Thanks for visiting Comichron, alternately known as the Comics Chronicles (either spelling will get you to the site).
Having worked in comic professionally for may years, I’m really looking at Comichron as a chance to both reclaim the “hobby” element of my comics-collecting life — while providing a location for similarly interested folks to trade information. I’ve been interested in comics circulation history — a fancy way of saying “how many comics exist” — for years, even before my tenure on Comics & Games Retailer and Comics Buyer’s Guide. While there, I was able to focus on the subject in the magazines — and then, after I had gone elsewhere in the company, in books like the Standard Catalog of Comic Books and on the CBG website.
I’m still contributing research to those publications as a freelancer and columnist — but I’ve still got mountains of information that I’d like to get in front of the people who’d like to use it. I’ve answered countless inquiries individually from reporters and students looking into the state of the comics market over time; the site gives me a chance to get those answers online, while providing networking to knowledgeable folk such as Peter Bickford, Milton Griepp, Russ Maheras, John Mayo, and Maggie Thompson.
Again, Comichron is, for me, a hobby — I’m beginning modestly with data from the 1960s, and will get more online as I have time. Longer-term, I’m exploring other strategies for managing the information online — and I also have a number of data sets that delve into time periods where there really hasn’t been much information available. Suggestions and comments are welcome!
Comichron founder John Jackson Miller has tracked the comics industry for more than 25 years, including a decade editing the industry’s retail trade magazine; he is the author of several guides to comics, as well as more than a hundred comic books for various franchises.
He is the author of novels including Star Wars: Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Dawn, Star Trek: Discovery – The Enterprise War, and his upcoming release, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – The High Country. Read more about them at his fiction site.
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