The essential difference between SA DC and Marvel in a nutshell. 1 1

[kav]

DC was constantly having characters turn into babies.  Superman, the Legion, Lois, Jimmy-everyone.  They also had plenty of actual superbaby stories.  Me this and me that much like Bizzarro.  They also had plenty of gorilla covers.
Marvel as far as I am aware had not a single baby or gorilla story.

Edited November 28, 2020 by kav

[1950's war comics]

every DC character got fat at one time or another it seems too....

[1950's war comics]

i loved Sgt Rock as a kid but WOW his platoon must have killed an entire German army without ever losing a single man...

[1950's war comics]

at least Sgt Fury lost one man in the midst of wiping out entire German and Japanese divisions

[Superman2006]

Below is a link of Gorilla covers that someone put together. Looks like ASM #110 had the first appearance of the Gibbon (not technically a gorilla per se, if I understand correctly, but part of the ape family)... Lots of DC gorilla covers...

https://comicbookinvest.com/2015/06/17/gorilla-cover-gallery-checklist/ 

[kav]

DC was also a lot heavier on the alien beings element in their stories.  

[Coverless 9.8]

X-Babies must've been the convergence, although Copper Age!  

Edited November 28, 2020 by Coverless 9.8

[kav]

2 minutes ago, Superman2006 said:

Below is a link of Gorilla covers that someone put together. Looks like ASM #110 had the first appearance of the Gibbon (not technically a gorilla per se, if I understand correctly, but part of the ape family)... Lots of DC gorilla covers...

https://comicbookinvest.com/2015/06/17/gorilla-cover-gallery-checklist/ 

Now we just need the baby cover gallery!

[kav]

Gorilla alien baby story!  If only DC had thought of this one!!!

[Coverless 9.8]

DC must've concluded that it was good monkey business!  King Kong didn't have sh*t, on them!  

[Phicks]

A friend of mine pointed out that DC covers in the silver and early Bronze Age extrapolated that the villain had actually won and the hero was dead, and that is NOT what happened at all if you bought the book and read it.  Marvel did not lie to its readers in that way.

Edited November 28, 2020 by Phicks
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[Coverless 9.8]

Stan Lee may have been avuncular, but DC was a monkey's uncle!  

[Coverless 9.8]

4 minutes ago, Phicks said:

A friend of mine pointed out that DC covers in the silver and early Bronze Age extrapolated that the villain had actually won and the hero was dead, and that is NOT what happened at all if you bought the book and read it.  Marvel did not lie to its readers in that way.

They still don't lie!  Today nothing happens on the cover or in the comic!  

[Ken Aldred]

The addition of romance comic soap opera and a lot of familial bickering on the Marvel side.

[kav]

57 minutes ago, Phicks said:

A friend of mine pointed out that DC covers in the silver and early Bronze Age extrapolated that the villain had actually won and the hero was dead, and that is NOT what happened at all if you bought the book and read it.  Marvel did not lie to its readers in that way.

My god youre right!  That is like 90% of the covers in that time period.

[Ken Aldred]

1 hour ago, 1950's war comics said:

at least Sgt Fury lost one man in the midst of wiping out entire German and Japanese divisions

And one of them took out a flying Messerschmitt with a hand grenade.  
A classic scene.

Edited November 28, 2020 by Ken Aldred

[Ken Aldred]

I remembered this one.

[astrometric]

Brilliant thread. My favorite Supes cover is when he meets Puff the Magic Dragon.

[kav]

3 minutes ago, Ken Aldred said:

They misspelled gorilla.

3 minutes ago, astrometric said:

I suggest Supes would have been nicknamed Fingers Malone after this.

[fmaz]

You can take 30 SA issues of Superman or Batman and shuffle them up like a deck of cards and read them ... and it literally makes almost no impact on the storytelling. Nothing from one issue mattered to the next anyway.   Imagine trying to do that with Marvel books. 
I wonder if, at the time, DC considered the above a “positive” ... or they just were slow to notice what Marvel did and why it was working. 
That, and the gorilla thing. 😄