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Veegee1 Posts: 1
3/22/2021
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Hi.
Does anyone know of a good, reliable source to find documented
print runs for comicx?
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Oxbladder Posts: 487
3/24/2021
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Comichron goes back into the 90's for direct market numbers. That's the closest you are going to get. With the early numbers you have to consider that only the biggest two distributors at that time were tracked. After '95, I think, the two distributors change for a short time and then it is just Diamond numbers until last year when DC started going at distribution on their own. I assume that that means Comichron would have two distributors to track. All through this time period there is no public data from the publishers of the actual numbers. Since there is still a tiny newsstand presence and other uncounted numbers for other sources you cannot consider Comichron numbers to be the final word on any print run size .... at least out of the big two and Archie Comics.
Keep in mind that variants are accounted for in those numbers but not later printings. Later printings are all account for separately and will appear much later than the same month as the first printing.
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