[rez]

What's the deal with the early '40s Captain Aero

in that I have an issue reading September No.11 on the cover but the indica on the inside front cover reads Vol3 No.9?

Thanks

[Aussie500]

Sorry explanations of weird numbering is beyond me and l absolutely hate it when issues are divided into volumes, l am a straight out give me the issue number type girl. Often publishers continued the numbering from a previous unrelated series, something to do with U.S. Postal Service regulations, mailing costs and paper shortages at the time, we would need an expert to explain it. Hope this info helps rez.

Captain Aero Comics (Samson 1-6)
v1 007(#1) Dec, 1941
v1 008(#2) Feb, 1942
v1 009(#3) Mar, 1942
v1 010(#4) Apr, 1942
v1 011(#5) May, 1942
v1 012(#6) Jun, 1942

v2 001(#7) Jul, 1942
v2 002(#8) Sep, 1942
v2 003(#9) Nov, 1942
v2 004(#10) Jan, 1943

v3 009(#11) Sept, 1943
v3 010(#12) Nov, 1943
v3 011(#13) Jan, 1944
v3 012(#14) Apr, 1944
v3 013(#15) Jun, 1944

v4 002(#16) Aug, 1944
v4 003(#17) Oct, 1944

021 Dec, 1944
022 Apr, 1945
023 Aug, 1945
024 Nov, 1945
025 Feb, 1946
026 Aug, 1946

There is apparently no #18-20 l will leave you to come to a conclusion about the logic of the numbering.

[John C]

The short version, as I understand it, is that the Post Office required new paperwork and fees for every new title.  Therefore, companies would recycle old titles until the Post Office caught on, at which point there'd be a new issue numbered one.

Volumes confound me, though, to the point where I think they're just arbitrary.  Notice that, for example, Novelty Press runs issues one through twelve (or six or four...or five, in the case of that one Captain Aero block...) every year in a new volume, but Fawcett always counts up, despite having a volume number.

I suspect that volumes might be a possible copyrighting artifact--at one time, you could register an entire year's worth of periodicals as if it were a book--but none of the comic book companies took significant advantage of that, from what I can tell.  That could by why they don't make any sense--they could have just aped a randomly-selected magazine without considering the reason for it.

[rez]

Been trying to arrange my PD to scan pile for posting in the thread about the same so folks won't be buying dupes of something that is already available when I came across the Captain Aero snafu that got me wondering. (If you think that run-on sentence was bad try reading Bucky Fuller's stuff. He beats Alan Greenspan hands down.)

Still would like to have a rough estimate of the total number of PD Goldenage books that were titled and number. If there is like 5000 books scanned here now would we be halfway home?

I did send off an email to Dan Stevenson a while back at JVJ's advice but have no way of knowing if it ever reached his eyes.

It's going to take a goodly number of folks working together to pull this all off. Your continued work behind the scenes is surely appreciated. Thank you.



I suspect that volumes might be a possible copyrighting artifact--at one time, you could register an entire year's worth of periodicals as if it were a book--but none of the comic book companies took significant advantage of that, from what I can tell.
That makes alot of sense. Leaning towards the fact that was the reason. Thanks

[BountyHunter]

Does he get his powers from chocolate bars?

[rez]

I dunno but if you come up with a realible rough estimate of the total number of PD Goldenage books that were titled and numbered I'll buy you one!

Does he get his powers from chocolate bars?

[narfstar]

Rez why aren't you working todya? I took off because I knew I would be up late last night. Got to go to bed earlier than I expected but already had a sub scheduled for today.

[rez]

Work is like 'to be scanned' comics.
It is always going to be there.

Had to get that 'thorn in my side' book out of here!
snorK*