how many Buster issues?

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Re: how many Buster issues?

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Kid Robson wrote:
Tammyfan wrote:I always thought it was a pity Buster didn't make it to 2000 and celebrate his 40th.
Me too. The last issue was dated into January 2000 (the date that a new issue would've come out had the last one not been the last, if you see what I mean), but it would've had to survive to May to mark its 40th year. Egmont should've kept it going 'til then, then bowed out on a birthday ish.
Maybe it was not economic to keep Buster going until May. Perhaps he was losing money and sales, even with reprints, and they had to cut losses. At any rate, an all-reprint comic with no fresh material, and no other comic left to
merge into it and give it new blood and readers, is not a good sign.

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It was either 1902 or 1903 issues.

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so still no final total :lol: i have 1.904 issues written down in my book.

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I've tried to attach an excel sheet with what i believe to be the correct dates, issue numbers & unpublished issues, but the filetype (xlsx) is not allowed. You can get it direct from https://www.mediafire.com/?5ysyuua5dyrtcnp

Of course, if you know of any errors, please let me know so i can update, but i know i spent about 3 or 4 weeks checking various sites, & i'm 99% certain this is accurate. I know that i don't have any issues that are listed as 'no issue'.

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I can turn the spreadsheet from Excel 2007 to the older format (.xls) one I get home from getting the mail, and I'll upload it to my server.

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i think we need someone to count their own collection if such a legend exists who owns every issue,but i spent ages looking through internet sites as well and came up with 1,904 issues published and i only own about 1,100 or there about's.this is a list of published issues i found years ago.
1960 - 32 issues
1961 - 52 issues
1962 - 52 issues
1963 - 52 issues
1964 - 52 issues
1965 - 52 issues
1966 - 53 issues
1967 - 52 issues
1968 - 52 issues
1969 - 52 issues
1970 - 44 issues
1971 - 48 issues
1972 - 53 issues
1973 - 52 issues
1974 - 42 issues
1975 - 50 issues
1976 - 52 issues
1977 - 53 issues
1978 - 52 issues
1979 - 51 issues
1980 - 48 issues edit 44
1981 - 52 issues
1982 - 52 issues
1983 - 53 issues
1984 - 52 issues
1985 - 52 issues
1986 - 52 issues
1987 - 52 issues
1988 - 53 issues
1989 - 52 issues
1990 - 52 issues
1991 - 52 issues
1992 - 52 issues
1993 - 52 issues edit 51
1994 - 51 issues
1995 - 26 issues
1996 - 26 issues
1997 - 26 issues
1998 - 27 issues
1999 - 26 issues
but this list i got adds up to 1,906 so dunno what to believe :D
Edit now 1,901
Last edited by big bad bri on 05 Jan 2016, 16:06, edited 1 time in total.

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My list differs to yours on 1971, 1980 & 1994 - i have the first 5 weeks of 1971 as having no issues, making 47 for the rest of the year. For 1980, i have 4 issues missing between 19th Jan - 9th Feb inclusive, plus another 4 between 15th May - 7th June inclusive, making 44 in 1980. In 1994, the 16th Dec is a double issue, to cover 2 weeks, making 52 issues for that year. This totals to 6 less than yours. In addition to this, i think the christmas/new year issues of 1993-94 may be 1 double issue.

So hopefully, we can work out from this, how many actual issues there were. If anyone can confirm that they don't have issues in these periods, that should be a fairly solid answer.

I also noticed an error on the list i uploaded, i had the final issue of 1998 listed as the first issue of 1999.

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you are right about 1980 there was 44 issues my list is wrong and i just counted mine and i have 43 of those.so that is down to 1,902.

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hankshanklin wrote:In addition to this, i think the christmas/new year issues of 1993-94 may be 1 double issue.
That's correct, the issue dated January 1, 1994 does not exist.
Check out my blog about comics from other peoples' childhood: http://kazoop.blogspot.com

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big bad bri wrote:i think we need someone to count their own collection if such a legend exists who owns every issue
As it is highly unlikely that any member will have bought every issue of Buster as it came out over a forty-year period, and then saved them, would it not make more sense, Bri, to ask members which full years they are pretty certain they have got, and then encourage all interested members to work together towards the actual total number of issues one year at a time?

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Well, I didn't buy them when they first came out, but I only need 6 more issues to complete the set...
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klakadak-ploobadoof wrote:
hankshanklin wrote:In addition to this, i think the christmas/new year issues of 1993-94 may be 1 double issue.
That's correct, the issue dated January 1, 1994 does not exist.
yes i have just seen that as well so that's down t0 1.901 now.

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I do have a complete set but the notes I kept during its completion are long gone and it would be quite a task to count up the individual issues as my Buster collection is stored in three separate locations in the house, two of which are not really readily accessible.

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Phoenix wrote:
big bad bri wrote:i think we need someone to count their own collection if such a legend exists who owns every issue
As it is highly unlikely that any member will have bought every issue of Buster as it came out over a forty-year period, and then saved them, would it not make more sense, Bri, to ask members which full years they are pretty certain they have got, and then encourage all interested members to work together towards the actual total number of issues one year at a time?
That works too Phoenix i'm currently counting and sorting my full years now.so lets get this sorted once and for all members :lol:

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klakadak-ploobadoof wrote:Well, I didn't buy them when they first came out, but I only need 6 more issues to complete the set...
So when you get the remaining six, KP, as you are confident that you will then have the full run, counting a double issue as two issues how many issues will you have? Your answer should put the matter to bed.

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