{"id":5116,"date":"2012-04-01T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:12:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:12:16","slug":"statement-of-ownership-database-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/01\/statement-of-ownership-database-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement of Ownership database hits the 3,000 mark"},"content":{"rendered":"
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March 2012 is the fifth anniversary of The Comics Chronicles<\/b><\/i> site, which began with a posting that included the sales figures I had collected to that point that had appearing in the Statements of Ownership in comics from 1960 to 1969.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

I promised at the time to provide more years later on \u2014 but I didn’t realize how much<\/i> later on. What happened is that as I continued to look into what titles and years I still didn’t have data for, I realized there were too many holes yet to go forward with simple rankings. So I have continued plugging holes and adding data \u2014 and here in the waning minutes of March five years later, I have just added the 3,000th postal statement containing post-1959 comics sales figures to my database. More than 450 titles from more than a dozen publishers from the last 52 years are included.<\/p>\n

So I won’t be able to make the anniversary month, but a large update is forthcoming, nearly doubling the number of titles for the 1960 list, for example. It took me and those helping two years to locate the first 2,000, but a decade to get the next thousand. There are major changes coming to the 1960s lists, and I will be posting those first.<\/p>\n

My expectation is that fewer than a thousand more remain to be found \u2014 and now I believe I know where the majority of them appeared. So when I do the updates this time around I will be including a hit list of specific titles, years, and in many cases, exact issues yet to be surveyed; I’ll also involve the Comichron Facebook page<\/b><\/a> in the process, so readers can help. There are a lot of cases where I have the sales figure but not the entire Statement, which includes a lot of useful data; I’m looking to add all of those to the files as well.<\/p>\n

So while I’m not nearly done with this lifelong project, the home stretch is visible up ahead. Stay tuned to Comichron in the weeks ahead: it won’t take five years this time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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