Date Stamp Want List? 2 2

[*Bronze age fan*]

 

 

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[*Bronze age fan*]

Added mine to the bottom:

 

List so far:

 

 

mysterio February 4, 1972 or just Feb 1972; Spidey preferred but flexible if a full date

 

 

February is that a 14? 1972.

 

 

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[Park]

When did the date stamps end? 80's?

[DavidTheDavid]

Thanks for bumping this thread! Would love a 3/30/72, a 11/16/72, and a 1/17/?. My dad always purchases coin sets for birthdays. I'm going to do comics. (thumbs u

[*Bronze age fan*]

When did the date stamps end? 80's?

 

 

You see a lot fewer date stamps in the 80s, but once in a while one pops up. But pretty hard to find comic still being date stamped in the 80s.

[*Bronze age fan*]

Thanks for bumping this thread! Would love a 3/30/72, a 11/16/72, and a 1/17/?. My dad always purchases coin sets for birthdays. I'm going to do comics. (thumbs u

 

 

Copy the big list and add the dates your looking for that way. This post will get lost if you don't do that. (thumbs u

[krighton]

Found one of my apr 25 but 1963....close enough

[*Bronze age fan*]

Thanks for bumping this thread! Would love a 3/30/72, a 11/16/72, and a 1/17/?. My dad always purchases coin sets for birthdays. I'm going to do comics. (thumbs u

 

 

This is close.

 

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[DavidTheDavid]

user ID Target Date Flexibility Ideal book

 

Miraclemet February 6, 1975 Flexible Green Lantern/Green Lantern appearances

Robot Brainiac March 21, 1972 Not flexible on the stamp

FlyingDonut June 5, 1964

FlyingDonut February 2, 1965

FlyingDonut February 17, 1990

FlyingDonut August 16, 1995

FlyingDonut August 9, 2000

Buzzetta June 30, 1900 Month, day Amazing Spider-Man

tjdill August 31, 1981 Month, day

Artboy99 July 12, 1965

Crimebuster May 9, 1973 Not flexible on the stamp

*Bronze age fan* May 5, 1972

fiberbiskit September 19, 1975 Not flexible on the stamp

paperheart November 22, 1963

lizards2 March 13, 1961

Awax June 7, 1969

jacks2start1 March 15, 1969 Mar 15 or Mar 69 Spider-Man appearances

Tsp99 October 23, 1900

Tsp100 February 11, 1900

Tsp101 January 25, 1900

Tsp102 April 25, 1900

Tsp103 August 19, 1900

Tsp104 May 18, 1900

Tsp105 December 28, 1900

Wall-Crawler June 2, 1977 Monthy Year Spidey

Peter in Portugal June 28, 1972

Jeffreykli August 1, 1969

Blarfingar July 3, 1972

Mayor006 May 17, 1971 Month Year

The-Collector October 20, 1900 Superhero

thirdgreenham September 29, 1972 or just September 29

wolf_2099 December 13, 1985

Boboset March 1 1983 or just March 1

Dano September 14, 1966

catrick339 August 24, 1954

krighton April 25, 1962 (or close to it)

HarveySwick January 15 1979 // Daredevil #158 Jan 1979

PowderedH2O August 12, 1965

jsilverjanet September 7, 1972 flexible on year; Spidey preferred but flexible

mysterio February 4, 1972 or just Feb 1972; Spidey preferred but flexible if a full date

Davidthedavid January 17, flexible on year, any super hero

Davidthedavid March 30, 1972, any super hero, not flexible on date

[*Bronze age fan*]

Thanks for bumping this thread! Would love a 3/30/72, a 11/16/72, and a 1/17/?. My dad always purchases coin sets for birthdays. I'm going to do comics. (thumbs u

 

 

Day before. It's not that great of a stamp...can just make it out at the top of the comic.

 

March 29, 1972

 

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[Crimebuster]

it's interesting that both of the close calls here are copies of the same book. I've noticed this before in my searches for my own date stamp. My guess is that distributor bundles sent to newsstands all basically had the same title on top of the stack, so whatever the top book in the bundle was would get stamped while the titles beneath it may not. So if you find a book with a date stamp on it, there seems to be a decent chance that other copies of the same issue will also have date stamps in a higher concentration than some other comics that were released the same day.

 

No real data to back this up, just something I have observed going through pages of ebay sales, where issue X might have multiple date stamp copies, while issue Y that came out the same day seems to have none.

[*Bronze age fan*]

One day before my birthday.

 

 

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[DavidTheDavid]

So this all makes me wonder...

 

1) Do date stamps tend to "cluster" on certain numerical days and/or days of the week (which would give spread over time of course)? What were distribution practices back then?

2) Why did the practice start? What was the practical purpose?

3) Why did it stop?

4) Did sellers tend to date them on the arrival date? The dates they were sold? Unboxed?

[Crimebuster]

So this all makes me wonder...

 

1) Do date stamps tend to "cluster" on certain numerical days and/or days of the week (which would give spread over time of course)? What were distribution practices back then?

2) Why did the practice start? What was the practical purpose?

3) Why did it stop?

4) Did sellers tend to date them on the arrival date? The dates they were sold? Unboxed?

 

The answers to #1 and #4 are linked. I believe they were stamped when they arrived. So they do tend to cluster around specific days (I believe comics arrived on Tuesdays, for instance, when I was born in 1973). However, there were delays in shipping - or possibly receiving - meaning that if you have a bunch of copies of the same comic with date stamps, most of them will have the same date, but a few of them might have later dates.

 

The two copies of FF shown last page show this. One is dated March 27, the other March 29. My guess - this is just a guess - is there are a lot more copies with the 27 date than the 29.

 

As an example, I've been looking for a comic with my birthday stamped on it, May 9, 1973. That was a Wednesday. I've found multiple comics with a date stamp of May 8, 1973, including several copies of Daredevil #102. But I did find one copy of that issue that had a date stamp of May 17 on it instead. I have no idea what was going on at that store that caused them to receive it 9 days late, but outliers like that give hope to people like me whose birthdays don't land on distribution days.

 

As for #2 and 3, I think the dates were done by retailers so they would know when the comics came in, so they would then know when to take them down. Since comics were fudging the date on the cover and listing it months in advance. This stopped when the industry went to the direct market model. As a result, there are still some date stamps through the 80's and even into the 90's, but very, very few, as there were far fewer newsstand copies being distributed.

Edited April 2, 2014 by Crimebuster

[Crimebuster]

Stopped at a yard sale today and came away with three pretty late date stamps. For a quarter each, I had to buy them:

 

 

 

The date on the D.P. 7 #10 is May 11, 1987. I'd love to know what newsstand in 1987 was not only stocking D.P.7, but was actually finding people to buy it.

 

The other dates are March 25, 1985 on the Ambush Bug #1 and September 30, 1986 on the Capt. Willy Schultz #77.

Edited August 4, 2014 by Crimebuster

[JollyComics]

Weird idea!

 

3/7/1964

6/1/1976

[Turtle]

I'm resurrecting this thread because I like it and I figure I may as well add my name to the list.

 

04/11/1900 (Year doesn't matter)

 

Amazing Spider-man would be preferred.

 

Also, I have a July 3 book. I PM'd Blarfingar just now, but I see he doesn't post much. If anyone knows him outside of these forums, tell him to check his PM's.

[steveinthecity]

04/11/1900 (Year doesn't matter)

Amazing Spider-man would be preferred.

 

3/7/1964

6/1/1976

You should be adding your names and the dates you're looking for to the master list so they might be more readily found.

[kav]

Hey I got a date stamper and can put any date you guys want on a book

[vaillant]

Hey I got a date stamper and can put any date you guys want on a book