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<blockquote data-quote="Mournblade94" data-source="post: 4838749" data-attributes="member: 74608">I went through my comic collection a few days ago to replace some of the backing boards.&nbsp; I love doing this to look at the old adverts as the comics themselves.&nbsp;The backs of comics in the 80's were often taken up by TSR:&nbsp; Top secret, Forgotten Realms grey box, Marvel superheroes, all the various products for their games.&nbsp; There ofcourse was often lots of candy and cookie ads as well.&nbsp;I think it might have been last month or the month before, what did marvel have on its back advertisement?&nbsp;A HONDA HYBRID...&nbsp;I think this is VERY telling of who the current comic audience really is.&nbsp; The next most common to me seems to be Video game advertisments which is not very telling at all as comic fans hit the demographic VG companies are after.&nbsp;INSIDE the comics have toy advertisements and young bedroom set adverts... is this aiming at kids or their parents?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mournblade94, post: 4838749, member: 74608"] I went through my comic collection a few days ago to replace some of the backing boards. I love doing this to look at the old adverts as the comics themselves. The backs of comics in the 80's were often taken up by TSR: Top secret, Forgotten Realms grey box, Marvel superheroes, all the various products for their games. There ofcourse was often lots of candy and cookie ads as well. I think it might have been last month or the month before, what did marvel have on its back advertisement? A HONDA HYBRID... I think this is VERY telling of who the current comic audience really is. The next most common to me seems to be Video game advertisments which is not very telling at all as comic fans hit the demographic VG companies are after. INSIDE the comics have toy advertisements and young bedroom set adverts... is this aiming at kids or their parents? [/QUOTE]

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