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

[vaillant]

The french edition is very cool, because the same material (issue numbers correspond) is published in mini-comic book format, with new custom covers drawn by a french artist.
Here’s a few from my collection: #12, 13 and 35 (I am still missing the original italian #35).

[vaillant]

A pair of "Albo Impero" (Empire Comics).
These are landscape format, and also digest sized, and they are from 1942 and 1943, so during the war.

They contain war-themed stories.

Edited April 30, 2017 by vaillant

[AJD]

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:

[buttock]

I'm not typically a run collector, but I do love me some Harvey digests.  

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Then there's this rare sucker that is rebound remaindered Harvey digests.  

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Here are a few Comics Corp of America books that are not quite comics, but are involved in the evolution of the Centaur brand. 

[october]

Great idea for a thread. Here are a few of mine. Need to scan the others. 

 

[october]

3 hours ago, buttock said:

 

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6 minutes ago, october said:

I used to have 2 extra copies

[BakerFanOne]

1 hour ago, buttock said:

Here are a few Comics Corp of America books that are not quite comics, but are involved in the evolution of the Centaur brand. 

 

What an incredible array of digests and alternative sized books.  Thanks for sharing the awesomeness.

[BakerFanOne]

28 minutes ago, october said:

Great idea for a thread. Here are a few of mine. Need to scan the others. 

 

Two great ones to add to the thread.

[BakerFanOne]

4 hours ago, buttock said:

I have admired those 3 Speeds forever.  Unfortunately, I never had the right buying opportunity ie they were always pricced out of my reach.  But now I may make a run for them.  Wish me luck!

[BakerFanOne]

6 hours ago, vaillant said:

These are issues from Sciuscià, a strip-sized important series that came out after WW2 – not all issues are strictly related to war events but many episodes are (episodes ran for more than a single issue, in continuation). I am collecting little by little the ones where the action is set during the war.
The character is inspired by neorealistic movie "Shoeshine" by Vittorio De Sica. More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sciuscià_(comics)

So  many interesting historical items to share.  Maybe we will find some new items not in the Overstreet!

[BakerFanOne]

Here are some that I just posted on the Baker Romance thread: