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
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
Russ Maheras is one of the premier “comics archaeologists,” having delved into the microfilm files of the Audit Bureau of Circulation to find much of what we know about comics sales from the Golden Age. (Find some of his research here.) On reading my post this morning about February’s comics sales, Russ wrote in with … Read more
On occasion, I look back at the N.W. Ayer & Sons Directory — an annual publication that for more than a century under various names included information on periodicals for the use of advertisers. In addition to publisher addresses and physical dimensions of their ad spaces, the Directories include information from the Audit Bureau of … Read more