Has any other comic gone on to last 25 issues ... after coming out only every TWO years over the course of its first 4 issues. (For that matter, just how many every-2-year comics have there been, period?)

ASBAR?

Interesting. In completing the run, I think I had the most problem with the final few issues ... though I think #10 is the one that eluded me the longest, for whatever reason.

I've been having some luck tracking down the later issues, but I don't have from 1972-1976.

I had a copy of #1, but I gave it to our good friend Michi for his birthday a while back.

I've had no problems finding the Dell issues, but a much tougher time with the early GKs.

This is unconfirmed info, as I don’t have many of the early 70s issues, and the GCD has next to no info on the series.

I have the complete run, though of course not here at work, but here's the breakdown as given by Lone Star Comics (which I often use to supplement gaps on the GCD, not to mention when the latter is down) --

1 -- 10/68
2 -- 11/70
3 -- 11/72
4 -- 11/74
5 -- 2/75
6 -- 5/75
7 -- 8/75
8 -- 11/75
9 -- 1/76
10 -- 5/76
11 -- 8/76
12 -- 11/76
13 -- 1/77
(name change)
14 -- 6/78
15 -- 7/78
16 -- 8/78
17 -- 9/78
18 -- 11/78
19 -- 11/79
20 -- 4/79
21 -- 6/79
22 -- 8/79
23 -- 10/79
24 -- 12/79
25 -- 2/80

That's a pretty checkered publishing history. Has any other comic gone on to last 25 issues (or even 13, if one is of a mind to regard "UFO Flying Saucers"& UFO & "Outer Space" as separate entities) after coming out only every TWO years over the course of its first 4 issues. (For that matter, just how many every-2-year comics have there been, period?)

For the record - the one with the cowboy was the first I bought off the racks (in a 3-pack, IIRC)

Dan - as for Gold Key's 'UFO and Flying Saucers', as far as I can tell - one issue was published in each of 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976 and four issue were published in 1977. It was renamed in 1978. UFO & Outer Space was published four times in 1978, 1979 and 1980.

This is unconfirmed info, as I don't have many of the early 70s issues, and the GCD has next to no info on the series.

Did either of the Warren book or the Marvel Preview issue feature 'real stories' or were they original stories?

David - I'm trying to forget what little I know of the Eerie Publications magazines. Although, a feature on their craziest covers might be fun.

It's really amazing how much work people like Sparling and Stone did during the late 60s and early 70s.

Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't see the flick the first time around (too immersed in college, I guess, though I did catch a 1980 "Special Edition" screening) & just wasn't making the connection. No doubt that's also behind Warren's coming out with its reprint one-shot "UFO & Alien Comix" & Marvel devoting "Marvel Preview 13" to "The UFO Connection."

After the '50s, the two big "flaps" of UFO sightings in the U.S. occurred in '67 & '73 (during which latter year, the GCD indicates, precisely *no* issues of the Gold Key series appeared, for some bizarre reason). From glancing at the GCD, the 12-issue sequence you're referring to would've been from '78-'80. What might've been going on then, I'm not sure ... but maybe I'm overlooking something obvious.