Comics Reading Libraries

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™ and © 1973 King Features

Comics Reading Libraries were a series of give-away comic books produced by King Features syndicate and publisher Charlton Comics. The comics feature favorite King characters like Beetle Bailey, Blondie, Popeye, The Phantom and others in stories with simplified text to help youngsters learn to read. Between the stories were games, exercises, and features focussing on word use, punctuation, grammar and facts about books. Issues were given away at schools and libraries throughout the 1970s to encourage reading for fun.

		Notes	Writer	Artist
	#1 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $10.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Tiger, and Quincy		Bud Blake
	#2 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 2 copies available from $1.76	Comics Reading Library presents Beetle Bailey, Blondie, and Popeye
	#3 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Blondie, and Beetle Bailey
	#4 Date:  3/1/1939 Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $4.50 1 copy available for $1.44	Comics Reading Library presents Tim Tyler’s Luck, and Felix the Cat
	#5 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $29.00 2 copies available from $4.50	Comics Reading Library presents Quincy, and Henry
	#6 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $17.00 1 copy available for $8.50	Comics Reading Library presents The Phantom, and Mandrake
	#7 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $22.00 1 copy available for $2.99	Comics Reading Library presents Popeye, and Little King
	#8 Date:  3/1/1939 Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $20.00 3 copies available from $6.50	Indicia lists as Prince Valiant R-08; Comics Reading Library presents Prince Valiant, Flash Gordon, and Brick Bradford; Includes 7 pages of activities with answer sheet; © 1973 King Features; Printed by Charlton Publications Inc.	Harold R. Foster	Harold R. Foster, Frank Bolle, Paul Norris
	#9 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $28.00 1 copy available for $9.99	Comics Reading Library presents Hagar the Horrible, and Boner’s Ark
	#10 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Redeye, and Tiger
	#11 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Blondie, and Hi & Lois
	#12 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Popeye
	#13 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Beetle Bailey, and Little King
	#14 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents Quincy, and Hamlet
	#15 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $8.00 No copies available	Comics Reading Library presents The Phantom, and The Genius; Reprint from The Phantom (1st Series) #63; ca. 1977	Giovanni Fiorentini	Mario Pedrazzi
	#16 Date:  Cover Price:  $0.00 NM Guide:  $5.00 6 copies available from $6.50	Comics Reading Library presents Flash Gordon, and Mandrake