[Electricmastro]

Apparently all of it is newspaper reprints, but it is still quite nice for it all to be compiled in a continuous manner.

There were also giant-sized comic books out before this, like Dell’s Four Color comics and Gilberton’s Classics Illustrated, but those were usually between 50-100 pages. Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City accounts for 159 pages, which was almost unheard of, only having been preceded by rare cases like the Andy Panda comic published by Western which had a comic story that was 185 pages.

Link to the book: Joe Palooka Visits The Lost City

[Robb_K]

Apparently all of it is newspaper reprints, but it is still quite nice for it all to be compiled in a continuous manner.

There were also giant-sized comic books out before this, like Dell?s Four Color comics and Gilberton?s Classics Illustrated, but those were usually between 50-100 pages. Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City accounts for 159 pages, which was almost unheard of, only having been preceded by rare cases like the Andy Panda comic published by Western which had a comic story that was 185 pages.
Link to the book: Joe Palooka Visits The Lost City 

A few of Fox Features' early 1940s Giant Comics reached up to 194 pages, as they included the contents of 3 60+Page, or 4 52-Page, regular-sized, bi-monthly or quarterly series regular issues.

[Electricmastro]

Apparently all of it is newspaper reprints, but it is still quite nice for it all to be compiled in a continuous manner.

There were also giant-sized comic books out before this, like Dell?s Four Color comics and Gilberton?s Classics Illustrated, but those were usually between 50-100 pages. Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City accounts for 159 pages, which was almost unheard of, only having been preceded by rare cases like the Andy Panda comic published by Western which had a comic story that was 185 pages.
Link to the book: Joe Palooka Visits The Lost City 

Indeed, though I don?t recall any of those having been one continuous story.
A few of Fox Features' early 1940s Giant Comics reached up to 194 pages, as they included the contents of 3 60+Page, or 4 52-Page, regular-sized, bi-monthly or quarterly series regular issues.

[Robb_K]

Apparently all of it is newspaper reprints, but it is still quite nice for it all to be compiled in a continuous manner.

There were also giant-sized comic books out before this, like Dell?s Four Color comics and Gilberton?s Classics Illustrated, but those were usually between 50-100 pages. Joe Palooka Visits the Lost City accounts for 159 pages, which was almost unheard of, only having been preceded by rare cases like the Andy Panda comic published by Western which had a comic story that was 185 pages.
Link to the book: Joe Palooka Visits The Lost City 

Indeed, though I don?t recall any of those having been one continuous story.
A few of Fox Features' early 1940s Giant Comics reached up to 194 pages, as they included the contents of 3 60+Page, or 4 52-Page, regular-sized, bi-monthly or quarterly series regular issues.

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Indeed, though I don?t recall any of those having been one continuous story.

Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough to understand that you meant 185 pages of all one continued story was the largest single comic book self-contained story up to that date in time.

[The Australian Panther]

Dick Tracy vs FlatTop was a story consisting of several long chases which lasted from December 1943 to May 1944. This is considered one of the longest strip stories ever.

I can't find an exact date for Flattops first appearance, but sometime before December 1943 and it ran to may 1944. Undercounting the sundays as only one panel, that's 180 panels+. What the whole sage would run to in panels, I don't know.     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattop_(Dick_Tracy_villain)

Gould also kept coming back to it, creating Flattop Jr, Blowtop, Daughter Angeltop, grandson Hitop, identical twin Sharptop, Father Poptop and

Stilleta "Mrs. Flattop" Jones - The widow of Flattop Jones and the mother of Flattop Jr. and Angelica "Angeltop" Jones and a former circus performer bent on revenge for the deaths of her husband and children.

and a couple more.   

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