Share Your Short Stuff - Digests, Half-sized, and Other Smaller Than Normal Golden Age Comics 2 2

[BOOT]

On 4/30/2017 at 8:27 AM, AJD said:

Lots of Australian books were odd sizes and layouts. I really like this WW2 vintage paper saving Four Color #29 Australian reprint. It's 4 3/4" x 7 3/4" (or 12.5 cm x 19.7 cm)

Here is it beside a normal sized Dell:

So cool! What is the print and color quality of the interiors?

[BOOT]

On 4/30/2017 at 9:48 AM, buttock said:

 

What a run!!! Wow! Love this cover! Why does Hitler have three swords? The little curls on the lizard men's boots are a nice touch, too.

[BOOT]

On 4/30/2017 at 9:48 AM, buttock said:

I have never seen this before...

[BOOT]

On 5/1/2017 at 0:38 PM, Robot Man said:

How about an unusual Baker one?

Here's my copy and some interior shots. Other people have said Baker had a hand in this, but I'm not seeing it. What do the Baker experts say?

[BOOT]

Bold Stories - March 1950

With some interior shots. Powell, Wood, etc.

[BOOT]

Bold Stories - May 1950

With some interior shots. Ingels, etc.

[BOOT]

Candid Tales - April 1950

Some interior scans. Powell, Powell, Wood, Powell!

[porcupine48]

those are incredible!

[AJD]

5 hours ago, BOOT said:

So cool! What is the print and color quality of the interiors?

The print quality is quite good, and the line work has survived the shrinking process. here's the back cover:

The colouring's a bit hit and miss in places - Donald's pink beak lower left is a bit odd. But unlike most early Australian comics the interior is in colour throughout, and it looks pretty nice.

[Robot Man]

5 hours ago, BOOT said:

Candid Tales - April 1950

Some interior scans. Powell, Powell, Wood, Powell!

Thanks for the interior shots Boot. I have never seen most of these. Rather "spicy" if I do say so myself.

[G.A.tor]

I'm sure someone will come along and post a complete set of the centaur digests. 

[AJD]

Here's another Australian odd-sized comic. It's about an inch shorter than a normal GA comic, but in letterbox format it's much narrower. Popular Yank was an intermittent series of reprints of American newspaper strips. Sometimes they had numbers, but this one has no number or date. The size makes me think WW2 paper shortages, but I don't know for sure.

 

[eccomic]

Some very rare mini Canadian Whites. The complete set of four from my collection. 

[porcupine48]

2 minutes ago, eccomic said:

Some very rare mini Canadian Whites. The complete set of four from my collection. 

What is the story behind these?Giveaways?Subscription premiums?

[eccomic]

Very rare If the Devil Would talk mini ashcan comic in black and white from the Catechetical Guild from my collection, published in 1950. Only five know copies exist.

[eccomic]

1 minute ago, porcupine48 said:

What is the story behind these?Giveaways?Subscription premiums?

They are given away in the early 1940s and were published in Toronto. They have black and white interiors, not unlike the Fawcett mini bread giveaways

[porcupine48]

2 minutes ago, eccomic said:

They are given away in the early 1940s and were published in Toronto. They have black and white interiors, not unlike the Fawcett mini bread giveaways

Thank you.Don't think you've posted them before?Great to see them.

 

[Dr. Love]

7 minutes ago, eccomic said:

Very rare If the Devil Would talk mini ashcan comic in black and white from the Catechetical Guild from my collection, published in 1950. Only five know copies exist.

[BOOT]

On 5/3/2017 at 7:45 PM, eccomic said:

Very rare If the Devil Would talk mini ashcan comic in black and white from the Catechetical Guild from my collection, published in 1950. Only five know copies exist.

Great comic! Here is a later mini ashcan from Pflaum's Treasure Chest for This Godless Communism...

Edited May 6, 2017 by BOOT

[BOOT]

7 hours ago, porcupine48 said:

Thank you.Don't think you've posted them before?Great to see them.

 

+1. Great stuff!