Board Thread:Policies/@comment-3361105-20170223213832/@comment-4889195-20170226015459

I think the 3 month change-over to 2 months happened around 1991. It happened at DC & Marvel pretty much simultaneously but smaller publishers seemed to take longer to change up. It was early 1973 when they originally went to 3 month shelf-life. For almost a year in 90-91 there was only 1 month between publication date & pull date. I think the changes have to do with the disappearance of spin racks in mass markets and comics had to fight for the limited shelf space in convenience stores & super markets with news, fashion & lifestyle magazines. That's to the best of me recollection anyway. I remember being somewhat confused with the changes in the early 90s because, at that point, I didn't know there had ever been anything but the 3 month gap and I'd been collecting for almost 20 years by then.