Reports began circulating the evening of July 3 regarding Mad magazine (the latest is that new content is ending and that the title is leaving newsstands), so I’ve responded by doing something that’s been long overdue: I’ve posted the full postal-data sales history of the title since 1960 in our Title Spotlights section. The main reason … Read more
Earlier this month, MAD magazine did something it’s done regularly every year since the 1950s: it ran its Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation for the year, this one in issue #549. It did so as well at the end of 2016, in #543 — and while that year’s form was notable for being the … Read more
Every so often we post a new Title Spotlight here on Comichron, listing all the postal Statement of Ownership circulation data from the 500+ titles confirmed to have run forms with numbers — and every so often some event from the outside world moves to push a title to the head of the line. … Read more
Since 1960 when the U.S. Postal Service began requiring publications that shipped Second Class (now Periodical Class) to include circulation data in their annual Statements of Ownership, Management, and Circulation, comics researchers have been collecting them; I currently have 3,854 out of a projected 4,100, with the remaining balance mostly in Charlton and Harvey titles … Read more
The first volume of Two Morrows’ American Comic Book Chronicles series releases this week: the 1960-64 edition, written by John Wells and edited by Keith Dallas. (A 1980s edition is due in March.) The series is not affiliated with The Comics Chronicles, but having looked through the copy I’ve received, I’m happy to endorse the … Read more
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