Some favorites included "Mr. & Mrs. Superman" in Superman Family, the Don Newton penciled "SHAZAM" in Worlds Finest and "Batman" in Detective Comics.  "Justice Society" in Adventure Comics penciled by Joe Staton (but at least Huntress continued as a back up in Wonder Woman, with frequent guest stars Power Girl and Robin; again with that great Staton art).

It's a shame that we lost that anthology venue for characters who couldn't carry a book by themselves.

Interestingly, DC opted to keep G.I.COMBAT in its larger format, upping the price to $1.25, although the page count dropped to 40, before that book went 'normal-sized' in its final year.

Superboy was dropped from SUPERMAN FAMILY in 1979, to get that book's line up back to 5 stories per issue(having recently added 'Mr. and Mrs. Superman').

The NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERBOY title, launched in January, 1980, allowed DC to finally give Superboy's old book to the Legion of Superheroes(retaining the old numbering), while restoring Superboy to a book all his own.(While the Legion's book was taking place at a point after Superboy no longer associated with group, his new magazine casually mentioned that he was still a member, but the stories took place during those breaks between adventures in the 30th century).

In 1984, DC cancelled both the Superboy and Supergirl books, while annoncing that both characters would share a new double-sized, 48-page comic, which was supposedly going to launch when the Supergirl movie was released. Of course, by that time, discussions about the plot of CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS were ongoing, and this new project was aborted with little notice.

As I recall, Saturn Girl put the whammy-jammy on him so that he would never return.

Much confusion ensues, including a covert trip to the 20th Century for which Lightning Lad brings along Dawnstar & Blok, certainly two of the Legion's least attention-drawing members. He does so specifically because they've never been to the 20th Century before. Wouldn't it be better to take people who HAD been there? Karate Kid was along for the ride, though, so that's something... Gerry Conway left in mid-story and the tale was wrapped up by Roy Thomas. And there really is no logical reason given for why a statue of Reflecto would be set up...

I was a big fan of Dollar Comics and certainly pressured my mom to buy more of them than the family could really afford at the time. Superman Family and Adventure Comics were my favorites, and I did have a pretty good run of Worlds Finest from that time as well.

When Superboy and Supergirl were given their own titles, I followed each one for a while. If Paul Kupperberg is still looking in on this thread, I wonder if he wouldn't mind commenting on Linda Danver's neighbor, Jon Ostrander. As I understand it, the character was actually based on the writer. Correct?

Also, I'm curious about the rollback in her age. Her age was given in issue #1 of TDNAOS as 19. How old had she been seen as in the office before this, and did the reset could any stir within DC or fandom?

Or was it just a misperception on the part of the audience that she was older than 19 before TDNAOS #1?

I vaguely recall a letter to the editor asking someone on Supergirl's 80s title to make sense of her age and job history, assuming she was officially '19' years old. They pretty much swept the issue under the rug.