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I discovered that sales of the Dandy in the 1950s peaked at 2035010 on the 22nd April 1950 and nowadays average 28000 per fortnight. I wonder whether anyone knows where I could find records of the Dandy's sales year by year, which would show a clear decline in sales, which I would argue is due to a ...

I think this new policy is ridiculous. It means ebay will be making more profit from us, when they aren't doing anything and we're doing all the hard work. As someone said, we will now have to charge £3.30 for a comic we would have originally sold for £0.99 and no-one is going to pay that. I ...

Thanks for that link, hope I don't have to use it though haha. Yeah I thought that was very expensive, although I got excited as it's similar to my collection! He relisted it and then removed it. Ebay listed the reason as - item no longer listed for sale, so I emailed him asking if it was still for ...

Tony has lost his job and has no money, so he might not be able to keep the website going anymore. If you want to help him, you can donate money. He even tried selling his collection on ebay, so he must be desperate! It didn't sell and he's trying to sell his stamp collection for £15000 instead ...

There's also www.tonystrading.co.uk

I never knew DC Thomson owned findmypast. Very interesting info - thanks. I just hope they don't raise the subscription price to genesreunited.

The project has to be controversial, in that there is scope for some debate. My idea is evidently controversial, as there have been over 60 replies, each stating a different point of view. It might well be that it is controversial because it is wrong in stating that the Dandy was once educational ...

Sorry for the delay in replying, my computer broke.

They already tried reviving Jumbo, it only appeared in the comic once (1998 60th birthday issue) but The History of The Beano displayed some artwork.

Lew, which comics are doing worse than Dandy? I know DFC was, due to it's absence from the ...

You're right about the Apollonian ideals, AJ. They might not have been the most Apollonian comics of their time, and I suppose that might be why they have been so successful. They were radical and different from anything that had preceded them. Hmm, my argument is beginning to sound flawed. Maybe ...

Thanks again - I didn't expect such great responses!

You may be right about the baby boom, Steve. I'm sure there are lots of factors, causing a slow and gradual decline in sales, so I'll have to list them all. The research is taking a long time. I have to read lots of things just to find something ...

Thanks for all your comments.

Yes I realise the sales in 1950 were a bit of a fluke - I believe it was because paper rationing ended and that was the first date on which DCThomson increased circulation. Would you happen to know what the consistent, average sales figures were for this period please ...

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Hi,

I am 17 and will start in the upper sixth in September. I have been a collector of annuals for 10 years. I am doing an extended project, which is a 6000 word project akin to the dissertations you would have to do at University. I have to conduct all the research, with minimal support from ...