Yes, it was established in a 1967 comic that Superman's birthday (not Clark Kent's) was to be celebrated on February 29, Leap Day.
Here's an article about it.
Today's page-by-pages from October, 1963's
Action Comics #305 Come just past the staple -- we're halfway through!
I guess these ads might have been effective in shilling the poor kids of their allowances -- these come-ons were seen every month in a wide range of titles. If I had to guess, I'd venture that the planes were probably the outlines or line drawings of aircraft, maybe printed on a square card or rounded bit of pressboard like a milk-cap insert.
And who would want a bunch of old stamps, anyway, where there were bubble-gum monster cards to be had, and marbles to be played?
Now, I do have this
Flash Annual, but it doesn't count since I bought it only twenty years ago or so. Do you suppose very many kids actually pinned up the portrait of the Flash?
See you on Wednesday, when we'll start the second story in this issue, "The Girl Who Hated Supergirl!"
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