What has happened to Spider-man and Mark Trail? Did Trail get trapped by a forest fire, and Spider-man tried to save him, only to have both of them get burned up?

I was very disappointed when I read the funnies and these two regulars were among the missing.

If a change was going to made, readers should have have been forewarned! Both of those were in the middle of story lines.

The two replacements, Baby Blues and Crankshaft, seem also to be in the middle of story lines because they don’t make much sense.

Please bring back Spider-man and Mark Trail or, at least, give us an explanation. Perhaps editors thought readers would never notice the difference.

I’m sure other readers are as “burned up” as I am.

Margaret E. Proctor, Wilton

Editor’s note: Mark Trail and Spider-man were discontinued recently after analyzing the results of a readers’ poll taken in 2006.