Avengers: Infinity War is out, and we’ve got a new video exploring the sales history of the main Avengers comics title through the years as reported by Marvel in its postal filings; the complete official record from 1966 forward. Follow the title’s ups and downs while learning more about postal circulation records: You can follow along with … Read more
Following our post and video about the resurrection of Superman — and continuing the month-long commemoration of Action Comics #1000‘s publication tomorrow— we’ve published the complete U.S. Postal Service circulation filings for Action Comics, which ran in the title from 1960-89. The forms confirm that very close to 100 million copies of Action were sold … Read more
It’s been a while since we added some more Title Spotlights featuring all the postal circulation data associated with a specific title — so with the movie releasing, this seemed like a good time to take a tour of Black Panther‘s various titles with circulation data. Black Panther’s debut in 1966’s Fantastic Four #52 sold … Read more
With news everywhere today about writer Brian Michael Bendis‘s departure from Marvel to an exclusive multi-year contract with DC, Comichron presents a look back to the beginning of his run with the publisher. All the filings Marvel made with the United States Postal Service about Bendis’s flagship title can now be found here at Ultimate Spider-Man: The … Read more
Wonder Woman arrives in theaters this week, seventy-five years after she got her own comic book — and Comichron commemorates that moment with the publication (all in one place for the first time anywhere!) of the complete postal record sales history for both Wonder Woman titles for which DC filed Statements of Ownership, Management, and … Read more
It’s the 40th anniversary of the release of Star Wars: A New Hope — known to those of us who saw it then as just-plain Star Wars — so here’s an update of a post from a couple of years ago on what the movie meant to comics in the 1970s. Given that much of … Read more