Archie, 1953 Series
 

Series Timeline

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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.

Not all issues in this series have key dates, so not all can be sorted into a timeline. The following issues can be sorted:

Key Date Pub. Date On-sale date Number Indicia Publisher Brand Pages Price Frequency Publisher's Age Guidelines
1953-00-00 1953 1 Close-Up Inc.   100 0.25 USD annually  
1953-00-00 1953 1 [Canadian] Close-Up Inc.   100 0.35 CAD annually  
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1953-12-00                  
1954-01-00 1954 1954-01 2 Close-Up Inc.   100 0.25 USD Annually  
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1955-00-00 1955 1955 3 Close-Up Inc.   100 0.25 USD Annual Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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1956-00-00 1956 4 Close-Up Inc.   90 0.25 USD Annually Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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1957-00-00 1957 1957 5 Close-Up Inc.   100 0.25 USD once a year Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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1958-00-00 1958 6 Close-Up Inc.   82 0.25 USD annual Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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1959-00-00 1959 7 Close-Up Inc. Archie Giant Series 84 0.25 USD Annual Approved by the Comics Code Authority
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1960-01-29 [January] 1960 1960-01-29 8 Close-Up Inc. Archie Giant Series 84 0.25 USD   Approved by the Comics Code Authority

These issues have no key date and cannot be placed in a timeline:

Key Date Pub. Date On-sale date Number Indicia Publisher Brand Pages Price Frequency Publisher's Age Guidelines
1 [British] Close-Up Inc.   100 ? ?
2 [Canadian] Close-Up Inc.   90 ? ?
5 [35ยข] Close-Up Inc.   100 ? Approved by the Comics Code Authority