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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Nick Danger)
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Subject: Re: Comics and addiction
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Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 00:31:26 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 13 00:31:26 1984
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> An interesting point was made in a recent article, that we are addicted to
> comics and that we will read things that we know disgust us...

I'd have to say the same for usenet news.  Some of us have become "info-
junkies" and read every article ever posted.  Why?  (I don't know.  He's
on third, and I don't give a darn! :-) )  Anyway, I'd rather read the
comics or the Usenet news than read my Electromagnetic Theory textbook... 

> For all our complaints, SECRET BORES *is* one of the best selling MARVEL
> comics.  Why?  Because so many of us are being BLACKMAILED in buying it as we
> are afraid that we will miss some "continuity" in the "MARVEL universe."

Maybe so, but who is Marvel's target audience for this comic?  (or all of
their comics?)  Has anyone conducted a study on who buys comic books?
And why do I see these ads for SEEKRIT WORZ (tm) action figures all over the 
place when I read my Spider-Man (nice to see him with the old suit!)?
My guess for the stereotypical Marvel comics buyer is around 10 years old
(although some of us serious collectors are older).  He sees these ads and
screams "MommyMommyBuyMeTheSecretWarsDoctorDoomFigureIGottaHaveIt" and won't
stop until he gets his plastic doll, complete with message shield, and arms
that fall out after three months.....(I don't know how well those things are
put together, but if Jim $hootee and Marvel are out to get rich, my guess is
that they aren't put together well at all.)  So why am I still getting the
rest of the series?  Well, perhaps they should be worth something a few
years from now.  (If Marvel Universe #1 is going for $6, and Spidey #252
(which I don't have -- I started collecting at #258) for $7, how much is Secret
Wars going to sell for in 1989?)

Show me the way to go home...I'm tired and I want to go to bed.....
-- 
From under the smogberry trees.... 
Jim Poltrone  (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters)
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