With The Avengers movie releasing, this seems like a good time to post the near-complete year-by-year record of Avengers sales, according to statements Marvel filed with the U.S. Postal Service. The first postal statement appeared in 1966; I have all of them since then with the exception of 1975, 1988, 2005, and 2010 when Marvel … 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
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
A brief flashback today on a title that had a brief run: Gene Roddenberry’s Xander in Lost Universe, a part of the Tekno-Comix line from 1995. A part of Big Entertainment, Tekno-Comix was a short-lived attempt to build series around the names and concepts of celebrities ranging from Leonard Nimoy to John Jakes. It … 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 Within a year or so of Jack Kirby’s Challengers of the Unknown getting their own title in 1958, DC Comics introduced several new teams of non-super-powered adventurers: Cave Carson, Rip Hunter, and the Sea Devils. The latter two got their own titles in the early ’60s, though neither … Read more