{"id":3909,"date":"2018-04-20T22:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T02:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T02:58:32","slug":"new-video-comics-sales-flashback-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/new-video-comics-sales-flashback-april\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video: Comics Sales Flashback: April 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on the Comichron <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5GnOPbA-sdgBwaDEoTMQOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/b>, a video flashback!<\/p>\n<p>Twenty years ago this month, the Distribution Wars had been over for a year &#8212; but the business&#8217;s problems certainly weren&#8217;t. Travel back to the age of <b><i>Battle Chasers<\/i><\/b> and mutant chart domination.<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"YOUTUBE-iframe-video\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/FtY3rX1Vxpw\/0.jpg\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FtY3rX1Vxpw?feature=player_embedded\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\nCheck out the <b>video<\/b> \u2014 and then see the charts in question for yourself:&nbsp;<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/1998\/1998-04.html\">April 1998<\/a>&nbsp;<\/b>and<b>&nbsp;<\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales\/1998.html\">1998 Year-End<\/a>. <\/b>And be sure to subscribe to the <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC5GnOPbA-sdgBwaDEoTMQOA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">channel<\/a><\/b>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on the Comichron YouTube channel, a video flashback! Twenty years ago this month, the Distribution Wars had been over for a year &#8212; but the business&#8217;s problems certainly weren&#8217;t. Travel back to the age of Battle Chasers and mutant chart domination. Check out the video \u2014 and then see the charts in question for &#8230; <a title=\"New Video: Comics Sales Flashback: April 1998\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/20\/new-video-comics-sales-flashback-april\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Video: Comics Sales Flashback: April 1998\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,41],"class_list":["post-3909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1990s-sales","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3910,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3909\/revisions\/3910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}