Wow, this sounds exciting! I'd love to be able to get to the comic book shop and tap dance.
DD: Absolutely. One of the things that I felt very strongly about was that our four premiere books, which I always feel set the style and tone for the DCU: Superman, Batman, Action Comics and Detective Comics should have their original numbering. They’re very special series, both given their characters and historically, and they should be treated as such.
This gladdens my heart. Watching a piece of comics history be restored in a small way, like the numbering on SUPERMAN, is a step in the right direction. Appreciation for the past uplifts us all, whether it be in small, trivial ways like restoring the numbering on a classic comic like SUPERMAN, or in larger ways like restoring old buildings. Numbering may be a very little thing, but it's a step in the right direction for the Superman titles. Didio may not know from shinola when it comes to television, but an old fanboy like him is the best sort of person to run a comic book company.
Ditto for the HISTORY OF THE DC UNIVERSE that's going on in 52: hopefully, they'll stick to it the second time around!
Hopefully, they'll view this as an opportunity to restore to the DC Universe some of the amazing stories of the past to leave open for future story potential and sequels to be told in the present: the great classic stuff by John Broome, Nelson Bridwell, and maybe the best of them all, the amazing Gardner Fox!