British Update: World Distributors Movie Classics – from Animal World to Zorro
*Vintage UK/Australian Reprints of US Material: In the Palaeozoic Era, back when your chums at 30th Century were young, we didn’t have the DVDs or Videos or Laser Discs that you urchins have these days, oh no… If we wanted a copy of a movie to keep and experience again, we had to buy the comic book version of it! Several companies, particularly Dell, traded on this, with a large part of their output being movie adaptations, which the British company World Distributors re-packaged as a series titled ‘Movie Classics’. Unusually for UK reprints, these were reprinted in full-colour rather than black & white, and were popular in the comic-starved days of the pre- and early-distribution 1950’s. Titles new to our lists this time include Animal World, Big Circus, Brave One, Buckskin, Circus Boy, FBI Story, Last Hunter, Man In Space, White Wilderness, Wings of Eagles, and Zorro – the last with some very tasty Alex Toth art. All of these are under the film’s title rather than the series title of Movie Classics, so you’ll find Animal World listed under A rather than M.