Western, 1968 Series
 

Series Timeline

See series details by issue (displays one row per issue with no gaps, by the regular issue sort order)

This page attempts to show how the issues in this series were published over time by laying them out in a timeline with alternately gray or white rows roughly corresponding to months. The correspondence is less accurate for bi-monthly, quarterly or annual books. Weekly or other more-frequent-than-monthly issues are simply grouped into the same color row by month.

The timeline feature depends on the key date field to order issues into a timeline. Please note that if the key dates are not filled out to correspond to the publication months of the issues, then the timeline will not be accurate.

Key Date Pub. Date On-sale date Number Indicia Publisher Brand Pages Price Frequency
1968-06-00 June 1968 1968-05-21 1 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1968-07-00 August 1968 2 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1968-08-00 September 1968 3 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1968.09.00                
1968-10-00 October 1968 4 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1968-11-00 November 1968 5 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1968-12-00 December 1968 6 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1969-01-00 January 1969 7 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1969-02-00 February 1969 8 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1969-03-10 March 1969 9 ? ? 196 0.50 USD ?
1969-04-00 April 1969 10 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 196 0.50 USD monthly
1969-05-00 May 1969 11 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-06-00 June 1969 12 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-07-00 July 1969 13 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-08-00 August 1969 14 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-09-00 September 1969 15 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-10-00 October 1969 16 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-11-00 November 1969 17 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1969-12-00 December 1969 18 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1970-01-00 January 1970 19 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1970-02-00 February 1970 20 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly
1970.03.00                
1970-04-00 April 1970 21 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD monthly except January, March, May, October, and November
1970.05.00                
1970-06-00 June 1970 22 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD ?
1970-07-00 July 1970 23 ? Gold Key 164 0.50 USD ?
1970-08-00 August 1970 24 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD ?
1970.09.00                
1970-10-00 October 1970 25 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD ?
1970.11.00                
1970-12-10 December 1970 26 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1971.01.00                
1971-02-00 February 1971 1970-12-21 ? 27 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1971.03.00                
1971-04-00 April 1971 1971-02-24 ? 28 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1971.05.00                
1971-06-00 June 1971 29 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1971.07.00                
1971-08-00 August 1971 30 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1971.09.00                
1971-10-00 October 1971 31 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1971.11.00                
1971-12-00 December 1971 32 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1972.01.00                
1972-02-00 February 1972 33 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1972.03.00                
1972-04-10 April 1972 34 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1972.05.00                
1972-06-00 June 1972 35 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 164 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1972.07.00                
1972-08-10 August 1972 36 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1972.09.00                
1972-10-10 October 1972 37 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1972.11.00                
1972-12-10 December 1972 38 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1973.01.00                
1973-02-10 February 1973 39 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1973.03.00                
1973-04-10 April 1973 40 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1973.05.00                
1973-06-10 June 1973 41 ? ? 164 0.50 USD ?
1973.07.00                
1973-08-10 August 1973 42 ? ? 132 0.50 USD ?
1973.09.00                
1973-10-00 October 1973 43 [Whitman Variant] ? Whitman 132 0.69 USD ?
1973-10-10 October 1973 43 ? ? 132 0.50 USD ?
1973.11.00                
1973-12-00 December 1973 44 ? Gold Key 132 0.50 USD ?
1973-12-00 December 1973 44 [Whitman Variant] ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1974.01.00                
1974-02-10 February 1974 45 ? ? 132 0.50 USD ?
1974.03.00                
1974-04-10 April 1974 46 ? ? 132 0.50 USD ?
1974.05.00                
1974-06-00 June 1974 47 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 132 0.50 USD bi-monthly
1974.07.00                
1974-08-00 August 1974 48 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 132 0.59 USD ?
1974.09.00                
1974-10-10 October 1974 49 ? ? 132 0.59 USD ?
1974.11.00                
1974-12-10 December 1974 50 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1975.01.00                
1975-02-10 February 1975 51 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1975.03.00                
1975-04-00 April 1975 52 [Whitman] ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1975-04-10 April 1975 52 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1975.05.00                
1975-06-00 June 1975 53 [Whitman Variant] ? Whitman 132 0.69 USD ?
1975-06-10 June 1975 53 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1975.07.00                
1975-08-00 August 1975 54 [Gold Key] ? Gold Key 132 0.69 USD ?
1975-08-00 August 1975 54 [Whitman] ? Whitman 132 0.69 USD ?
1975.09.00                
1975-10-10 October 1975 55 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1975.11.00                
1975-12-10 December 1975 56 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?
1976.01.00                
1976-02-10 February 1976 57 ? ? 132 0.69 USD ?