| The survey results are based on the opinions of 135 former Action readers surveyed by Martin Barker in 1986. The results are expressed as averages across the 135 people polled. Categories were rated from 1 to 5 with regard to how much the person polled agreed with a statement, 3 represents the mid-line of no expressed preference, which Action achieved in both the Believable/Unbelievable and Handsome/Ugly categories, hence there is no bar shown. From the results, we can conclude that Action was regarded by its readers as well written and drawn, up to date, cynical, slightly right wing and male biased, but was not respectable. Neither was it patronising. The stories were violent, fast-moving, exciting and unpredictable although they were neither patriotic nor optimistic, and were very much anti-authority. The characters were successful, strong, amoral loners who were slightly vulnerable to danger but strongly distrusted authority. Readers felt that they were not like the characters, but would quite like to be. Many of these assets are in stark contrast to other comics of the time. The examples cited in the survey were Battle, Valiant, Victor and Warlord, but titles like Bullet, Tiger, Scorcher and Roy of the Rovers should also be taken into consideration. | |  | | The comic as a whole was: |  | | The stories were: |  | | Characters in the stories were: |  | |
