British Update: Air War Picture Stories – Pearson’s Library 1961 on from #1
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: Our massive Air Ace update may have touched down for the time being, but we continue the aviation theme with Air War Picture Stories from Pearson Publishing. Launched in 1961, this fortnightly series mixed both original and edited American stories in order to maintain its breakneck schedule, and featured many eye-catching painted covers. With a sad lack of definitive records, opinions differ on when Air War ceased publication – at least one authoritative online source claims its final issue was #45, but we have #52 in our hands! There are 48 newly-added issues of Air War Picture Stories added to our lists this week, commencing with the very first and ending with the aforementioned #52, averaging VG – they would grade higher, being generally sound and clean, but long-term storage has left them prone to a degree of staple rust. The Pearson’s Libraries are not commonplace – we suspect they had substantially lower print runs than their rivals – and given the enthusiastic response to our previous Pearson listings of Sea War Stories and Picture Stories of World War II, we anticipate high demand.
PICTURED: AIR WAR PICTURE STORIES #1 VG £25 SOLD