Question about Superboy 37-war trimming

[kav]

I just sold some books to Brian Peets and he was intrigued by a Superboy 37 that had 4 pages cut out after staple-12 pages in front and 8 pages after staple-he said they did this for wartime to save paper but this book was printed in 1954. Anyone have any input on this? I did ask him to join the boards but he said he's far too busy. He said they also printed books with one staple to save metal-how many staples it took to make one battleship I have no idea.

[Erndog]

One staple to save metal.

 

Amazing.

 

I heard they rationed food at that time too but saving 1 grain of rice each time

[kav]

right??

[jimjum12]

Superman 96 is that way also (...IIRC) and there are others as well..... not sure how far reaching it is.... GOD BLESS...

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[chrisco37]

Many of the Timely "War" books were only manufactured with one staple.

[kav]

If they were really serious they would have said 'we were gonna print Superman #4 but to save paper and staples, we're not gonna.

[Erndog]

If they were really serious they would have said 'we were gonna print Superman #4 but to save paper and staples, we're not gonna.

 

Fair.

 

Did they go back to multiple staples for Superman #5?

[Comicdey]

Grand comics database is your friend for page counts.

 

Saved money. Fewer pages still 10c

[kav]

Grand comics database is your friend for page counts.

 

Saved money. Fewer pages still 10c

can you elaborate?

[jimjum12]

Grand comics database is your friend for page counts.

 

Saved money. Fewer pages still 10c

can you elaborate?

 

He can..... but he charges extra for that. GOD BLESS....

 

-jimbo(a friend of jesus)

[kav]

GCD lists it as 52 pages

[Comicdey]

They could be wrong ?

 

Ask silver to confirm

I may have a 37 at home but can't check now. Probably 44 pages

 

12x2 front 24

8x2 back 26

4 cover 4

 

?

[jimbo_707]

The only raw book I ever owned that displayed that feature was from 1944. I've never even heard of a book from post WWII having the appearance of cut-out pages.

 

I never knew whether they actually cut out pages or whether they printed some pages on scrap sheets that were only wide enough to get 4 pages on instead of the usual 8 (using up scrap material, in other words). The books had dropped from 68 pages down to 60, so I don't know why they would cut out pages instead of just including one less folio (7 plus the cover instead of 8 plus the cover.)