I’ve been adding quite a lot of Statement of Ownership data to the Comichron database for an update coming soon; the list of titles I have information for in 1960 has more than doubled in length since my initial post here. It’s all coming soon, but for an early taste, I’ve added a full Title … 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
Newsarama posted a column this week speculating on whether DC might go to seasonal numbering of issues, rebooting the numbers every year — which reminded me that Nrama had asked me a few weeks back for some thoughts on comics numbering and where it came from in the first place. I don’t know if that … Read more
In last week’s post on celebrity comics appearances — and some of my earlier work to index them — I mentioned that there were a lot more photo-covers throughout comics history than readers of today’s comics might imagine. Gale Storm, who passed away at 87 this weekend, is proof of this, appearing in and on … Read more
Here’s something that should interest collectors of Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman comics — and the later Valiant and Acclaim comics: The complete sales history of Turok, Son of Stone is now on The Comics Chronicles, including all data from all the Statements of Ownership ever printed in the title. We even go back to … Read more