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IW Comics Listings - updated April 17, 2022
Yoc:
Unless they had big expectations and sales showed different.
It'd be nice to see the actual article about this.
John C:
I'm coming to the IW party sort of late, but don't we know the publication dates of the individual issues? Lining them up month by month might quickly show how things happened.
They only sold through retail outlets, right? That would preclude the Charlton-like renumberings/renamings for the cheaper mailing rate.
narfstar:
I see no evidence of a renumbering like Charltons. They had far too many first issues for that to have been practical. So the next batch idea might be true
jrvandore:
If they were renumbering series, there should be a steadily diminishing trend. In other words, there should be lots of #1s, some #8s, and few #17s. But that's not true. There are lots of #1s and lots of #11s, but few #5s and #6s.
John C:
Not necessarily. As I said, I don't think it's the case, because I don't think they were mailing the comics (and therefore wouldn't care about the numbering continuity), but given Waldman's well-known "what do I need copyrights for?" stance, IF they were mailing books, I wouldn't be surprised if they made up the numbers and only changed to #1s when caught. That might even explain the #11s, hoping to sneak under the radar, if the Post Office were a factor. You might get a burst of #1s with a few rogue teens hidden, hypothetically.
But back to my actual question, is there a spreadsheet of issue numbers with their cover dates? Browsing the GCD was never designed for this sort of investigation (there's no reason to imagine it being a major use, after all), but I can't help noticing, for example, that a lot of #10s appear to have been published in 1963. Were all of them? Were they the same month?
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