Uncle Scrooge #332 5,405 Circulation.

Mark Baker-Wright nicodemuslegend at cp.fuller.edu
Sat Aug 21 20:03:55 CEST 2004


JTorci3511 at aol.com wrote:

>>"Uncle Scrooge #332  5,405.
>
>And they still think that this elite of 5000 readers counts most 
children....O_O (About a thousand of them should be members of this 
list...)"
>
>Very interesting point, Mickey!  Would you, or someone on this list 
(...I don't have the time to do so, or I would) volunteer to tally up 
the number of American Direct Market readers on this list who are among 
those hallowed 5,405? 
>
>You can count me as a "forty-something-ish" one of those 5,405 American 
readers.  Let's hear from the rest of you. A final tally of this would 
be informative, at the very least.  
>
>Oh, and remember that SALES of 5,405 do not exactly translate into 
5,405 READERS.  A certain amount of copies will remain unsold, or could 
be sold as duplicates. 
>
>Joe Torcivia.   
>


While I expect that there are nowhere near a thousand US sales 
accounted for on this list (a hundred would be pushing it), I should 
note that I (as a fairly-long term list reader, but only occasional 
poster) pretty much only get US when Don Rosa has a story being 
printed, and even then only when it's one I don't already have.  This 
isn't because I'm not at all interested in other Disney artists, but 
because, at nearly $7 an issue, I really can't justify getting US (or 
WDC&S) every month.  The determiner for me comes in whether or not Rosa 
(who I've followed for over a decade and a half now, and is certainly 
my favorite Duck-artist) has a new story coming out.  If and when the 
current comic publishers consider bringing Scrooge stories (not Donald 
Duck or Mickey) down to "normal" prices, I might reconsider this 
position.

Anyway, as a less-than-regular purchaser of US, I'm sure that will skew 
the numbers somewhat.

Mark Baker-Wright

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