Yes, in those days, magazines were printed, and mailed out, or shipped to newstands before their nominal date, in order to be delivered by their nominal date. The intent was that people would have it by January 1st, so it would arrive in late December. So, the January 1975 one would have been written, copyrighted, and printed in November or December 1974. On Mon, 6 May 2024, ED SHARPE via cctalk wrote: > Perhaps After doing the layout work in the November  it was perhaps copyrighted Immediately during layout But it did not ship Until January Think!  back in those days things did not instantly happen and we're instantly shipped  > Ed# > > Sent from AOL on Android > > On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM, Sellam Abraham via cctalk<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: On Fri, May 3, 2024, 1:28 AM Smith, Wayne via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> > wrote: > >> I looked up the Jan. 1975 issue of Popular Electronics in the Copyright >> Office's Periodicals Digest.  It was published on Nov. 19, 1974 if you are >> looking for an actual anniversary date. >> > > The January issue was certainly not available in November of 1974. > > When did it actually get sent out and start showing up in people's > mailboxes? > > Sellam