Not a comic book, but a somewhat related item (a Big Little Book) - I'm putting
it here in the superhero/war section because this is where I've been putting other "various"
items.Big Little Books were small and thick, this one had 432
pgs. They usually alternated one page of text, with one page of black and white
or two-color artwork. They came in both hardcover and softcover format. Very
popular at one time, they were published from the 1930s and seem to have died
out sometime in the late 1970s.
I love the cover of this book - one of the spookiest children's book images I
can imagine, taken from a scene in the story. Adapted from a once popular
newspaper comic strip (which few remember today), Stanley Link's Tiny Tim
was a lad with the power to shrink. The deft artwork and imaginative stories
have remarkable charm.
