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Free Comic Book Day Gets A Little Less For Kids In 2015

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There are fewer Free Comic Book Day titles on offer this year than last. And there are even fewer all-ages comics. Ostensibly aimed at getting kids into comic stores by giving them free stuff to whet their appetite

STK664578That has changed of late, with a number of mature readers titles being allowed into the fold, as well as more PG titles.This year, proportionately had less all ages titles than ever before.

And the line continues to darken. Retailers have been informed that three Free Comic Book Day titles have all changed their guidance tags.

Hatter M: Love Of Wonders, solicited as an All Ages title, will now be Suitable For Teen Readers.

While Archie Comics' Dark Circle Comics #1 was solicited for Teen Readers but is now a Mature Readers comic. Could it have something to do with this?

While Grimm Fairy Tales' Wonderland has moved from Teen Readers to Mature Readers.

Archie comics and Alice In Wonderland comics on Free Comic Book Day, all out of the grasps of little youngsters… who would have thought it?

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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