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narfstar:
--- Quote from: JVJ on July 09, 2010, 04:49:31 PM ---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.
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Same thing that jumped out at me Jim
JVJ (RIP):
We may never know the answer, narf.
Did you ever get a chance to scrounge up a fiche for me?
Peace, Jim (|:{>
John C:
--- Quote from: JVJ on July 09, 2010, 04:49:31 PM ---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.
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Any idea when the first issue hit the stands? If it was February, for example, they might have reset the volume with the new year.
Again, I'm pulling that out of, well, let's say my "hat," but it seems like something I might be inclined to do in their situation. What I mean is that it might make sense for some publishing reason (taxes?) to know the publication calendar year by the issue number, regardless of whether the book was launched in summer or winter, and whether it was quarterly, bimonthly, or monthly.
That logic, though, might be exclusive of my other hypothesis, though there's also the possibility that they gave up their plans of "squatting profits" with issue 12, thus making that the second volume...maybe.
Bob Hughes:
The attached index card with the credits is for V2 #11.
As far as the discrepancy between the cover and the book, you have to remember they were printed in different places. Covers were routinely printed at one printer that could handle glossy paper and the book's guts were printed at another printer that did newsprint- and then usually sent to a third company to be bound together! I think World Color in 1955 was probably the first place to offer to do the whole thing.
Also between v1 and v2, the comic changed publishers. So the covers were printed before the switchover and the new publisher decided to use them anyway to save money. New publisher, new address, new business plan. Nothing in the cover indicia matches the indicia on the first page. Not even the copyright!
builderboy:
Good point, Bob. There is a variant form of the indicia printed on the TOC page, so 2 indicias for the single issue. I didn't do a thorough comparison of the two, but they vary significantly in content. Oddly, both cite that they hold 1937 copywrites, the ifc version by Comics Magazine Company, Inc. and the TOC version by Ultem Publications, Inc. (Harry "A" Chesler, editor).
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