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Jason Czeskleba
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Rick Senger wrote:
| So if DC and Marvel had put out thicker, more expensive books they would have stayed on the stands and drug stores, etc.? |
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Both DC and Marvel tried repeatedly in the 70s to make a go of larger, more expensive comic book formats... DC had their 100-page Super Spectaculars (60 cents when a regular comic cost 20) and later their Dollar Comics (when a regular comic was 30 cents). Marvel tried their line of double-sized (and priced) Giant-Size books in 1974-75. Trouble was, none of them sold. Kids invariably chose the smaller, cheaper books, despite the fact that their per page cost was more. So even though newsstands might have liked a larger and more profitable format, kids literally weren't buying it, as long as they had other options.
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Matt Hawes
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That was a change in page count, not format. Of course, during about the same period the two publishers tried Treasury sized comics and they didn't go over, but I feel that was because they went too large in format. I explain more about my thoughts at the thread in the link I shared on this subject, so I will refrain from going into it here.
On the subject of this thread, I am in the process of matching up what covers everyone here has located and placing them into the photo of the book display. It is taking some time, but it's almost like working a puzzle.
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Steve Coates
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Good Luck Matt,
This is about as far as I got
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Robbie Moubert
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I think this is what's behind Spotlight Comics although it would have been on sale since December 1944. It was renamed Suzie Comics with the next issue.
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Robbie Moubert
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Steve has included this in his picture above but here's the full cover:
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Robbie Moubert
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Matt Hawes
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Robbie, nice call on identifying some of those comics in the back rows!
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There's a "Worlds Finest Comics" #18 in the back on one shelf (I am pretty certain it's #18), but I can't get the picture I saved to upload to this thread for the life of me.
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Robbie Moubert
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Allow me!
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This is actually Four Color Comics issue 77 and is the issue before the Porky Pig comic posted earlier in the thread.
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I think this is the comic behind Captain Marvel Jr but can't be certain:
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