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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 11, 2022 17:57:36 GMT -5
You can probably get a more accurate guesstimate of how many stars are in the universe but here's what I've got
A quick internet search gets me these estimates DC-51,000 Timely/Atlas/Marvel- 40,000
No idea how close the above numbers are to the truth and I kind of feel Marvel has published more than DC
The Overstreet Price does not mention how many seperate issues are listed in their book [or rather I have not seen it in their latest edition]
On to the Grand Comics Data Base-Here's their statistics
Total issues-1,890,293
Variants -160,853
Indexed-411,265
Covers-1,066,237
The GCDB does include foreign publications, promotional and/or mail-in comics, reprint issues and ,I believe ,tradebooks So, without variants, the GCDB has approximately 1,700,000 Can we guess that 1,000,000 is close to the number for individual issues sold in U.S. newstands and comic shops?
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 12, 2022 8:29:18 GMT -5
that seems really low to me... less than 1000 issues per year? I suppose one could probably used Mike's and count?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jul 12, 2022 8:40:47 GMT -5
that seems really low to me... less than 1000 issues per year? I suppose one could probably used Mike's and count? Maybe you didn't carry the decilmal point over? If we use 1933 as the starting point, that's about 89 years. If we assume 1 million issues, that's 11,235 per year, 936 per month, over 200 per week. Maybe too high?
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 12, 2022 8:59:50 GMT -5
There were only around 5,000 individual comics published in America during the years 1940-44 (including promotional comics) and probably well under 500 in the years prior to that. I'm not done analyzing the output for 1945-49 but it looks like roughly 7,200 were released in that period. Hope that's helpful.
Cei-U! I summon the abacus!
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Post by tonebone on Jul 12, 2022 17:32:57 GMT -5
Now let's figure out how many physical copies of comics have been published...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2022 18:25:36 GMT -5
I can't even figure out how many I own or have read let along how many there are overall. Especially if you are going to include every self-published comic, some of which only sold at local or regional levels, and never get catalogued on sites like the GCD, but they are published comics...
-M
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 12, 2022 21:52:06 GMT -5
that seems really low to me... less than 1000 issues per year? I suppose one could probably used Mike's and count? Maybe you didn't carry the decilmal point over? If we use 1933 as the starting point, that's about 89 years. If we assume 1 million issues, that's 11,235 per year, 936 per month, over 200 per week. Maybe too high? I was more talking about your Marvel and DC estimates then the 1m total. That actually does seem pretty spot on if you could everything I bet.
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Post by tonebone on Jul 13, 2022 8:35:36 GMT -5
I was told there would be no math.
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