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?
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?
