{"id":5908,"date":"2008-11-04T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-07-28T03:08:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T03:08:38","slug":"title-spotlight-section-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/04\/title-spotlight-section-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Title spotlight section started"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I realized there was still one section yet to be restored from the previous incarnation of the site \u2014 only, it wasn’t really a section then, and it wasn’t how I wanted to present it. The Yearly Comics Sales<\/a> section presents rankings of comics sales figures reported in postal Statements of Ownership \u2014 but that’s only one way to present that data, and it only shows a small part of it.<\/p>\n

So take a look at the first of the Title Spotlights<\/span><\/a> \u2014 which really are Postal-Statement spotlights, as, in the case of Batman<\/span><\/a>, they only go up to when DC stopped mailing subscriptions Second Class (1987). But here \u2014 particularly in the case of a “completed” title from my database’s standpoint, like Doom 2099<\/a>, you can see almost every fact reported in the Statements (except for the ownership data itself, and the “most recent issue” data, which is always statistically less useful).<\/p>\n

My hope is that I can get these tables online a few at a time. As there are more than 300 such titles, I’ll probably end up with a different directory system for them when they appear online. You may also see me giving preference to posting short-run titles \u2014 it’s better to post a completed title than one where data collection is in progress \u2014 although there will be cases where the page itself represents a call for data. In the case of Batman, you’ll see that while I’ve got the sales figures for some years, because I used secondary sources, I didn’t always have the print run data, etc. Those are places where your help is invaluable \u2014 and you’ll see an e-mail address on these Title Spotlight pages. (For now, I’m only looking for the missing numbers on the titles I’ve got Spotlights for \u2014 I will probably post a more detailed “want list” later on.)<\/p>\n

Finally, it is the season \u2014 so anyone who hits copies of Marvel or Archie comics (or any comics) with 2008 Statements, please drop me a line at jjm [ AT ] comichron.com<\/span>. Clear scans are best, although simple numbers work too \u2014 please, also report the issue number and cover date the statement was found in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I realized there was still one section yet to be restored from the previous incarnation of the site \u2014 only, it wasn’t really a section then, and it wasn’t how I wanted to present it. The Yearly Comics Sales section presents rankings of comics sales figures reported in postal Statements of Ownership \u2014 but that’s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,42,45],"class_list":["post-5908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-statements-of-ownership","tag-title-spotlights","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908","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=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5910,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5908\/revisions\/5910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comichron.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}