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That initial comic, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80,000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939. The latter is identical except for a black bar over the October date in the inside-front-cover indicia, and the November date added at the end. [4] That sold approximately 800,000 copies. [8]
That initial comic, cover-dated October 1939, quickly sold out 80,000 copies, prompting Goodman to produce a second printing, cover-dated November 1939 and identical except for a black bar in the inside-front-cover indicia over the October date, and the November date added at the end.
Nov 19, 2022 · the first Joker Comics I could find with the logo was Joker Comics #36 with a December 9, 1948 release date and a March 1949 cover date. For some reason issue #40 didn't have the logo, but issue #41 did.
Witness the deliberate movement of Marvel Mystery Comics #31 to Dec 1941 because it has 2 stories that specifically occur in that month. For a similar reason a continued story from several monthly issues is bunched up into 1 month.
Jan 25, 2013 · Why the two different dates? Well, these two comics both went on sale (or were technically "published") in August of 1966. The other dates (which are listed on the cover and indicia) refer to the date by which the comic was to be pulled off the newsstand in the event that any issues went unsold.
The cover date is the date that is printed on the cover, while the in-store date is the date it is released/published/available for sale :) Many comics have a cover date that is two months ahead of the in-store date, basically because of tradition (how that tradition got started, the wikipedia article someone once linked me doesn't actually ...
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Dec 13, 2018 · The final issue to sport an Atlas globe cover was a new funny animal comic book by Stan Lee and Joe Maneely, Dippy Duck #1, (Oct/57). In fact, it was one of only 2 comic book published with an Oct/57 cover date, the other being Patsy Walker #73, which did not sport an Atlas globe logo.
