1970s DC: Are You Interested In Black People?

Brian Cronin on Comic Book Resources has uncovered a race fail from the 1970s, courtesy of DC Comics. A survey in Justice League of America #83 (which likely also appeared in other DC titles of the time) features a number of standard questions marketers use to get to know their audience. In the above scan, we see Question 5 asks kids what they’re interested in reading about. Among “Hobbies” and social issues, we have “Black People” as a potential topic of interest to young readers. Check out CBR for a decent scan of the full survey.

source: Batman Obviously

Shaun Hatton - June 29th, 2009 -

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yanipheonu on June 29, 2009 at 3:29 pm

These days you could only put down “Ethnic Characters”.

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angry lemur on June 29, 2009 at 6:13 pm

try adding the word “robot” in front of each of those subjects, and see how they magically become much more interesting.

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Fajerkaos on June 29, 2009 at 6:17 pm

Yeah, I’m always up for some robot romance!

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yanipheonu on June 29, 2009 at 8:13 pm

@ Angry Lemur:

Really, that applies to any situation.

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Sarakin on June 29, 2009 at 8:23 pm

pretty sure i recently saw a movie with some robot black people in it. It was interesting

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jam on June 30, 2009 at 12:16 am

The whole society was coming out of a race fail at the time. We’re a bit farther along now, but they were still going in the same general direction as we are.

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Shaun Hatton on June 30, 2009 at 9:06 am

@Jam – agreed.

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Ujn Hunter on June 30, 2009 at 11:29 am

I am not interested

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9th Sage on July 1, 2009 at 3:26 pm

@Amgru Lemur: So…”Robot Black People”?

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amanaplan on July 7, 2009 at 4:19 pm

Robot Astrology? That needs to make it into the new Futurama episodes.

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Bxwlevyo on July 16, 2009 at 12:43 am

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