Example: Batman Chronicles #19 was dated by DC "Winter 2000", by which DC meant 12/1999 to 2/2000. If you use option c, the results will be crazy, especially if you continue to convert "Winter" to "December". When we have a Winter issue, should the year be listed as (a) the year in which this winter began (b) the year in which this winter ended or (c) whatever year DC happened to print on the cover? So you should be clear what our policy is here. Should this be called "Winter 2016" or "Winter 2017"? DC has varied on this question. Example: at this moment (in the northern hemisphere), we are in the "winter" which began in 12/2016 and will end 3/2017. The problem with this system is that DC has, over the years, been very inconsistent with the year associated with "Winter" issues. It appears that you are replacing Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter with March, June, September, December, respectively.
Thus Superman #1 has a cover date of Summer 1939, and Batman Chronicles #19 has a cover date of Winter 2000. Use the date of the actual release for the "Day" field.įor our purposes, it is far more important that you fill out the Month and Year fields correctly, so if you're still confused, just ignore the Day field, and let someone else handle it.įrom the 1930s until the early 2000s, DC sometimes put a season on the cover.Use the date on the cover for the "Month" and "Year" fields.They are two separate functions, even though one relies on the other. The template automatically knows which month and year to categorize with by performing math-miracles on the cover date that's already input. This was a later addition to the template, which helps categorize comics by the week of publication. Perhaps some confusion comes from the Day field, which does use the date of publication. A book that hits shelves in March is removed from shelves in May, even though it says "May" on the cover.įor simplicity's sake, the month and year field use the dates you can see on the cover. For DC, this has typically been a two-month difference. The reason it's called the "pull date" is because the date on the cover is actually the date that retailers are supposed to remove the book from their shelves to make way for new issues. While we might typically call the date on the cover of a comic the "cover date", the correct term is "pull date". The comic industry treats their publications the same way that the magazine industry does. The date on the cover of a comic is not the same as the date the book comes out in stores.
The day field, however, does use the publication date. Do not put the publication month and year in those fields. 2017 on the cover, put "February" in the month field, and 2017 in the Year field. The comic template uses the cover date for its month and year fields. This is all covered on the Comic Template Help page, but just so that everyone knows, let me explain: We've noticed a few people making the mistake of adding the wrong date to comic pages.
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