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I truly love reading issues of Superman from the Bronze Age.  Yes, some of the stories from thirty plus years ago might be more fanciful if not far less believable than today’s more sophisticated stories, but I love the idea of a Superman seeing his wife Lois die only to travel to a parallel world where he proposes to the Lois of this other world.  Not surprisingly he finds out that the Superman of this other world has no intention of marrying Lois so the two of them exchange worlds so that both versions of Superman can be happy.  I doubt that I am alone in this appreciation, because by looking at the circulation report of that issue published in 1969, the book had over ten times the number of issues printed of the same title today.  Other factors have contributed to this decrease in readership, but the contrast still amazes me.  To go from a circulation of over half a million issues to slightly under fifty thousand a month is worth noting.