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Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley
For some reason, a shop owner explained that it had to do with distribution at the time. Marvel could only distribute so many super hero titles and their way around it was to put the heroes in the anthology series. I heard it also had something to do with DC owning or having some sort of relationship with the distributor at the time that prevented Marvel from printing and distributing a ton of hero titles.

Originally Posted by xkonk
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Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley
For some reason, a shop owner explained that it had to do with distribution at the time. Marvel could only distribute so many super hero titles and their way around it was to put the heroes in the anthology series. I heard it also had something to do with DC owning or having some sort of relationship with the distributor at the time that prevented Marvel from printing and distributing a ton of hero titles.

That's about right. They were limited by how many books they could put out period, so they had the anthologies and books also tended to be every other month, so you could have 16 titles even if you only did 8 per month. There's a little bit of the story here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Comics_(1950s)#Layoffs

Originally Posted by Pre_Coder
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Originally Posted by xkonk
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Originally Posted by Studley_Dudley
For some reason, a shop owner explained that it had to do with distribution at the time. Marvel could only distribute so many super hero titles and their way around it was to put the heroes in the anthology series. I heard it also had something to do with DC owning or having some sort of relationship with the distributor at the time that prevented Marvel from printing and distributing a ton of hero titles.

That's about right. They were limited by how many books they could put out period, so they had the anthologies and books also tended to be every other month, so you could have 16 titles even if you only did 8 per month. There's a little bit of the story here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Comics_(1950s)#Layoffs

Also Marvel was using a cheap quality paper at the time, plus they had to use dulled cutting blades because the DC books were cut first. This accounts for the Marvel Chipping on many books from that era.