Gold Key, 1970 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 Volume Number Indicia Publisher Brand Pages Price Frequency Barcode
1970-10-00 October 1970 ? 1 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.15 USD Quarterly  
1970.11.00                
1970.12.00                
1971-01-00 January 1971   2 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.15 USD quarterly  
1971.02.00                
1971.03.00                
1971-04-10 April 1971 ? 3 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ?  
1971.05.00                
1971.06.00                
1971-07-10 July 1971 ? 4 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ?  
1971.08.00                
1971.09.00                
1971-10-10 October 1971 ? 5 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.15 USD ?  
1971.11.00                
1971.12.00                
1972-01-10 January 1972 ? 6 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ?  
1972.02.00                
1972.03.00                
1972-04-10 April 1972 ? 7 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ?  
1972.05.00                
1972-06-10 June 1972 ? 8 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ?  
1972-07-10 July 1972 ? 9 ? ? 36 0.20 USD ?  
1972.08.00                
1972-09-00 September 1972   10 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.15 USD bi-monthly  
1972-10-00 October 1972 ? 11 ? Gold Key 36 0.15 USD ?  
1972.11.00                
1972-12-00 December 1972 ? 12 ? Gold Key 52 0.15 USD ?  
1973.01.00                
1973-02-00 February 1973 ? 13 ? Gold Key 36 0.15 USD ?  
1973.03.00                
1973-04-00 April 1973 ? 14 ? Gold Key 36 0.15 USD ?  
1973.05.00                
1973-06-00 June 1973 ? 15 ? Gold Key 36 0.20 USD ?  
1973-07-00 July 1973 ? 16 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.20 USD ?  
1973-08-00 August 1973 ? 17 ? Gold Key 36 0.20 USD ?  
1973.09.00                
1973-10-10 October 1973 ? 18 ? ? 36 0.20 USD ?  
1973.11.00                
1973-12-00 December 1973 ? 19 ? Gold Key 52 0.20 USD ?  
1974.01.00                
1974-02-10 February 1974 ? 20 ? ? 36 0.20 USD ? ?
1974.03.00                
1974-04-10 April 1974 ? 21 ? ? 36 0.20 USD ? ?
1974.05.00                
1974-06-10 June 1974 ? 22 ? ? 36 0.20 USD ? ?
1974-07-10 July 1974 ? 23 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ? ?
1974-08-00 August 1974   24 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD monthly except January, March, May, September and November. ?
1974.09.00                
1974-10-00 October 1974   25 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD    
1974-10-00 October 1974   25 [Whitman cover] Western Publishing Company, Inc. Whitman 36 0.25 USD    
1974.11.00                
1974-12-10 December 1974 ? 26 ? ? 36 0.15 USD ? ?
1975.01.00                
1975-02-10 February 1975 ? 27 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1975.03.00                
1975-04-10 April 1975 ? 28 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1975.05.00                
1975-06-10 June 1975 ? 29 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1975-07-10 July 1975 ? 30 ? ? 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1975-08-00 August 1975   31 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD monthly except January, March, May, September and November. ?
1975.09.00                
1975-10-10 October 1975 ? 32 ? ? 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1975.11.00                
1975.12.00                
1976-01-10 January 1976 ? 33 ? ? 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1976-02-00 February 1976   34 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.25 USD four times a year in May, August, September, and November. ?
1976.03.00                
1976.04.00                
1976.05.00                
1976.06.00                
1976.07.00                
1976-08-10 August 1976 ? 35 ? ? 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1976-09-00 September 1976 ? 36 ? Gold Key 36 0.25 USD ? ?
1976.10.00                
1976-11-10 November 1976 ? 37 ? ? 36 0.30 USD ? ?
1976.12.00                
1977.01.00                
1977.02.00                
1977.03.00                
1977-04-10 April 1977 ? 38 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.30 USD ? ?
1977.05.00                
1977.06.00                
1977-07-10 July 1977 ? 39 ? ? 36 0.30 USD ? ?
1977.08.00                
1977-09-00 September 1977   40 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.30 USD five times a year in January, April, July, September and October. ?
1977-10-10 October 1977 ? 41 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.30 USD ? ?
1977.11.00                
1977.12.00                
1978-01-00 January 1978 ? 42 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 36 0.35 USD ? ?
1978.02.00                
1978.03.00                
1978-04-00 April 1978 ? 43 [Gold Key] ? Gold Key 36 0.35 USD ? ?
1978-04-00 April 1978 ? 43 [Whitman] ? Whitman 36 0.35 USD ? ?
1978-05-00 May 1978   44 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 68 0.60 USD bi-monthly ?
1978.06.00                
1978-07-10 July 1978 ? 45 ? ? 68 0.60 USD ? ?
1978.08.00                
1978-09-10 September 1978 ? 46 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 68 0.60 USD ? ?
1978.10.00                
1978-11-10 November 1978 ? 47 ? ? 68 0.60 USD ? ?
1978.12.00                
1979-01-10 January 1979   48 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 68 0.60 USD bi-monthly ?
1979.02.00                
1979-03-00 March 1979 ? 49 ? Gold Key 52 0.60 USD ? ?
1979.04.00                
1979-05-00 May 1979   50 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 52 0.60 USD bi-monthly ?
1979.06.00                
1979-07-10 July 1979 ? 51 ? ? 52 0.60 USD ? ?
1979.08.00                
1979-09-00 September 1979 ? 52 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 52 0.60 USD ? ?
1979.10.00                
1979-11-00 November 1979 ? 53 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 52 0.60 USD ? ?
1979.12.00                
1980-01-00 January 1980 ? 54 Western Publishing Company, Inc. Gold Key 52 0.60 USD ? ?