size of book publishing market
How many comic books were sold in the US in the 1960s, 70s and 80s? And in the UK?
I’ve been trying to do some research into the health of the comic book industry (US and UK) and I’ve been finding it difficult to get hold of historical sales/circulation information. I can find (spotty) circulation figures for individual titles from past decades – these are available in the Circulation Statements that used to be published in US comics to meet mailing regulations – but I’m looking for details of the size of the overall comics market. I have even found some published estimates for total comics circulations in the US in the 1940s and 1950s. But how many comics IN TOTAL were sold (in the US?) in any given year in the 1960s, 70s and 80s? How many comics titles were being published? How many publishers were there? I would be very grateful for any information – especially published sources I can verify.
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