 28 Overseas Edition recently.  I've been looking for this comic book for more than 30 years, so I bought the book the first chance I got (and then immediately broke it out of the CGC case when it arrived so that I could look at the inside).

As far as I know, there are only a very few surviving copies of these Overseas Editions and I have't seen any details written up on the internet about the Overseas Edition of Superman 28.  So in the interest of comic book history, I'm posting the attached photos as well as my observations about the differences between the regular 28 and the Overseas Edition.  

The Overseas Edition has the same page count as the regular edition.  Some of the ads are the same (and in the exact same position as the regular edition).  Some other ads, including the EverReady battery ad on the back cover, were replaced with one-page cartoon stories (typical example is the Private Pete cartoon strip shown on the back cover of the Overseas edition below).  

If anyone else has any information about these rarities, I would love to hear about it.

p.s.  I have seen more copies of the Action, Detective and Superman Special Editions made for the U.S. Navy during WWII than I ever have seen of the Special Editions. I have a feeling that many more of those Special Editions survived the war than these Overseas Editions.  Since the Overseas Editions were so outrageously rare, I wonder if others were made and are unknown to this day.  p.p.s. I need to crack open my Gerber Photojournal books to see if any of those Overseas or Special Editions were documented in there.  

 

Back cover of Superman 28 Regular Edition and Overseas Edition:

 

Edited January 7, 2023 by Cpt Kirk

[Get Marwood & I]

How cool is that! 

The GCD has #27 as an "Overseas Service Edition", as I'm sure you already know...

...but there's no mention of your #28 anywhere that I can find online.

Maybe add it to @N e r V's thread here (I see you mention it on page 5):

Very cool, Captain 

[woowoo]

 

Edited January 5, 2023 by woowoo

[porcupine48]

On 1/5/2023 at 2:50 PM, Get Marwood & I said:

How cool is that! 

The GCD has #27 as an "Overseas Service Edition", as I'm sure you already know...

...but there's no mention of your #28 anywhere that I can find online.

Maybe add it to @N e r V's thread here (I see you mention it on page 5):

Very cool, Captain 

Did someone say cool?

[Cpt Kirk]

On 1/5/2023 at 4:15 PM, woowoo said:

 

dude.... great find!

[woowoo]

On 1/5/2023 at 7:01 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

dude.... great find!

you think that was good look at this.

 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 1/5/2023 at 10:27 PM, woowoo said:

you think that was good look at this.

 

amazing.... no pun intended.

[woowoo]

On 1/5/2023 at 7:43 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

amazing.... no pun intended.

That's journey into mystery 83 also.

[Captainwonder]

I never heard of this! Super cool 😎! Did they ever do sensation or Wonder Woman? 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 1/7/2023 at 9:55 AM, Captainwonder said:

I never heard of this! Super cool 😎! Did they ever do sensation or Wonder Woman? 

Not that we are aware of.   The only two that seem to be known are Superman 27 and 28.   I would love to have the paperwork that the U.S. Army had associated with the ordering of these comic books from D.C.   Rest assured that very few of those types of records survived.   

[Captainwonder]

On 1/7/2023 at 9:35 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

Not that we are aware of.   The only two that seem to be known are Superman 27 and 28.   I would love to have the paperwork that the U.S. Army had associated with the ordering of these comic books from D.C.   Rest assured that very few of those types of records survived.   

Thank you for the information 

[Cpt Kirk]

On 1/5/2023 at 2:08 PM, Cpt Kirk said:

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase a CGC graded 4.0 copy of Superman 28 Overseas Edition recently.  I've been looking for this comic book for more than 30 years, so I bought the book the first chance I got (and then immediately broke it out of the CGC case when it arrived so that I could look at the inside).

As far as I know, there are only a very few surviving copies of these Overseas Editions and I have't seen any details written up on the internet about the Overseas Edition of Superman 28.  So in the interest of comic book history, I'm posting the attached photos as well as my observations about the differences between the regular 28 and the Overseas Edition.  

The Overseas Edition has the same page count as the regular edition.  Some of the ads are the same (and in the exact same position as the regular edition).  Some other ads, including the EverReady battery ad on the back cover, were replaced with one-page cartoon stories (typical example is the Private Pete cartoon strip shown on the back cover of the Overseas edition below).  

If anyone else has any information about these rarities, I would love to hear about it.

p.s.  I have seen more copies of the Action, Detective and Superman Special Editions made for the U.S. Navy during WWII than I ever have seen of the Special Editions. I have a feeling that many more of those Special Editions survived the war than these Overseas Editions.  Since the Overseas Editions were so outrageously rare, I wonder if others were made and are unknown to this day.  p.p.s. I need to crack open my Gerber Photojournal books to see if any of those Overseas or Special Editions were documented in there.  

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Back cover of Superman 28 Regular Edition and Overseas Edition:

 

Just a follow up:  All six of the known Special Editions of Superman, Action and Detective are shown in the Gerber Photojournal Guide to Comics.  But neither the Superman 27 nor Superman 28 Overseas Editions are shown in the Photojournal Guide.  It makes me wonder how many of these Overseas Editions really exist.

Edited January 9, 2023 by Cpt Kirk