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Post by primenova on Feb 27, 2019 8:28:24 GMT
When we got to #213 format change should it had gone fortnightly instead of staying weekly? How much would that have changed the issues ie xmas issue & last issue
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Post by blueshift on Feb 27, 2019 8:43:11 GMT
When we got to #213 format change should it had gone fortnightly instead of staying weekly? How much would that have changed the issues ie xmas issue & last issue No As a kid, a fortnight is FOREVER |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2019 9:09:31 GMT
Kills a kids comic, as it eventually did.
Though to my mind the Format Change is the beginning of the end.
However we probably should hold off on further discussion of this matter till we get there imminently in the 30 years thread .....
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2019 9:58:20 GMT
To be fair it started off fortnightly and then went to weekly, so it's not necessarily the death blow to the comic.
I think there are a few factors that all have a part to play in the comic's end. Part of me wonders if when the format changed, if they had instead of going to 5 pages of black and white every week, just made the back up strip the black and white one, and split the TF strip into two chunks at each end of the comic would it have lasted longer, or would it have hastened the end as older readers saw it for the cost-cutting measure it was.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 10:46:15 GMT
When we got to #213 format change should it had gone fortnightly instead of staying weekly? How much would that have changed the issues ie xmas issue & last issue No As a kid, a fortnight is FOREVER Indeed. And monthlies? Monthlies were pish! -Ralph |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2019 10:49:00 GMT
No they weren't.
Mind you I'd been reading US monthlies alongside UK stuff for as long as I can remember, so best of both worlds.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 10:51:45 GMT
For young Ralph the frequency denoted how good a comic was so weeklies were best and bi-monthlies were poo.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2019 10:52:33 GMT
Bi-monthlies, I don't recall too many of them, and I doubt many lasted all that long.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2019 10:57:50 GMT
No As a kid, a fortnight is FOREVER Indeed. And monthlies? Monthlies were pish! -Ralph Unless they had the words "DOCTOR WHO" on them or were Marvel US |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 12:14:58 GMT
Bi-monthlies, I don't recall too many of them, and I doubt many lasted all that long. Inspector Gadget. -Ralph |
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Post by primenova on Feb 27, 2019 12:22:37 GMT
I don't think we would have had the gijoe crossover printed & Worlds apart. We would have gone still with the other reprints. But about the xmas issue wouldn't be 250,302,331. I expect the comic would have got to #320 than 332 with having it back to 11 pages sooner.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2019 12:34:38 GMT
I think without reprints and having the eleven pager UK material we'd be in line for a much more different book and plot threads. What that would have meant for the book and how long it lasted who can say.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Feb 27, 2019 17:36:38 GMT
Monthlies strike me as particularly silly when the same team or character has 2, 3 or 4 different titles running simultaneously, which you have to read all of for the saga to make sense, but all of which have slightly different names and different numbering systems. Just have one title and make it come out more frequently!
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Feb 27, 2019 18:25:59 GMT
True for the UK.
However, the US has a fine history of that dating back to the 40's with Action Comics and Detective Comics and Superman and Batman.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 27, 2019 18:27:54 GMT
Indeed. The market for comics varies from country to country. Countries like France use album formats etc.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Feb 27, 2019 20:15:06 GMT
You mean like with Spider-man having 4 ongoing titles back in the 90's. But they did keep being apart from each other & had story arcs keeping to the titles until we got the monthly corssover events with part 1 to 4 in the all 4 titles.
Back at time of release (which we can talk more about on April 2019 #213) 213 felt more standout than #309 which was mid story.
We had 38 issue for rest of 1989 - so it could have been 19 (#232 would have been first issue in 1990). Also this would have ment US title got a head so we have the issues ready to print.
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Post by primenova on Feb 28, 2019 19:25:05 GMT
This is how I think it would have played out if had been - note updating this post. All UK stories could have still been drawn at the same time but printed later on.
1989 #213-231 (new 5 page UK story could be haulted for a reprint run instead first)
1990 #232-257 (perchance to dream to be moved to 1991 first issue)
1991 #258-283
1992 #284-309
1993 #310-? edge of extinction over 3 issues?
Have no extra new stories but reprint classic xmas stories over 2 issues.
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