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{{short description|Date shown on a periodical}}
The '''cover date''' of a [[periodical publication]] is the date displayed on the cover, which is not necessarily the true date of [[publication]] (the '''on-sale date'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> or '''release date'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA; 'Release date (comics)' redirects here-->); later cover dates are common in [[magazine]] and [[comic book]] publishing. More unusually, ''[[Le Monde]]'' is a [[daily newspaper]] published the afternoon before its cover date. For some publications, the cover date may not be found on the [[Book cover|cover]], but rather on an inside jacket or on an interior page.
==Magazines==
In the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, the standard practice is to display on magazine covers a date which is some weeks or months in the future from the
Weeklies (such as ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' and ''[[Newsweek]]'') are generally dated a week ahead. Monthlies (such as ''[[National Geographic
In other countries, the cover date usually matches more closely the date of publication, and may indeed be identical where weekly magazines are concerned.
In all markets, it is rare for monthly magazines to indicate a particular day of the month: thus issues are dated ''May
==Comic books==
The general practice of most mainstream [[comic book]] companies since the creation of the comic book in the 1930s was to date individual issues by putting the name of a month (and much later the year as well) on the cover which was generally two months after the
Of the two major American comic book publishers, [[DC Comics]] continues to put cover dates on the [[Book cover|cover]]. [[Marvel Comics]]
==References==
[[Category:Magazines]]▼
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[[Category:Magazine publishing]]
[[Category:Date and time representation]]
[[Category:Comics terminology]]
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