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[paw broon]

This is for josemas.  I saw the archive and, apart from the contents which are a great addition to CB+, the cover page got me going as it looks like a composite of 3 lilliputs and I really need to know if The Woman in Red appeared in that format, or, how did you get those images.  I'm so interested in non-standard comic formats i.e non-American standard comic book shape.  There are some striscie already up on CB+, one of which is American and I was surprised when I found it as I thought that this was a European shape for comics.  Sorry to be a pain but do you have more examples of the format and, if so, can you let me have a look at them?  Isn't it amazing how we keep finding out new things?

[josemas]

The Woman in Red Archive is a transplant from our friends at DCM.  I had nothing to do with compiling it originally.  I merely brought it on over to our site.

The stories originally appeared in Better/Nedor/Standrad's Thrilling Comics.  I believe that the cover page is a composite of three splash panels.  The stories all originally appeared in a standard sized comic, as far as I know.

While there were some different sized comics here in the U S A I'm no expert on that subject.  A couple examples that I do remember are the early issues of Fiction House's Jumbo Comics being tabloid size and Harvey's Pocket Comics being digest size.

Perhaps others could chime in with some examples of odd sized GA comics?

Best

Joe

[Geo]

Harvey, Archie and even DC made digest sized comics. There maybe more, but I don't know.

Ziff-Davis did pulp style books with comic inserts for another.

Here's a couple more I found:SPEED COMICS #15 VG/F 5.0 (RARE! digest size)
SPEED COMICS #16 VG- 3.5 (RARE! pocket-sized Hitler cvr)

That help some?

Geo

[paw broon]

Yes it does, thanks.  As I said, I'm a bit of a fan of different formats but apart from the ones you mention, N.America didn't seem to use them.  Whereas in Europe there are umpteen variations.  French fans call landscape comics Italian format, despite there having been many more Spanish landscape titles - a huge number in fact.  In Australia, The Phantom and other comics were initially published landscape and in 2 different versions of the format.  But as for digest, where do you start.  Huge numbers of digest comics were produced weekly, fortnightly, monthly, in UK, France, Italy and, to a lesser extent in Netherlands ( but they also had/invented?, Beeldromans, the little cigarette pack sized comics)  and other places. And that's just scratching the surface.  Sorry to bore you but the diversity amazes me.

[narfstar]

Not a bore Paw it fascinates most of us here