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jrvandore:
There are no cover dates on IW/Supers.  The only dates are copyright dates of 1958, 1963, and 1964.

John C:
That's fair.  Do we have any compilation of which numbers showed up in which years?

Note that, if only a copyright year is ever shown--funny for a company that wasn't interested in copyrights, incidentally--these probably weren't considered periodicals by the publisher, and so the issue numbers would be bogus or at best a sales gimmick to begin with.

jrvandore:
This search sort of does this, and it does look like the #1-9 came out in 1958 and #10-18 came out in 1963 and 1964.  The 1963 and 1964 overlap through 10 to 18 though.

http://www.comics.org/search/advanced/process/?ind_pub_notes=&letters=&series=&series_notes=&issue_notes=&synopsis=&colors=&isbn=&tracking_notes=&indicia_publisher=&issues=&issue_date=&title=&variant_name=&brand=&feature=&job_number=&pub_name=super+comics&is_indexed=None&story_editing=&method=icontains&pub_notes=&inks=&issue_title=&end_date=&format=&brand_notes=&price=&barcode=&volume=&pages=&characters=&genre=&issue_pages=&order2=date&order3=&order1=date&pencils=&target=issue&reprint_notes=&notes=&is_surrogate=None&issue_count=&issue_editing=&start_date=&script=&logic=False&indicia_frequency=&page=1

Jim

John C:
Very interesting.  It's obviously not real support, but I can definitely see why someone would make the jump that the numbers are related to months.  Unlikely as it might sound to have so many titles in one month and so few in others, it's hard to look at numbers split so neatly by year (with a few exceptions that could easily be printing, shipping, or other scheduling problems) and see much else.

If I had to guess (and I realize there's no reason I'd need to do any such thing with more-knowledgeable people than me looking at the problem...), I'd suggest that the #1s were an aberration, like a pessimistic business model ("we're only doing this a few times, so make everything #1), then the other numbers could be months or at least "production runs" after.

Definitely an interesting little question, though.

narfstar:
While the same exact book was printed numerous times with different numbers, it does not look like he had the same number for the same title. Blazing Six Guns had the most issues. 1-18 but there are no issues #2-7, 13, or 14. I think the next step is to compare the logos and known dates. Very interesting topic

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