The Old 29 - DC Comics for August 1982

Just for kicks and giggles, I hopped on over to the DC Database wiki, where there's a handy list for all of the comics that DC published in August 1982:

• Action Comics #534 (super-hero)
• All-Star Squadron #12 (super-hero)
• Arak #12 (fantasy)
• Batman #350 (super-hero)
• The Brave and the Bold #189 (super-hero)
• Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew #6 (funny animal/super-hero)
• DC Comics Presents #48 (super-hero)
• Detective Comics #517 (super-hero)
• Flash #312 (super-hero)
• Fury of Firestorm #3 (super-hero)
• G.I. Combat #244 (war)
• Green Lantern #155 (super-hero)
• House of Mystery #307 (horror/mystery)
• Jonah Hex #63 (western)
• Justice League of America #205 (super-hero)
• Legion of Super-Heroes #290 (super-hero)
• The New Teen Titans #22 (super-hero)
• Night Force #1 (horror/mystery)
• Sgt. Rock #367 (war)
• Superboy #32 (super-hero)
• Superman Family #221 (super-hero)
• Superman #374 (super-hero)
• The Saga of the Swamp Thing #4 (horror/mystery)
• Tales of the New Teen Titans #3 (super-hero) (mini-series)
• The Unknown Soldier #266 (war)
• The Warlord #60 (fantasy)
• Weird War Tales #114 (war)
• Wonder Woman #294 (super-hero)
• World's Finest #282 (super-hero)

(They also published two reprint digests: Best of DC #27: Superman vs. Luthor; and DC Blue Ribbon Digest #24: The House of Mystery.)

That's 19 super-hero titles, 4 war, 3 horror/mystery, 2 fantasy, and 1 western; for a total of 29 comics published by DC that month.

Most titles were 60¢—$1.48 in 2014 dollars—for 25 pages of comics. (Exceptions were G.I. Combat, Superman Family, and World's Finest, each $1.00—$2.46 in 2014 dollars.) (Inflation figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator.)

In August 2014, DC published a whopping 76 different titles! 60 super-hero titles, 8 horror/mystery, 5 fantasy, 1 science fiction, 1 war, and 1 western. Many are $2.99 for 20 pages of comics; some are $3.99 for 22 pages of comics, a few are $4.99 for 35-38 pages of comics.

(Of course, today's DC comics have higher quality production—coloring, paper quality, etc.—which may or may not be worth the extra cost to you.)

Why August 1982? August because the latest figures I have are for August 2014. 1982 because that's about the time that I started buying comics in earnest. (I bought 10 those 29 comics.)

I may decide to do this again for 1952, 1962, 1972 & 1992—one a week for October.