Walk into any newsagent and you will see rows and rows of magazines and periodicals covering all interests and genres with a weekly, monthly or quarterly publication date. Similarly, drop into your local comic shop and you are likely to see a similar arrangement with racks of comics, sometimes arranged with the week’s release first and then by publisher or perhaps just alphabetically.
When the shelf life of these monthly comics (and the magazines/periodicals in the newsagents) has expired the accepted terminology for these old editions is ‘back issue’. But how do you classify exactly what a back issue is and when does a new comic officially become a back issue?
When is a comic classed as a ‘Back Issue’?
There’s clearly a number of differing answers to this question but in the loosest sense a back issue is anything published before the current issue that is on the shelf or stand.
When the shelf life of these monthly comics (and the magazines/periodicals in the newsagents) has expired the accepted terminology for these old editions is ‘back issue’. But how do you classify exactly what a back issue is and when does a new comic officially become a back issue?
When is a comic classed as a ‘Back Issue’?
There’s clearly a number of differing answers to this question but in the loosest sense a back issue is anything published before the current issue that is on the shelf or stand.
- 6/27/2022
- by Guest
- Nerdly
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