User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26975268-20130201045831/@comment-188432-20130220210415

Magazine releases are a bit tricky, especially when it comes to the pre-1991 DWM. After that, we hit a point where we know exactly when DWM came out, because it's on the cover. (Well, it can be extrapolated correctly from the cover, at any rate.)

But before that, DWM might not be so easy to precisely date. It might be something purely for the January (releases) page, for example.

Americna comic books are going to be a bit of a bitch, too, especially Doctor Who (1984). We can probably still find solicitation dates for most IDW issues, but we'll likely have to do some hard core research there.

For DWBIT and DWA, I suspect user:The Librarian might be able to help us sort out the meaning of the cover date, if he chooses to respond to messages on his talk page, which he frequently doesn't. However, he's put in a lot of false information about cover dates in the past, so we might need to ask him then verify elsewhere.