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builderboy:
I did notice that the Table of Contents and indicia differed. I checked, and found that the ToC was in keeping with GCD records, so kept with that.
JVJ (RIP):
--- Quote from: builderboy on July 09, 2010, 10:58:24 AM ---I did notice that the Table of
Contents and indicia differed. I checked, and found that the ToC was in keeping with GCD records, so kept with that.
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I totally agree with your and narfstar's numbering choice, bb, but the discrepancy probably ought to be mentioned somewhere in the notes below the download, perhaps?
Peace, Jim (|:{>
ps. glad to help with the one page. Last night I devoted myself to some of MY "Golden Age" purchases - 180+ issues of Life Magazine (the humor incarnation) from 1906-1909 -- all purchased last week for less than $200. Coles Phillips, Charles Dana Gibson, Orson Lowell, and thousands of others. Grist for my ImageS mill...
pps. Thanks to everybody for putting this issue into shape.
builderboy:
Right you are, Jim...good scholarship practice. I have added the note, and checked whatever other issues I had for similar instances. FPS issues v2 07 and v2 09 neither were consistently labeled in the indicias (?).
...may have been a one time phenomenon?
John C:
--- Quote from: JVJ on July 09, 2010, 12:13:20 AM ---Did anyone besides me happen to notice that this is labeled "V1: No. 13" in the indicia? That makes ZERO sense.
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It maaay make some sense, if you stretch a little into the world of fly-by-night business. As I think we kicked around once, there doesn't seem to be a publishing definition of a "volume," so some publishers use it for a year's worth, and other use it for a title.
If it's the latter, you'd rightly say that nobody would logically name something v1 unless they knew a v2 was coming. Except...what if the original business plan (as has been typical with websites, which has a similar profile in some ways--the medium is cheap, and a lot of creators cheap out the content) was to get a "name" worth being acquired? Then the buyer would run Funny Picture Stories v2, while they'd jump to a new trademark and wait for the next buyer.
They might then either not make enough to sell or made too much to bother selling, and retroactively changed their definition of "volume" before anybody wondered why there were thirteen issues in a one. Except the cover, I mean.
I'm not claiming any knowledge of the situation, by any means, but it seems like a reasonable hypothesis to work from, at least.
JVJ (RIP):
I remain very curious and puzzled about how they handled v2:1, John.
Considering it most "traditional" to have 12 issues in a "volume", it would have not been so unlikely to have an issue labeled both "V1:13" and "V2:1", but all logic for the actual pairing of "V1:13" and "V2:2" escapes me.
Probably a one-time glitch, as you suggest, builderboy, but it really makes me wish I could afford to see a copy of the previous issue. Isn't it frustrating that so much of comics history is being encased in plastic and unavailable to people who are actually interested in them as COMIC BOOKS?
Anybody out there got a copy to examine? If so, can you post the indicia data and the title page data? Curious minds want to know...
Peace, Jim (|:{>
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