What Comic Would You Like Out There?

[Tin Can Tommy]

I would love a comic which is basically Classics from the comics plus content from Fleetway/IPC/Odhams with no limits on when a reprinted strip can be from (obviously offensive strips and just plain unfunny strips shouldn't be reprinted) and features only humourous strips.

[alanultron5]

For me it would be a mix of the best of "Wham, Smash & Pow" That would be nice.

[AndyB]

There'd also be the costs of sourcing the material. Most original art is gone (except for DC Thomson's) so you'd have to track down the comics and get decent scans that could be remastered to authentic looking facsimiles. Then there's paying the copyright holders, getting permission to reprint old ads etc.

The Guardian managed it for their week of freebies, though, didn't they?

That was the work of the publishers - they provided the scans of the whole comics (edited in the case of the IPC material), and the newspaper printers did the rest, as the Belfast Telegraph has done twice since. Presumably the owners just gave the Guardian a price and dealt with all the other issues.