Beach Bays & Jackson 5 ... just to continue OT ...

But Fangs later came back to apologize, so ... 

On the other take though I'd say Ronald Perelman — not for Archie in particular, but comics in general ...

These days a lot of people can text before they can write, but reading in general (especially books) has suffered a lot ...

Wait a second...  How many of us know shop owners?

If they were far enough along to mention it in 2009 they must have been making some plans at least a year or two before ...

I don't think it happened, but ACP is so known for jumping the gun with character changes to help their marketing ... isn't that roughly when Raj first showed up ... ?

Quote from: nuageo on April 10, 2016, 01:47:32 AM
It is over 25000 stories with Archie and his friends.
I do not think Superman has over 25000 stories or Donald Duck has over 25000 stories. 

For Superman — rough guess about 5000 stories specifically centred on him, maybe more, depending what & how you count ... but Batman would have a lot more (8000-10000 I'd guess and probably double for the extended "Bat-family") and that's not counting the Justice League & it's variants or Legion or Titsns ... and since the entire line is one Universe (like by Archie we count B&V and Jug, Reggie, Cheryl, etc.) that barely scratches the surface — and those would average 18+ pages ... Marvel is worse/more ...
Disney on the other hand is big business, but not in comics ... even with the international stories

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Quote from: irishmoxie on April 09, 2016, 05:22:26 PM
Where are all these used bookstores that have digests? I can't find them anywhere. The only thing I can find are the floppies.

In my city we have a used book store chain called BMV might just be Canadian

I live in the States and I have never heard of one before. Yes there are thrift stores that do sell old used books amongst a bunch of other stuff, but I have never saw a comic or digest there. That would be a great idea though.

Many years ago when TV  wasn't so ubiquitous & addictive (fewer channels, less targeted content) bookstores were common with multiple nationwide chains and any mall had one — two or more for the big malls (now they apparently weren't even in the spell-check dictionaries) used bookstores were common with a ½ dozen even in smallish towns ... after a while the big bookstores merged and downsized to survive, anything on a "News-stand" is almost an anachronism, and used material got divided between the LCS back-issues bins and thrift stores ... Everything's about TV and video games — even theatres and broadcast radio are dying off ... and with Netflix & internet stations, TV doesn't have long ...

It's certainly true that we aren't representative of the general readership (or population either I'm sure) ... perhaps of the adult Archie readership (although that's a tiny fraction) ... of our population I'd say the male/female ratio appears fairly evenly divided; on a national level — Archie hasn't ever tried to market much beyond North America, or even to Latin America really — the split between US and Canada is about 10-to-1 I think (ie. about what you'd expect given populations); the only off balance stat seems to be age:  I think the average female age is maybe early 30s (some older, some younger) while the men are, it appears, closer to the other end of 40 ... I'm guessing that possibly due to cultural or biological biases the women like the romance/relationship aspects more, or sooner, than the guys ...?

Even the 32-page books generally had an average of 3-4 stories (5-6 or 11-12 pagers) per book and in it's hey day there could easily be an average of 10 issues a month — which could be about 500 stories a year over the 50 years when the was most active (say 1945-1995) that's 50×500=25000 stories right there ... factoring in the other 25 years and tons 1 page & ½ pages stories even removing reprinting and maybe non-Archie (superheroes, Li'l Jinx and Katy Keene, etc) that's probably still conservative ...

Quote from: irishmoxie on April 09, 2016, 05:26:11 PM
Judging by this message board I think most Archie readers are males in their 40s and 50s. A few kids do come here but get bored quickly and leave. The same thing probably happens while they are reading Archie comics too.

Really? Judging by the board I would have said that the split by gender was fairly even - though the male readers do tend to be older ...

Fernando's debut on "Eerie Cuties" starts here. And it is essentially independent/a good jumping on point ...

Also possible that they are just old and undesirable by the library's standards and put on "sale" carts to raise money, or beat-up by younger patrons and not deemed worth replacing

Henderson draws in a style abandoned by artists in the middle ages (still used by children who have advanced beyond stick figures but with no training or observational skills) ... and she can't seem to find where on the head the face goes .... a little basic anatomy would do wonders ...

Half hour until Grimm, nothing 'til then.