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An articulate person shafting Jamie Smart's artwork, knowledgeable about the different ways that a story can be developed and presented, and the different kinds of lettering available to the artist, and dismissive of a person who doesn't know what he is talking about. How curious it is that two suc...

Nope, I got sidetracked by a curious turn of events. Incidentally, I don't offer this as proof of anything, but it's interesting to consider. Anyway, I was in WHS on Saturday (I think it was). Decided to give The Beano another look and try and get past the contents page. As I picked it up, two paren...

What? Still here? Odd that a couple of lines from me should prompt such an obsessively detailed, covering all the bases, desperately trying to convince response. Get out much?

If I'd wanted it to be 'I', I would have written 'I'. I used 'me' because I was writing in the colloquial sense. And there was no mention of you in connection with the anonymous comments I shared. Paranoia, perhaps?

AndyB wrote:

Kid Robson wrote:

colcool007 wrote:Surely we're way off-topic by now. Are weekly comics doomed?

We're currently on the related topic of misuse of statistics.

At which you excel -well done, m'boy. (One hoped one would be permitted to indulge in a bit of humorous banter in order to lighten the mood - apparently not.)

Would a rise of 1p in 1973 be the price of one Mars Bar, Colin? Rab, 5d was just over 2p. My memory is good, but it's not that good! :D But Google confirms that a Mars bar was 2p and it was bigger too. And a go on the puggies, er I mean one armed bandits was 1p then as well. I had to learn pre-deci...

AndyB wrote:No, but it has just as much validity as such an argument.

In your opinion, Andy. There's a sizeable amount of people who hold the opposite view - at least as far as the political aspect goes.

It's a false analogy as 1p in 1973 bought you a fair whack of sweets, whereas 50p today and you are lucky to get one. You seem to forget that spending power per pound diminishes over time and it is why I could get 4 Commandos in 1975 for 20p, whereas today it would cost me £8. You are presenting a ...

There may be lies, damn lies and statistics, but that is the sort of argument that a right winger makes when they try to argue that everyone should pay a flat rate of tax because then it would be fair, yet for a poor taxpayer to pay 25% tax could be the difference between surviving and bankruptcy, ...

Lew Stringer wrote:

AndyB wrote:and indeed, 4d to 2p was a price cut.

No, 2p = 5d, so it rose by a penny. However, it added 4 extra pages a few weeks later, from 16 to 20 pages.

What was that about learning basic mathematics, Andy? Hoist with your own petard, methinks.

I'll tell you why, Col. Or to be precise, I'll reiterate why. But first allow me to make an analogy. If I have £200 in my wallet and I give you £100, I've given you 50%. However, if I have £400 and I give you £150, I've only given you 37 and 1/2%. I've given you more money, but percentage-wise, it's...

It is quite possible that the Beano doesn't make any money. D C Thompson is a large conglomerate these days with fingers in many pies. Given their structure it is quite feasible that it is somewhat subsidised. I know from past conversations that they love that comic and all it's heritage. My six ye...

The point Colcool and I are both making is that DCT could have increased the cover price in 1/2p increments in the 70s, but didn't. 50p feels like a lot, and as I say, it is ridiculous, but in relative terms it is far from unprecedented. That said, there is no denying that the price rise must surel...

When decimal came in, it went from 4d to 2p (0% increase). In 1973, it rose to 3p (a 50% rise) and then to 4p in 1975 (a 33% rise) And by 1977, it was at 5p. By 1980, it was at 8p so in a mere decade, the Beano rose a whopping 300% and that did not kill it off. So saying that the latest price rise ...

The unprecedented jump in price by 50p a while back tends to suggest that they were trying to compensate for lost revenue from falling sales. {...} I haven't called for The Beano to be returned to a previous state in order to satisfy my personal nostalgia. What I've said is that, because of the har...