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A 1968 DC house ad, in advance of SHOWCASE 73, and then BEWARE THE CREEPER 1-6 by Ditko.

https://viewcomiconline.com/showcase-issue-73/
https://viewcomiconline.com/beware-the-creeper-issue-1/

A DC era starting with editor and artist Dick Giordano moving to DC, bringing along Steve Ditko, Jim Aparo, and Dennis O'Neil. All hired by Carmine Infantino, recently just moved from penciller up to editor in chief, and appointing Joe Orlando and Joe Kubert as editors, beginning a renovation of DC that for my money made them such a creative publisher in the 1967-1975 era (up until Infantino was fired in early 1976),.
Not only the stories and art themselves, but also the DC house look in the books' design and promotional house ads, made the entire DC line for me more interesting and fun than at any time since.

Infantino in an interview said that when DC fired him, they had to hire and promote 5 more people to replace him and do the workload he had been doing, and that even 5 people wasn't enough to do all the work that Infantino himself had done for DC every month. And remaining DC insiders told Infantino that a year after Infantino was fired, DC had its worst sales of any year in DC history. That DC quickly realized what a mistake it was to fire him.