by Shaun Hatton - 06.29.09

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











These days you could only put down “Ethnic Characters”.
yanipheonu - 06.29.09 3:29 pm
try adding the word “robot” in front of each of those subjects, and see how they magically become much more interesting.
angry lemur - 06.29.09 6:13 pm
Yeah, I’m always up for some robot romance!
Fajerkaos - 06.29.09 6:17 pm
@ Angry Lemur:
Really, that applies to any situation.
yanipheonu - 06.29.09 8:13 pm
pretty sure i recently saw a movie with some robot black people in it. It was interesting
Sarakin - 06.29.09 8:23 pm
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.
jam - 06.30.09 12:16 am
@Jam - agreed.
Shaun Hatton - 06.30.09 9:06 am
I am not interested
Ujn Hunter - 06.30.09 11:29 am
@Amgru Lemur: So…”Robot Black People”?
9th Sage - 07.01.09 3:26 pm
Robot Astrology? That needs to make it into the new Futurama episodes.
amanaplan - 07.07.09 4:19 pm
2MNnNm
Bxwlevyo - 07.16.09 12:43 am