British Update: CSD Putney Finale – Esoterica and Obscurities – Mostly Miller!
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: For the final part of our CSD Collection of Picture Libraries, we have a selection primarily from the Britsh publisher L. Miller, who brought both reprint and UK-originated material to 1950’s newsagents in a variety of formats. Here, his digest-sized/Pocket Library contributions include Bronc Saddler (“The Modern Westerner”), and the more traditional Western hero Tex Austin, and detectives Mark Conway and Theo Drake. Non-Miller entries are Micron’s Paul Temple Library, with new adventures of Francis Durbridge’s celebrated sleuth, and Weird Science Illustories #1, from the Glasgow branch of the US’s Magazine Enterprises (!), which, despite its EC-inspired name and Fiction House rip-off cover, contains text stories and all-new comic strips. For grade and price details, as always, see our online listings. And so, we close the doors on the CSD Collection, a cornucopia of Cowboy adventures, Schoolgirl hijinks and Detective thrillers which has kept us entertained for months – but there’s many more Picture Libraries in our future listings, so keep watching these updates!