Webbing Vs. Heat Vision
Over at Yet Another Comics blog, Dave Carter whipped up some numbers to find out when Amazing Spider-Man will catch up to the numbering of Action Comics Both books are arguably the flagship titles for their respective companies (even if they don't always sell the best) so it's an interesting, if ineffectual nugget of information.
Now that Amazing Spider-Man is being published three times a month, when will it catch up in its numbering to Action Comics?Assuming that ASM keeps its thrice-monthly publication, and that Action continues to come out once a month (not a guarantee, especially lately...), we can do a little quick back-of-the-napkin algebra:
Issue #554 of ASM is the last one published in March; Action didn't publish an issue in March (see what I mean!) though #862 came out in February. So, let x = the number of months until the two titles reach numbering parity, and we get:
554 + 3x = 862 + X
2x = 308
x = 154So in 154 months; or 12 years, 10 months from now; i.e. January 2020, with issue #1016.
This has been your useless comics math calculation of the day :)
Amazing Spider-Man debuted with a March 1963 cover date while Action Comics popped onto the scene in June 1938 (actually the book appeared in April, but the cover date is June). After a issue restart with a new #1 in January of 1999, Webhead's main book jumped back to the original numbering with #500 in December 2003.
Goblin
Posted to Comics, Superheroes on 19 March 2008
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