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Defiant1:
I do not own this comic despite have a VERY large collection of oversized comics.
I do own a comic that is larger. I own the Kiss 4K (Destroyer Edition). I have not been motivated to scan mine in sections and stitch the pieces together.
Instead, I post this image that I swiped from a site online.
The front cover is the size of a wall poster.
https://66.media.tumblr.com/0f7899be969deeec510da0a6a383accc/tumblr_pnpkf4wxzC1rl13p0o1_400.jpghttp://www.angelfire.com/comics2/treasury/Other/001_Kiss_4k_Destroyer_Edition.html

There is a comic that is slightly larger than this one.

crashryan:
I loved this comic when it came out...so much Wood, so many new (to me) artists. What disappointed me was that, given such a huge page, the editors chose to cram in dozens of little panels--some even smaller than regular comic panels--instead of taking advantage of the size to present giant-sized panels in the spirit of Golden Age Sunday comics pages.

erwin-k:
Crash,

I've always believed that most of the book was created as content for regular sized books. A few, like the one about Americans learning to fly for the French in WW1, seemed to be created with the large format in mind.

While the ability to have larger panels is a good thing, it can get carried waaay too far. I just about gag over some current stuff where almost every "panel" is a full page.

Eisner told complex, and even epic storys in The Spirit with a full page splash and six or eight panels for the other six pages. Or, have you ever read Steve Ditko's Mysterious Suspense #1 with The Question?

crashryan:
I agree, Erwin-K, that many Wham-O features seem originally to have been prepared for standard size comics. Some I know weren't...for instance, Dennis Ellefson drew his stuff specifically for that book. I also agree that giant panels can get out of hand. I was thinking more of full-page comics like the 30s/40s Prince Valiant or the strips of the teens and early 20s (Little Nemo, Nibsy the Newsboy, Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Polly and Her Pals, etc.)

erwin-k:

--- Quote from: crashryan on March 02, 2019, 05:48:02 PM ---I agree, Erwin-K, that many Wham-O features seem originally to have been prepared for standard size comics. Some I know weren't...for instance, Dennis Ellefson drew his stuff specifically for that book. I also agree that giant panels can get out of hand. I was thinking more of full-page comics like the 30s/40s Prince Valiant or the strips of the teens and early 20s (Little Nemo, Nibsy the Newsboy, Frank King's Gasoline Alley, Polly and Her Pals, etc.)

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Looks like we're pretty much on the same panel… errr page.  ;)

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