<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dean:<BR><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; ">I have a question for Gary. At first you compared a possible B/W Gemstone title to "Shonen Jump". Later you seemed to compare it more to a Showcase/Essentials type title. I think there are two big differences to the two. One, Shonen Jump comes out on a regular basis like a periodical. Showcase/Essentials do not come out on a monthly or regular basis. Two, Shonen Jump costs about 5 or 6 dollars each, whereas Showcase/Essentials cost more like between $15.00 and $20.00. I would be curious whether Shonen Jump or Showcase/Essentials is the type of B/W title Gemstone is considering? Of course from what has been written on the list, Gemstone may be reconsidering having such a B/W title at all.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Shonen Jump is distributed to newsstands, while the DC and Marvel black-and-white Silver Age collections - and Gemstone Disney comics - are not. So when I think of proposed black-and-white books in terms of their market presence, I think in terms of the DC and Marvel efforts.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>However, the books themselves are not conceived as being retrospective. They're intended to contain recent material, not forty-year-old reprints. So when I think in terms of their content, I think of Shonen Jump.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In any case, it all boils down to arriving at a clear idea of how to proceed with publications that take cues from two main precedents like this.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary </DIV></BODY></HTML>