Gato Negro in Barcelona, Spain, was a
popular publisher of film booklets, film star comics, and what is now
called fan fiction: the creating of stories using famous Hollywood
stars as the main characters. Tom Tyler was no exception, as many of
his silent films for FBO appeared among the pages of the “Biblioteca
Films” booklets published by this company. Tom also appeared along
with Tom Mix in the first fifty issues of “Boy”, a weekly
publication that was published around 1933. Targeted towards boys,
these now highly collectible journals were designed to be instructive
as well as entertaining.
Each booklet contained a total of 8
pages, full of illustrations in comic strip format, and measured 8 x
12 1/2” in size and printed on newspaper-quality paper. Look for
the issues of “Boy” marked numbers 1 through 50; issue 51 starts
with other characters.
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