Barcode on cover - First book with one? 2 2

[Junkdrawer]

Just wondering what was the first official comic book with the barcode on it.

[miraclemet]

Marvel releases from Jun '76 had them and it looks like DC in May of '76 did too... not sure which specific book hit the stands first... or did other publishers use the UPCs before that?

Edited January 24, 2013 by Miraclemet

[miraclemet]

Do Digest's count?

 

I see an Archie Comic Digest from Feb of '76 showing a UPC... of course they were more distributed in grocery stores so that'd make sense.

[DiceX]

First Mad was April 1978.

 

 

 

[miraclemet]

And I see Charlton using them as early as October of '75

[miraclemet]

I think Charlton is the winner, looks like Gold Key and Harvey didnt adopt until after DC/Marvel...

[montrealfilmguy]

I only know this bit of trivia.

 

 

The first ever commercial product to be bought with a barcode was a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum. It was purchased at Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, USA, on June 26, 1974, by Clyde Dawson. It was scanned by Sharon Buchanan at 8:01 am.The historic pack of gum and the receipt are now on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[miraclemet]

Anyone know? Was Charlton distributed most widely thru grocery stores and therefor adopted the UPC thing earlier?

[montrealfilmguy]

Can you imagine the tour at the Smithsonian ?

 

 

"look Henrietta,The Hope diamond,the Gettysburg address John Dillinger's penis...pack of Juicy fruit ? "

Edited January 24, 2013 by montrealfilmguy

[Mark 1]

John Dillinger's is in the Smithsonian?

[montrealfilmguy]

John Dillinger's is in the Smithsonian?

 

 

Well,i was looking for a few items to put in my funny and i came across this,but i think if i do a bit of research,i'm pretty sure it's only always been like a famous myth.

[Professor K]

Captain America Annual 3 seems to be the 1st Marvel.

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:1976,_January

DC seems to have began in March 1976 on 2 issues.

https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Category:1976,_March

I had always thought Daredevil 131 was the 1st Marvel, with that weird yellow barcode

[Junkdrawer]

Well that took long enough for a reply 

Hope you weren’t on this for the last 6 yrs. 

thanks

[jcjames]

On 1/24/2013 at 2:55 PM, montrealfilmguy said:

I only know this bit of trivia.

 

 

The first ever commercial product to be bought with a barcode was a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum. It was purchased at Marsh’s Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, USA, on June 26, 1974, by Clyde Dawson. It was scanned by Sharon Buchanan at 8:01 am.The historic pack of gum and the receipt are now on display in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mmmmmm... juicy fruit.

 

[lizards2]

I remember buying my first bar-coded comics where they actually scanned them in.  It was in a grocery store in Bend, Oregon in the summer of 1976.  I was mortified that the checker was sliding the comics over the scanner - aaaarrrgh!  A potential new source of damage!

[Yesterdays]

Charlton was almost definitely the first publisher to use barcodes on comics, in 1975. As I remember it, though, the early ones were dummies--that is, no matter the title, the barcodes were the same. Think I read that in The Comic Reader, during the time when I was working in book and magazine distribution. I remember pointing that out to the Charlton rep on one of his visits to the warehouse where I worked, but he argued with me that, no, the scanner could tell the difference even though the barcodes all looked exactly the same. It would be interesting to examine Charltons from that period to see if my memories are correct.

[Patrick Horn]

June 1975, Charleton's The great Gazoo

[badback83]

32 minutes ago, Patrick Horn said:

June 1975, Charleton's The great Gazoo

WTTB!

[djpinkpanther67]

On 4/19/2019 at 8:51 AM, lizards2 said:

I remember buying my first bar-coded comics where they actually scanned them in.  It was in a grocery store in Bend, Oregon in the summer of 1976.  I was mortified that the checker was sliding the comics over the scanner - aaaarrrgh!  A potential new source of damage!

I was at the little deschutes camping ground just outside Bend, for a couple weeks, summer of ‘76. 

[lizards2]

1 minute ago, djpinkpanther67 said:

On 4/19/2019 at 5:51 AM, lizards2 said:

I remember buying my first bar-coded comics where they actually scanned them in.  It was in a grocery store in Bend, Oregon in the summer of 1976.  I was mortified that the checker was sliding the comics over the scanner - aaaarrrgh!  A potential new source of damage!

I was at the little deschutes camping ground just outside Bend, for a couple weeks, summer of ‘76. 

Whatever happened, it wasn't me.