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WAITING
FOR TOMMY: BAN COMICS
By Richard Johnston
(Ad
design by David Dadekian)
Joe Quesada
critically mauled the Celebrity campaign for being too earnest
and seeking. Joe, like myself, is a believer that to recapture
the younger market, you aim at their elders. Just as the young
try to exceed what others believe is suitable for them, and
want to be treated older than their actual age, then aiming
at nineteen year olds may reap rewards in other markets. It's
worked for cigarettes, Playstation games, higher-rated movies,
the glamour, the appeal is intense. The magazine Just Seventeen
has hardly any seventeen or even sixteen year old readers,
they're all about nine or ten, but wanting to be seventeen.
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