Late in 1978, it seemed that no MC comics would ever be printed again, and some advertising in issues from this period indicate this. John Beers seemed to have lost direction, and the several satire "magazine format" series put out with the cooperation of Scot Mills at the time were expected to chart MC's future.
Fortunately, Beers tapped into the same nerve that led to the concept of Our Dear School Comics one year previously, and he went about another round to attempt the same formula again. This resulted in ODSC # 5, released in October, 1978. This issue was a relative success, and to follow up John Beers installed other effective techniques to insure the popularity of the comic: He refreshed the graphic image of the book, and he began a serial 'drama', hardly to be taken in the literal sense, given the content of the story. In any case, the early-teen student readership of the newly-revived series approved of it overwhelmingly, and this fact almost by itself helped to resolve John Beers' ambivalence towards comic book drawing. From this point on, Our Dear School Comics would live on to be MC's longest-running title.

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