Marvel’s ABC Statement for the first half of 1962 Over the last two decades, Russ Maheras, Jonathan Hoyle, and I have visited the offices of the Audit Bureau of Circulation at various times, using the old microfilm viewer to capture comics sales data. It’s provided a glimpse into a time in comics history when advertising sales were … Read more
Following my quick analysis yesterday of the 1948 sales figures discovered by Tim Stroup, some have suggested that suggesting the industry is “more profitable” today is too strong. My old colleague from Comics Buyer’s Guide John Diser notes that advertising revenues would certainly have been greater; and Chuck Dixon reminds that publishers owned their own … Read more
Tim Stroup, cofounder of the Grand Comics Database and co-owner of Cold Cut Distribution, is one of those “like-minded archaeologists of comics history” I had in mind when I wrote my site’s description years ago; he’s a source for a lot of interesting information. Recently, he started a daily blog, Today in Comics History, which … Read more
I am often asked about comics sales in the old days — meaning the really old days of the Golden Age. One of the people who’s done a lot of work in this area is Russ Maheras, who provided me his Audit Bureau of Circulation research on Famous Funnies a few years back. Launched in … Read more