13. "RE: Speaking of Superman..."
In response to message #12
>Also: While snouting around at the beginnings of the Rebirth renumber >series today, I noticed that a number of the New 52 series (the ones >that went the distance and weren't canceled within the first couple >years) ended their runs at #52. I doubt DC has the capacity to have >planned the whole thing in advance (or not to brag about it if they >had), but I also doubt that can possibly be a coincidence.
Not a coincidence, no. The last attempt to boost sales had been in the late 30s, early 40s of the run, and it crashed and burned incredibly painfully, so they were desperately trying to glue things back together at the same time their favourite number came up.