...and I leave my comic collection to...

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

My comics are going nowhere, they're accompanying me into the afterlife........

If Heaven exists, won't there be an everlasting supply of comics?

And what if Hell exists....what's the comics situation there? Stoking the flames with your favourite copies?

[Kashgar]

I had originally favoured a Khufuesque pyramid but given that nothing ever stayed put in a pyramid for more than two minutes in a priests out, looters in scenario I feel I might have to revise my plans. So, in keeping with the D C Thomson bias in my collection, I think I'll bury the lot and tattoo its whereabouts on the backs of six, burly, kilt-clad Scotsmen and let any comic collectors who survive me hunt for the treasure if they dare.
And Rab, as it seems the Devil has all the best tunes and Hell is the place for the company it might be that the only juvenile reading matter in Heaven might turn out to be improving texts like Look and Learn. Beelzebub might have dibs on the Beano!

[philcom55]

...As an alternative can I suggest a special clause in everyone's will headed 'Great News Pals!' in which their executors will be instructed to combine their collection with that of some other member of this group (mentioning no names of course ).

- Phil Rushton (...oops, I just did! )

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

I wonder if 'VIZ' is available in Heaven?.....God does seem to have a real sense of humour at times.

[AndyB]

Comics in heaven? Got to be Whizzer and Chips, Beano, Dandy, Sparky, and Beezer all in their heyday before reprints took over

(Yes, I did deliberately leave out Topper and Buster - they were good, don't get me wrong, but I went for my favourites!)

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

Purgatory, of course, is the 'no-man's land' in between Heaven and Hell: this is probably the place where the only comics to read are those who had very short runs, or mergers of once-great titles, who later lost their creative spark.

[Kashgar]

I think Purgatory would be full of adventure papers packed with great stories with only the issues containing the final instalments missing which would then only be available once you got 'upstairs'.

[Phoenix]

I think Purgatory would be full of adventure papers packed with great stories with only the issues containing the final instalments missing which would then only be available once you got 'upstairs'.

That would be a new slant on the Hancock's missing page syndrome. The trouble is that at the same time it would deprive many a Purgatorial inhabitant of the first instalment of their favourite story, and many others would lose one or more from within a run if all issues containing a final instalment were to be removed. The only way it would work efficiently is if the final instalment of every serial was blanked out unless, of course, a personal service was provided for everybody.

[AndyB]

while Hell would be the early issues of Dandy Xtreme with the comics pages ripped out?

[Niblet]

It might be a laugh to bequeath comics to people you don't particularly like. Imagine the scene, your relatives have gathered for the reading of your will, all avariciously anticipating a big pay out. Then the moment of truth comes as the solicitor reads 'and the deceased leaves to cousin Archibald...' (dramatic pause to ratchet up the expectation) '...15 copies of Buster and a Shiver and Shake annual 1973'.

[Kashgar]

I think Purgatory would be full of adventure papers packed with great stories with only the issues containing the final instalments missing which would then only be available once you got 'upstairs'.

That would be a new slant on the Hancock's missing page syndrome. The trouble is that at the same time it would deprive many a Purgatorial inhabitant of the first instalment of their favourite story, and many others would lose one or more from within a run if all issues containing a final instalment were to be removed. The only way it would work efficiently is if the final instalment of every serial was blanked out unless, of course, a personal service was provided for everybody.

I should imagine anything is possible in the celestial realm so these wouldn't be actual copies of papers as published but clever variants of same tailored to tease and torment particular individuals. Hancock's missing page frustration was slightly different in that the writer Darcy Sarto had died prior to finishing 'Lady Don't Fall Backwards' meaning that it never got completed in the 'real' world.
Still, none of this talk of the afterlife should be of any concern to you Derek. Your main worry seems to be how to finance an eternity of mobile home arson attacks and how to cope with trailer trash living in general!

[Phoenix]

Still, none of this talk of the afterlife should be of any concern to you Derek. Your main worry seems to be how to finance an eternity of mobile home arson attacks and how to cope with trailer trash living in general!

Who are you calling trailer trash? I'll have you know, Ray, that my next incarnation will be as a footballing genius. As I will be earning £200,000 a week plus a win bonus clause of a further £50,000 per match, which will be triggered thirty-eight times per season, I will have ample funds at my disposal to furnish my gold caravan with all the latest must-haves, and I will be able to acquire all the Thomson issues that are not yet in my cupboards and boxes with my family. It won't be difficult, I'll just wave a few wads of banknotes in the appropriate people's faces, shamelessly pandering to their greed. To cap it all, I will resist all overtures from Champions League clubs past and present and sign on for Bolton Wanderers. They will consider their money well spent because by the end of whichever season I join the Trotters we will win the Double. That way I will not need to depend on the next incarnations of the Dean Holdsworths of this world in order to win the FA Cup again. Just as a foretaste, let me tell you that my shots, like those of Gorgeous Gus, will be straight at the keeper, who will be propelled through the back of the net and end up in Row Z, still clutching the ball. My horse will not be able to kick any harder.