Comic Book Talk

General comics question

When a specific comic is talked about (ie, that time Batman and the Joker teamed up) they always reference the issue number

That happened in in Detective Comics 228

That's great, but when was that? Was that issue in March 1958? October 1977? July 1991?

I never understood why they don't add the date in addition to the issue number

It's always been a pet peeve of mine