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GIVEAWAYS & PROMOTIONAL COMICS - Government and corporate

Giveaway and promotional comics have been around almost as long as comics themselves. Corporations, politicians and governments have used them to convey their messages. You can find samples of all types, each in their own sub-folder inside this section.

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Loose Comics

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Educational Comics

School giveaways sponsored comics on various themes.

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Government Pamphlets

<i>&#39;In the U.S.A, any work created by a federal government employee or officer is in the public domain, provided that the work was created in that person�s official capacity.&#39;</i> USA government publications are in the Public Domain and therefore can be shared here. We do reserve the right to limit uploads to this section when needed. --- NOTE - many of these govt comics can be found as PDF versions on Richard Graham&#39;s <i>&quot;Government Comics Collection&quot; site, part of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln&#39;s Image &amp; Multimedia Collections:</i> http://contentdm.unl.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/comics Additional materials courtesy Ethan Persoff, http://www.ep.tc

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Graphic Information Service Inc.

1957 - 1958 Notes: Shared address with the publisher Toby: 17 East 45th Street, NY17

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Other Information And Initiatives

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Peter Wheat Bread Giveaways and Misc.

Bread Giveaway books produced by Western Publishing for Bakers Associates, Inc. to help promote Peter Wheat Bread. Adventures ran to 66; News ran to at least 61 NOTE - Issues 1-35 of Adventures and 1-36 of Peter Wheat News feature <b>Walt Kelly</b> art.

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Peter Wheat News Omnibus

Peter Wheat News issues ran in arcs of three issues per story. We&#39;ve collected each arc here and given them their own covers. <b>Walt Kelly</b> provided most of the stock artwork of Peter Wheat and drew the first three years or so of the main giveaway titles, <b>Adventures of Peter Wheat</b> and <b>Peter Wheat News.</b> Later issues were written by <b>Del Connell</b> and drawn by <b>Al Hubbard</b>.

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Politics (non govt giveaways)

(non government publications)

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Product Promotion

Sale - sale -sale Check this out But wait, there&#39;s more While supplies last

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W. T. Grant Co.

Comics Publishing: 1945 - 1957 Number of Issues: 23 W.T. Grant variety stores (1906-1976) dotted America. Competing with Kmart and other chain stores they would eventually fail in the 1970s. They produced several giveaways which we are sharing here.

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