The One Staple Years....16070
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| So as some of you have seen in other threads, I recently just got a Four Color II #12 (Bambi) from Ebay. While doing my processing on the book, I saw it only had one staple. Now it has been awhile since I have had a book from the War years, but I do seem to remember them only having the single staple due to metal rationing. Did Timely and DC also only use one staple during those years, or was it only the lessor publishers? |
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Pre_Coder private msg quote post Address this user | |
| I've never seen (or known of) a Timely or DC book with a single staple published during that era. If so, it was probably manufacturing error. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Pre_Coder I don't know. This book has a single staple smack dab in the middle of the spine. Seems that due to that fact, the cover and become completely detached (I knew this fact when I bid on it) I'll post a photo later when I get my phone recharged. |
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| I have seen several Fawcett books, like Captain Marvel, from around 1944 that have one center staple. I can’t think of any Marvel or DC’s like that, but I am not a staple expert by any stretch. | ||
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southerncross private msg quote post Address this user | |
  Sub-mariner 16 Timely published with just one staple in the middle of the book. |
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My cap 37 has one staple  |
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QuaBrot private msg quote post Address this user | |
| Yes, War books commonly had one staple due to rationing. If you think "what good would using only one staple on a comic book to save metal?" realize that comic print runs in those days regularly reached close to a million copies of each book (according to Wikipedia Captain Marvel - who most of you may know as Shazam - reached 1.4 million copies per issue!), so eliminating one staple for tens of millions of comic books each month was actually a pretty big deal. |
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southerncross private msg quote post Address this user | |
@QuaBrot exactly and the publishers can say they are doing their bit, including propaganda covers  |
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