Yesterday, I had mentioned that when I bought my almost complete run of DC Comics Presents from eBay, there was one issue missing that the seller had kept.  So what was the missing issue?

The obvious answer is #26 with the first appearance of the New Teen Titans.  Well, you'd be wrong.

Then, you might guess issue #47 with the first comic book appearance of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.  Well, you'd be wrong again.

I'll give you a hint.  I bought this collection in 2006, when Infinite Crisis was huge...and who was the big bad in that book?  None other than Superboy-Prime!  Suddenly, his first appearance in DC Comics Presents #87 from November 1985 went from quarter bin fodder to a $20-30 wall book.

So yeah, I ended up getting my first New Teen Titans and first He-Man for a buck a book!  In the long-run, it was a bad spec bet for the original seller to keep the #87, but let the #26 and #47 go.  Oh well, his loss was my gain.  Besides, I had already pulled my copy of #87 out of the aforementioned quarter bins.  It would have been nice to get a cleaner copy at the time, but I had patience.  I finally did pick up a nice copy of #87 a few years later at the Motor City Comic-Con that I had to pay $5 for, which seemed like a fair price.

That's a great cover by Eduardo Barreto.  It's too bad he never was much more than a cover artist for the Superman books, as I definitely could have done with some more Eduardo Barreto interior pencils too.

But as great as that cover is, it doesn't beat the original by Curt Swan and Stan Kaye from Superboy #47, all the way back from March of 1956!

Damn, I love that cover!  Special thanks to @skypinkblu for this issue, as I picked it up from her epic Superboy sales thread from earlier in the year.  So many good books were available!  I'm sure we'll see another one or two over the course of this journal, so stay tuned!