![]() As a result, the number of first issues published by Marvel from 1965 through 1967 (excepting annuals and reprint titles) can be counted on the fingers of one hand *. Although Marvel’s sales ultimately contributed to DC’s bottom line, the latter publisher had an obvious interest in keeping Marvel from getting too big, and potentially cutting into their own comic book sales. That may actually be somewhat less of a big deal than my putting it that way makes it sound, since, way back fifty years ago in May, 1968, I’d only been buying Marvel’s books regularly since the beginning of the year - and also because prior to January, 1968, launches of brand-new Marvel comics were pretty rare birds.Īs has been discussed previously on this blog, from 1957 up through the end of 1967 the number of titles that Marvel was allowed to publish was tightly controlled by their distributor, Independent News - which just so happened to be owned by National Periodical Publications, aka DC Comics, Marvel’s largest competitor. ![]() ![]() The subject of today’s post has the distinction of being the first Marvel Comics “first issue” I ever purchased. ![]()
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