I happened upon a bunch of these at a local thrift shop. They're somewhere between golden age and magazine sized, and are a full 22-page comic insert that was published with the Calgary Herald between 1977 and 1982. The cover art on all of them is by submission from local kids.
The collection of comics in here is really pretty great. All the old standards, of course, though missing Peanuts, which I find very strange. I'd picked them up in the hopes that they might contain the old Howard the Duck strips, though perhaps they were a bit earlier than this publication. From the superhero set, we do have Spider-Man and the Justice League, and the Archie Sunday strip is also featured here. I don't know if newspapers do inserts like this anymore. I think they're really great, and the ones that came in the Toronto Star on Saturdays were definitely my gateway drug to comics proper.
More to come...
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