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by colcool007
04 Mar 2006, 23:50
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Fleetway issue Numbers
Replies: 29
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Fleetway issue Numbers

Slightly off-topic, but collectors of early DCT stuff have the same problem as they went to fortnightly publishing during WW2 and did not end that fortnightly issue system until the late 40's. (Still trying to figure out exactly when it ended)
by colcool007
04 Mar 2006, 23:43
Forum: Comic Titles & Groups
Topic: Story Papers - little connection to comics?
Replies: 2
Views: 3608

Re: Story Papers - little connection to comics?

At the risk of making myself unpopular I never really saw the relationship between Story papers and comics.Earl. As I started as a Victor reader, there were always a mix of the text and the illustrated strip, so I can see the relationship as comics were intended as a throwaway medium (I can see the...
by colcool007
03 Mar 2006, 18:19
Forum: Comic Titles & Groups
Topic: Did you read comics before 1937?
Replies: 4
Views: 4717

Re: Did you read comics before 1937?

Did you read comics before 1937? That's lovely. Shouldn't you be dead by now? Only just! Must admit I did buy a 1938 Wizard Annual to see what the difference in context was. And wow, what a difference in social standards! Spadger's Isle will never be re-published (re-invented as Sparky and you know...