<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 6, 2005, at 7:06 AM, <A href="mailto:SRoweCanoe@aol.com">SRoweCanoe@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT id="role_document" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/6/2005 5:46:17 AM Eastern Standard Time, <A href="mailto:nicodemuslegend@gmail.com">nicodemuslegend@gmail.com</A> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">>and I don't think anybody thinks most of the categories you mention are "an >average comic book." The mainstream comic book market is still 32 pages.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>actually, i would disagree with that -- the 32 page comic is a tiny part of the mainstream market - and seems to primiarly go to the small market of comic book shops. In my town, there is no place to buy those old format comic.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I see the 32 page comics in my local pharmacies, at least 3 that immediately come to mind. Usually DC and Marvel, an occasional Archie.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The supermarkets have the Archie digests.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Barnes and Noble has the comic-book dimension graphic novels.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Comic shop of course have pretty much everything but focus on the 32 pagers. I see the Gemstones and Archies glommed together in the "kids" section. I have seen parents bring their kids into the shop and get something for them. I assume that a price concerned parent would pick up an Archie, but that a Disney-fan parent would pick up a Gemstone.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>- Tor</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>