Marvel’s Star Wars #1s in 1977 (left) and 2015 (right) topped 1 million copies Marvel has confirmed this morning a report from Comicbook.com that its Star Wars #1, releasing in January, has orders of more than 1 million copies, which would make it the best-selling print comic book in North America since at least 1999 … Read more
Between the new movie and the lawsuit, Ghost Rider is much in the news, and The Comics Chronicles has received a number of requests for historic data. Complete Statement of Ownership data for three series have been posted here: Ghost Rider Vol. 1 (1973-83), Ghost Rider Vol. 2 (1990-98), and Ghost Rider 2099 (1994-96). The … Read more
The Direct Market saved Superman’s world. Jim Shooter, former editor in chief at Marvel, has embarked on his blog on a discussion of the history of the distribution business for comics, delving into such fun buts of minutiae as affadavit returns. (See Chuck Rozanski’s piece on the Mile High II collection, a batch of … Read more
No time for a longer flashback today, but with the New York Times moving much content back behind a paywall in January, now is probably a good time to search for any of those comics articles you’d like to see before the change. I was amused to find an interview with me from September 1996, … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt We’ve added two magazines to our Title Spotlight section this week, but apart from their physical sizes and the fact that there are comics inside, they don’t have a thing in common but the staples. Warren Publishing released the first issue of Vampirella in 1969. Like its sister … Read more
by John Jackson Miller and Joyce Greenholdt We’ve added several new titles to the Title Spotlights section today, and we’re hoping to make some regular updates to the section in the future. This week we added circulation statements for a number of titles for Marvel Comics’ 2099 imprint from the 1990s. The imprint re-imagined the … Read more