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Comics sales spotlight: Complete postal sales history for Guardians of the Galaxy

  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

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Comics sales spotlight: Complete postal data for House of Mystery, 1960-1982

It’s been a while since we’ve done any Title Spotlights on Comichron, listing all the postal Statement of Ownership circulation data from the 500+ titles confirmed to have run forms with numbers; in part, the plan was to wait for the redesign and for new templates to display the information. That redesign is now ongoing, … Read more

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A long time ago: Original Star Wars comics title’s sales history, 1977-1986

Given that much of my professional comics and fiction output has been associated with Star Wars, it’s perhaps surprising that I haven’t gotten around to doing a circulation spotlight on the original 1977 Marvel series — especially since I’ve had all the Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation postal forms from the title on hand … Read more

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The life of Archie: 54 years of circulation history

Archie Andrews has cheated the calendar for many years, having been a teenager since his comics debut in the 1940s, but death finds him — at least in an alternate reality—in the upcoming Life With Archie #36, according to CBR reports today. “Wein’s Law” — named for Len Wein, the writer who coined it — … Read more

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Iron Man comics sales history updated, 1968-present

With the release of the third Iron Man film, I’ve updated one of the features here on the site: postal statement sales figures for the main series. The main Iron Man series, as Marvel numbers the issues, unifies several distinct runs going all the way back to the first Iron Man title in 1968.   … Read more

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75 years of Superman — and a whole mountain of comics sold

Today is being celebrated as the 75th anniversary of Superman’s first appearance, so I thought I would update one of the resources on the site. I now have the information from every single circulation form with sales data ever published in the main Superman title; I had been missing a few of the details when … Read more

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