Western,
1972 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972-10-00 | October 1972 | 1 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.15 USD | quarterly | |
| 1972-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1972-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-01-00 | January 1973 | 2 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 52 | 0.15 USD | quarterly | |
| 1973-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-04-00 | April 1973 | 3 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.15 USD | quarterly | |
| 1973-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-07-00 | July 1973 | 4 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.20 USD | quarterly | |
| 1973-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-10-00 | October 1973 | 5 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.20 USD | quarterly | |
| 1973-10-00 | October 1973 | 5 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.20 USD | quarterly | |
| 1973-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1973-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-01-00 | January 1974 | 6 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 52 | 0.20 USD | Quarterly | |
| 1974-01-00 | January 1974 | 6 [Mark Jewelers] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 52 | 0.20 USD | quarterly | |
| 1974-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-04-00 | April 1974 | 7 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.20 USD | quarterly | |
| 1974-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-07-00 | July 1974 | 8 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.20 USD | quarterly | |
| 1974-07-00 | July 1974 | 8 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.20 USD | ? | |
| 1974-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-10-00 | October 1974 | 9 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | Quarterly | |
| 1974-10-00 | [October 1974] | 9 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.25 USD | ||
| 1974-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1974-12-00 | December 1974 | 1974-09-29 | 10 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | four times a year in April, July, October and December |
| 1974-12-00 | [December 1974] | 10 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.25 USD | ||
| 1975-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-04-00 | April 1975 | 11 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | quarterly | |
| 1975-04-00 | [April 1975] | 11 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.25 USD | ||
| 1975-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-07-00 | July 1975 | 12 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | quarterly | |
| 1975-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-10-00 | October 1975 | 13 [Gold Key Version] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | quarterly | |
| 1975-10-00 | [October 1975] | 13 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.25 USD | ||
| 1975-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1975-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-01-00 | January 1976 | 14 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | quarterly | |
| 1976-01-00 | January 1976 | 14 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.25 USD | quarterly | |
| 1976-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-04-00 | April 1976 | 15 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | Four times a year in April, July, October, and December | |
| 1976-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-07-00 | July 1976 | 16 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.25 USD | four times a year in April, July, October, and December | |
| 1976-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-10-00 | October 1976 | 1976-07-08 | 17 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.30 USD | Published four times a year in April, July, October, and December |
| 1976-10-00 | October 1976 | ? | 17 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.30 USD | Published four times a year in April, July, October, and December |
| 1976-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1976-12-00 | December 1976 | 1976-09-09 | 18 [Gold Key] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Gold Key | 36 | 0.30 USD | four times a year in April, July, October and December |
| 1976-12-00 | December 1976 | 18 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.30 USD | four times a year in April, July, October and December | |
| 1977-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-04-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-07-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-10-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1977-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-04-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-07-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-10-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1978-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-04-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-07-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-10-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1979-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-04-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-07-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-10-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1980-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-04-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-05-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-06-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-07-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-08-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-09-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-10-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-11-00 | ||||||||
| 1981-12-00 | ||||||||
| 1982-01-00 | ||||||||
| 1982-02-00 | ||||||||
| 1982-03-00 | ||||||||
| 1982-04-00 | April 1982 | 19 | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.60 USD | ||
| 1982-04-00 | April 1982 | 19 [White Whitman Logo] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.60 USD |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 [20 cent] | ? | ? | 36 | ? | ||||
| 7 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.20 USD | ? | |||
| 15 [Whitman] | Western Publishing Company Inc. | Whitman W [with Face] | 36 | 0.25 USD | ? |
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.