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** ''2000 AD'' #2350 and ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' #460, both published September 2023, are WhatIf issues imagining what the comic would be like if ''Battle-Action'' had been taken into the fold. The lead strip in ''2000 AD'' is ''Judge Dredd: Juves Rule OK'', which relocates ''Comicbook/{{Action}}'''s notorious ''Kids Rule OK'' strip to the Dreddverse, and the other strips have been given an SF&F gloss, such as Major Eazy now fighting the {{Ghostapo}} or RabidCop Dredger getting sent to the future. The ''Megazine'', meanwhile, relocates ''all'' the strips to the Dreddverse, often dramatically reinventing them in the process, except the lead story which is a Dredd/Curistor Doom crossover, despite the fact Curistor Doom was a ''Smash!'' character, and never apeared in ''Battle-Action''.

** ''2000 AD'' #2350 and ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' #460, both published September 2023, are WhatIf issues imagining what the comic would be like if ''Battle-Action'' had been taken into the fold. The lead strip in ''2000 AD'' is ''Judge Dredd: Juves Rule OK'', which relocates ''Comicbook/{{Action}}'''s notorious ''Kids Rule OK'' strip to the Dreddverse, and the other strips have been given an SF&F gloss, such as Major Eazy now fighting the {{Ghostapo}} or RabidCop Dredger getting sent to the future ''Film/DemolitionMan'' style. The ''Megazine'', meanwhile, relocates ''all'' the strips to the Dreddverse, often dramatically reinventing them in the process, except the lead story which is a Dredd/Curistor Doom crossover, despite the fact Curistor Doom was a ''Smash!'' character, and never apeared in ''Battle-Action''.

** ''2000 AD'' #2350 and ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' #460, both published September 2023, are WhatIf issues imagining what the comic would be like if ''Battle-Action'' had been taken into the fold. The lead strip in ''2000 AD'' is ''Judge Dredd: Juves Rule OK'', which relocates ''Comicbook/{{Action}}'''s notorious ''Kids Rule OK'' strip to the Dreddverse.

** ''2000 AD'' #2350 and ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' #460, both published the same week, are WhatIf issues imagining what the comic would be like if ''Battle-Action'' had been taken into the fold. The lead strip in ''2000 AD'' is ''Judge Dredd: Juves Rule OK'', which relocates ''Comicbook/{{Action}}'''s notorious ''Kids Rule OK'' strip to the Dreddverse.

** ''2000 AD'' #2350 and ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd Megazine'' #460, both out the same week, are WhatIf issues imagining what the comic would be like if ''Battle-Action'' had been taken into the fold. The lead strip in ''2000 AD'' is ''Judge Dredd: Juves Rule OK'', which relocates ''Comicbook/{{Action}}'''s notorious ''Kids Rule OK'' strip to the Dreddverse.

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* Thus, In 1974, Creator/DCComics canceled ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'''s ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl1972 first solo title]]'', ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'' and ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlfriendLoisLane''. The three features were combined (along with other occasional ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}''-related features) in the super-sized ''ComicBook/SupermanFamily'' title, which ran until 1982.

* Meanwhile, at DC Thomson's girls department, ''Comicbook/{{Mandy}}'' absorbed ''Debbie'' (which itself had merged with ''Spellbound'', DC Thomson's version of ''Misty''), and then ''Judy'' to be ''Mandy and Judy'' for a while (an unusually equal partnership, with the two title characters even sharing a strip where they were now friends, whereas Debbie had just disappeared), before merging with the TropeMaker of "girls' comic with a girl's name", ''Comicbook/{{Bunty}}''.

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* Thus, In 1974, Creator/DCComics canceled ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'''s ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1972}} first book]]'', ''Superman's Pal, ComicBook/JimmyOlsen'', and ''Superman's Girlfriend, ComicBook/LoisLane''. The three features were combined (along with other occasional Franchise/{{Superman}}-related features) in the (ahem) super-sized ''Superman Family'' title, which ran until 1982.

* In January 2018, ''ComicBook/USAvengers'', ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'' and ''ComicBook/Avengers2016'' merged to form the weekly book ''ComicBook/AvengersNoSurrender''.