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« Reply #32 on: July 19, 2006, 06:32:16 PM »

Speaking of the Adventures of Superman, from September 1951:


April 1953


June 1954


September 1954
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« Reply #33 on: July 19, 2006, 06:34:34 PM »

From March 1941, the notice about the Superman cartoons being produced:


And from February 1948
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« Reply #34 on: July 19, 2006, 06:36:13 PM »

From December 1954...I don't quite get how this is Superman-related..

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« Reply #35 on: July 19, 2006, 06:38:22 PM »

This one is interesting.  Can you imagine how much talk there must have been for DC to put out a full page ad disputing the rumors??  From July 1946.

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« Reply #36 on: July 19, 2006, 07:27:10 PM »

The last one was really interesting, and kind of shows how numbers are hard to interpret, until the effects are so well-known that there is hindsight coming into play.
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« Reply #37 on: July 19, 2006, 09:27:17 PM »

Well, if you are interested in sales, here is one a few years later from January 1953:
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« Reply #38 on: July 19, 2006, 09:28:09 PM »

And then another from September 1962:
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« Reply #39 on: July 19, 2006, 09:43:37 PM »

Are you scanning and organizing these things yourself?  I think they have a lot of value in the overall picture...
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