{"id":5784,"date":"2009-02-24T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-24T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:07:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:07:39","slug":"spotlight-turok-son-of-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/spotlight-turok-son-of-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight: Turok, Son of Stone sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 283px;\" src=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Turok-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306185079538781106\" border=\"0\" \/>Here&#8217;s something that should interest collectors of<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Dell, Gold Key<\/span>, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Whitman<\/span> comics \u2014 and the later <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Valiant<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Acclaim<\/span> comics: The complete sales history of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/titlespotlights\/turok.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Turok, Son of Stone<\/span><\/a> is now on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Comics Chronicles<\/span><\/a>, including all data from all the Statements of Ownership ever printed in the title. We even go back to 1957, when there were no figures printed but the statements still ran. The Statements were photocopied from a complete set and provided to me in the 1990s by a writer who signed his name simply &#8220;Bill Turok.&#8221; Thanks, Bill!<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the highest reported sales of <span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">Turok<\/span> from its original run were lower than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Capital City Distribution<\/span>&#8216;s sales, alone, of the first issue of Valiant&#8217;s <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Turok, Dinosaur Hunter<\/span>  in 1993. (That issue, with its &#8220;chromium&#8221; cover, cost $3.50, about what the average comic book today sells for.) Another time-lost time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comichron.com\/titlespotlights.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Title Spotlights section<\/span><\/a> is coming together slowly, yet, but this is one title report that&#8217;s likely complete.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Unrelated note:<\/span> My work on Comichron is among the topics in an interview just posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/?p=821\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">ComicsCareer<\/span><\/a>. You, too, can count comics for fun and profit. Well, for fun&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something that should interest collectors of Dell, Gold Key, and Whitman comics \u2014 and the later Valiant and Acclaim comics: The complete sales history of Turok, Son of Stone is now on The Comics Chronicles, including all data from all the Statements of Ownership ever printed in the title. We even go back to &#8230; <a title=\"Spotlight: Turok, Son of Stone sales\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/24\/spotlight-turok-son-of-stone\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Spotlight: Turok, Son of Stone sales\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,86,88,29,42,118,74],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acclaim","tag-dell","tag-gold-key","tag-statements-of-ownership","tag-title-spotlights","tag-valiant","tag-whitman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","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=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5786,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}