Comic books in 'Shoe Store Giveaway'

This Dick Tracy shoe store promotional giveaway is copyrighted 1939 and contains reprints from the Dick Tracy newspaper strip from that same year. Actual publication date may have been a year later. 16 pages, full color, all newsprint, 7-in. x 10-in., no cover price.

Story and art by Harold Gray. A shoe-store promotion featuring a shortened version of Four Color (1942 Series 2) #18, which in turn reprinted Little Orphan Annie newspaper strips from 1942. Annie organizes local kids into "Junior Commando" units to do wartime homefront work, like collecting scrap metal and selling war bonds. These comics inspired real-life Junior Commando salvage drives by children during World War II. 16 pages, Full Color.

This Smilin' Jack shoe store promotional giveaway is copyrighted 1936 and distributed in 1938. Promo contains reprints from the Smilin' Jack newspaper strip. 16 pages, full color, all newsprint, 7-in. x 10-in., no cover price.

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This Terry and the Pirates shoe store promotional giveaway is copyrighted 1938 and contains reprints from the Terry and the Pirates newspaper strip from that same year. Actual publication date may have been a year later. 16 pages, full color, all newsprint, 7-in. x 10-in., no cover price.