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The Superfriends & the Justice League of America

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kpaqu1

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I'm leaning towards no effect. The Super-Friends seemed aimed at the Scooby-Doo crowd of 5, 6, 7 year olds. By 1973 the JLA comic seemed geared more to pre-teens or older. The fact that DC produced a separate Super-Friends comic series, with more cartoonish artwork, indicates they saw their market segmentation in a similar way.

 

The Standard Guide lists these circulation figures for the JLA comic in the 1970s. From what I can tell, Super-Friends debuted in September 1973, and the next JLA issue to be published after that was #109. Issues #110-#115 carried the cover tag-line "Here Come TV's Super-Friends."

 

Year Issues Circulation

1970 77 - 86 . 200,715

1971 87 - 95 . 210,108

1972 96 - 103 168,871

1973 104-108 187,051

1974 109-114 189,392

1975 115-125 166,000

1976 126-137 193,000

1977 138-149 151,982

1978 150-161 126,809

1979 162-173 128,660

 

Wow, I started buying in 1972 with issue 100. I've never seen this group of sales figures before. The precipitous drop from 1976 to 1978 is fascinating. It correlates with the introduction of Pong and of computer arcade games sucking up quarters!

 

Have you not heard of the famous DC Implosion?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Implosion

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