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[edit] Removed

I've just removed the following, which appears to be vandalism / a joke:

One of the exceptions to the rule was the now-defunct History Today magazine, which was actually dated three months behind.

Shame, though - the idea of a historical history magazine whose issues were always out of date is rather wonderful... - IMSoP (talk) 00:51, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Marvel Comics, 1989

In 1989, Marvel Comics changed its cover-dating system. Most Marvel Comics had 14 issues bearing a 1989 cover date. They each had two additional issues, dated Mid-November and Mid-December.

TRANSFORMERS (1984-1991 series)
48, January, 1989
49, February
50, March
51, April
52, May
53, June
54, July
55, August
56, September
57, October
58, November
59, Mid-November
60, December
61, Mid-December

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeff39212 (talk • contribs) 16:03, 8 April 2008

This is not a cover-dating issue; rather, this is a publication-frequency issue, so there's no need to cover this in the article. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s (this was not restricted to just 1989; it was common throughout the entire period of the late 1980s and early 1990s; some titles also had more than 14 issues, as many as 15 or 16, in one year), both Marvel and DC experimented with departing from a strictly monthly publication schedule, so that some months of the year they put out more than one issue per month. —Lowellian (reply) 07:24, 1 May 2008 (UTC)