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ComicBook.com Oct 24, 2026 • 08:55 PM Football

DC Broke Its Weirdest Silver Age Rule for the Cover of This Iconic Villain’s First Appearance

In the 1950s and 60s, conventional wisdom at DC Comics was that gorillas meant sales. Yes, really: the publisher had hard data to support that, for some reason, a comic almost always sold better with… [+6074 chars]

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