Great Moments In Comics #37

Oct 12, 2009

So in 1978, DC Comics included a Reader Survey in some of its books. (It was clearly a regional thing; I’d never seen one until BOOM! publisher Ross Richie stumbled across one in an old FIRESTORM at the Long Beach Comicon last weekend.)

 

 

The questions were the usual sort of demographic-gathering thing for the time–how much money do you spend on DC comics each week, what are your other interests, what’s your age range, etc. But here’s the one that lept out at me. Prepare, depending on whether you were alive in 1978, to feel either totally mystified or REALLY OLD. 

 

 

I’m gonna go lie down.