Super-Duper

This comic is more Duper than Super !!! It was published by Cartoon Art Periodicals in the UK during that no man’s land period between the end of the Second World War and the beginning of modern recorded history (which as we all know was 1956 !!!). Along with similar companies like Gerald G. Swan Ltd they churned out incredibly cheap looking, unbelievably unsophisticated, comics that (from a distance, squinting with one eye closed ) were imitations of the (then poorly distributed here) American comics of the time.

I don’t own a copy of this comic alas, so thanks to the original scanner for making it available to the world at large. The artwork varies from “interesting” to “sub-fanzine standard”. This crumbling artefact is beyond parody and of interest only to a handful of comics historians. The recent weighty “Great British Fantasy Comic Book Heroes” edited by Mike Higgs is the best place (nay, its the ONLY place) to see more of this type of forgotten comic art from the late 1940s/early 1950s.