{"id":4883,"date":"2013-04-18T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T20:30:04","slug":"75-years-of-superman-and-whole-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/75-years-of-superman-and-whole-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"75 years of Superman — and a whole mountain of comics sold"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"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<\/b><\/a>; I had been missing a few of the details when I first posted this material four years ago here, but now it is all online. (I’ve got everything for Action<\/i>, too \u2014 that post is coming soon.)<\/p>\n

Sales data begins in Superman<\/i> in 1960 and runs until DC stopped publishing postal statements in 1987. By that time, the series had transformed into Adventures of Superman<\/span>;
\nit may appear to be information for two titles, but as far as the
\nPostal Service regulations were concerned, it’s all one series. (It later changed back to Superman <\/span>with #650.)
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\n\"\"Superman, we see in the yearly tables<\/span><\/a>,
\nwas the #1 title for several years in the 1960s \u2014 and probably in
\n1963-64 as well, years in which DC published Statements with no sales
\nfigures.<\/p>\n

While the Statement of Ownership period at DC is only a chunk
\nof the title’s long history, I include a little bit about estimated
\nsales before 1960 and after 1987. Everything from 1996 to present\u00a0 can be found
\nin the monthly sales charts<\/span><\/a> here on site; that gives us about 44 years of data.<\/p>\n

The main title alone has had total all-time sales in the nine figures, just in North America.<\/p>\n

I also have a post from a few years ago getting into how many copies of Action<\/i> #1 were initially printed and sold.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,44,42],"class_list":["post-4883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dc-comics","tag-superman","tag-title-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883","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=4883"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4883\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}