Young detectives as Umsatzbringer: “The three question marks” are to appear as magazine

The utilization chain of the success crime film series “the three question marks” achieves a new stage. Starting from autumn the young detectives determine also in a magazine. Planned is besides a folder for girls - under a particularly original title.


Justus Jonas and no end: The crime film row “the three question marks” comes in the autumn as magazine for children on the market. According to Stuttgart cosmos of the publishing house, which stands behind the brand, appears at the end of September the first edition of “the three??? Kids”. In October follow besides “the three!!!” as variant for girls. In each case four expenditures are planned in the year with an edition of 70.000 copies.

The publishing house is received in addition according to their own statements a partnership with the child and youth magazine publishing house Blue Ocean entertainment. The magazines are among other things short stories in comic form, in addition, poster and mystery approximately around the young detectives contain. There are the three question marks in book form in the meantime for 50 years. The row from radio plays and books concerning the childlike crime film heroes gave to the music label Sony Europa and the cosmos publishing house since their Germany start 1968 a gross income of nearly a half billion euros, as the “economic week” reported with reference to branch estimations. In Germany so far more than 45 million sound carrier and 16 million books of the row were sold. “Each radio play is sold and reached to the magazine after at the latest three months 100.000 times thereby to gold status”, said Sony European product manager Corinna Wodrich. Thus the “question marks” are the most successful artists on of Europe largest music portal iTunes and let there even world star such as lady Gaga behind itself.