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What do you do when a comic is either falling to bits or has rips and tears that you don't want to get any worse? If it's a really valuable comic and you're concerned about its investment potential, then perhap it's best to leave it alone and just be exrta-careful when handling it. However, if you ...

When I was a kid, I was never bought such publications, but I remember buying the first issue (as a 12 year old) of Little Star, even 'though I was well beyond the target age. When I was in my 20s, I bought the first few issues of Marvel U.K.'s Story Time (or was it Story Land?), which reprinted a l...

I saw the Craig Graham-helmed Dandy as an attempt to make an "all-ages" comic that was child-friendly yet which also appealed to adults. And we all know how much you enjoyed that, Kid. :wink: Well, I'm not sure if it was ever designed to appeal to adults, but whatever it was attempting to do, it fa...

If kids are no longer buying the Beano why not aim it at adults? I think Private Eye sells pretty well and Punch has never been replaced so why not make the Beano an adult humour/cartoon magazine? I know for a fact the Weekly News receives dozens of gag cartoons each week and can only use a fractio...

Phoenix wrote:Words simply fail me!!

We can only wish it becomes a permanent condition.

I didn't dismiss their opinions. I just think the opinion of a child is more valid than that of an adult when it comes to children's comics. And I happen to think that, as it's usually an adult who buys a child their first comic and sets the pattern, their opinion is at least just as valid. Surely ...

I just thought I'd pop in and say thanks to several of the contributors here before they're slung off the forum. Many of your posts have been informative and at times imaginative. However you all now seem to be bowing out in a blaze of sniping. I am guessing that I am not the only one looking forwa...

Lew makes the perfectly valid point that one person in the target range liked it, which goes against your opinion. Actually, Andy, it doesn't go against my opinion that one person in the so-called 'target range' might like it, as it's never been my opinion that one person (or any number) wouldn't. ...

Well now, I have to admit that you have surprised me. We are all well aware of your sense of your self-worth, your self-aggrandisement, your self-importance, your vanity, as shown particularly in your recent post in which you seemed to be suggesting that not only might you see yourself, in general,...

Again, I suggested no such thing so please don't claim I did. We agree that the child's response was only representative of himself, not of children in general, yes? So why dismiss his response just because he's 6? Lots of Beano readers are that young. I was reading it at that age, weren't you? How...

AndyB wrote:An insignificant sample, Kid. All you have is one likes it and one doesn't like it, which is reputedly pretty much also the case for Calamity James. Such a small sample size proves nothing.

That's what I said at the start, Andy - but try telling that to Lew. He seems to think it does.

Yes, I was going to query your approach to research, Kid. I must admit that although you did say that it was minor, I didn't think it would be that minor. I was, really, waiting with some anticipation for the results of a more meaningful piece of research. Any university student, or even sixth-form...

Fact is, from your own research , a child within The Beano's target audience liked what he saw. That's the result that matters. Now you're trying to dismiss it! Hilarious. What's hilarious, Lew, is that you take the example of one child whose mother (it is reasonable to presume) knows best (certain...

Perhaps I might preface my response by asking you, point-blank, why, when you feel the need to include these so-called anonymous messages which you say were posted on your blog, do you only ever include them in your responses to me? Given my limited intelligence, in your eyes at least, would you be...

Parental approval is of course to be expected, I was just sad to see that in your example, that meant dismissing something partly because they didn't like the thing themselves. But that's a reality. Parents sometimes will not buy something that little Johnny likes, because they think it's either no...