Weekly Supplement [Book-Comics] (1937, Comics Magazine Company)

Weekly Supplement [Book-Comics] ran for 6 issues (1937–1937). Publishing format: was ongoing series. Weekly Sunday comic book newspaper supplement with reprinted different stories and features from Funny Picture Stories. Each book was eight pages, reprinting a seven page story with a colored blank area on the final page for the subscribing newspaper to print their own content. Issues were numbered on the final page above a next issue box. The series is not listed in Overstreet, but is listed by Heritage Auctions as "Funny Picture Stories Supplement." The books however, are only marked "WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT TO," with a blank for the subscribing paper's name and date. The secondary title of the series, "Book-Comics," comes from ads, which clearly name it as such, leading up to its publication in the Deadwood Pioneer-Times. It is likely that the ads, and name, came from the publisher, or distributor, but that cannot be certain without further documentation. The Pioneer-Times is one of the two known subscribing papers, along with the Lake Charles American Press, which ran the first issue five days later than the Pioneer-Times. From Newspapers.com and Heritage Auctions, issues 1-4 and 11-12 are known to have been printed, and 1-4 are known to have been distributed in newspapers. Issues 11 and 12 have no printed newspaper masthead, blank final pages, and are not known to have been distributed.