Comic Book Talk

Optimus Prime said

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

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I forgot when they stopped doing that, but it's been so long it doesn't phase me at all. It confuses the hell out of some people especially when there are re-launches (looking at you Marvel). They rely on you to look inside, or understand how to read the current barcode format, to know what volume of the series your reading. I was happy when DC started moving things back to legacy numbering on their main books (first Action and Detective, now Flash and Wonder Woman as well). I fully expect that once we get past issue #100 of Batman next month, we'll be getting an announcement that Batman will be returning to legacy numbering as well, especially since it's the next book in line to reach issue #1000. It should reach it before Spider-Man (Marvel's closest) does.