{"id":5127,"date":"2012-02-16T01:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T21:15:22","slug":"ghost-rider-circulation-history-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/ghost-rider-circulation-history-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Rider circulation history online"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: right;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/GhostRiderV1n1-1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Between the new movie and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsbeat.com\/2012\/02\/15\/what-the-gary-friedrichdisneymarvel-case-means-for-comics-creators\/\"><b>lawsuit<\/b><\/a>, Ghost Rider is much in the news, and <b>The Comics Chronicles<\/b> has received a number of requests for historic data. Complete Statement of Ownership data for three series have been posted here: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/titlespotlights\/ghostridervol1.html\"><i>Ghost Rider Vol. 1<\/i><\/a> <\/b>(1973-83), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/titlespotlights\/ghostridervol2.html\"><i><b>Ghost Rider<\/b><b> Vol. 2<\/b><\/i><\/a> (1990-98), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/titlespotlights\/ghostrider2099.html\"><b><i>Ghost Rider 2099<\/i><\/b><\/a> (1994-96). The 2099 page had been previously online, but this is the first appearance here for data for the two longest-running Ghost Rider series.<\/p>\n<p>While not an upper-tier title for Marvel in that time, the 1970s series lasted longer than most of the horror-themed titles from that era, and the title even went from bimonthly to monthly at the end of the decade.<\/p>\n<p>The second series, meanwhile, was one of several Marvel revivals to get hot during the comics boom of the early 1990s. The best-selling individual issue, #28, had overall sales of 602,500 copies according to documentation, of which nearly half a million copies came from the Direct Market; this was during the <b>&#8220;Rise of the Midnight Sons&#8221;<\/b> promotion. Unfortunately, the title&#8217;s fortunes tracked the collapse of the industry, losing half its sales in 1994 and again in 1995. I project the 81 issues of the first series sold 10-12 million copies combined; 17-19 million copies of all 93 issues of the second series combined.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the 2099 title, there was another <b><a href=\"http:\/\/shrsl.com\/?%7E1y58\">Ghost Rider<\/a> <\/b>spinoff in 1994: <i><b>Blaze<\/b><\/i>. It didn&#8217;t run long enough to produce circulation statements. A longer-running revival of the Ghost Rider series ran 35 issues from 2006-2009; I have not checked it for Statements. If anyone has, please let me know. Sales figures for the individual issues through Diamond can be seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/monthlycomicssales.html\"><b>Monthly Comics Sales<\/b><\/a> pages; Diamond&#8217;s sales would be the lion&#8217;s share of sales for that title.<\/p>\n<p>For background on Statements of Ownership, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/faq.html\"><b>here<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8230; <a title=\"Ghost Rider circulation history online\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/ghost-rider-circulation-history-online\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ghost Rider circulation history online\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,42],"class_list":["post-5127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-marvel","tag-title-spotlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127","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=5127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5127\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}