Spotlight on newspaper strip layout
The pre WWII Years
In the early years Phil Davis drew the daily strips on large Bristol board (22.5 x 28.5 inches - about 572 x 724 mm), where the art for one strip covered about 20.5 x 4.5 inches (520.7 x 114.3 mm).
The daily strip were printed in newspapers with 8 columns a page, and with the Mandrake strip spanning 5 or 6 columns. Newspapers were printed in different sizes and the columns therefore had different widths. But, a five columns wide newspaper strip was roughly 10 and 1/4 x 3 inches (260 x 762 mm). - Roughly half of the original art by Phil Davis, and about the width of a standard modern comic book (10 and 1/8 inches).
In addition the strips were printed with the title[footnotes 1] was typeset (in all upper case letters) and positioned to the right in the white space area above that strip, with the byline[footnotes 2] on the right. An episode subtitle[footnotes 3] (in upper and lower case) was centered between the title and the byline.
The WWII Years
In 1942 newspapers began cutting back on the number of comics they printed due to shortages of materials (including newsprint and ink]. KFS responded by offering comics in reduced sized, including the Mandrake strip also in 4-column width.
For Mandrake's part this can be seen from the fifth week of Baron Kord, which are available in two different variants - 5 and 4 columns width:
October 12
- Layout-42-10-13.jpg
October 13
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October 14
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October 15
- Layout-42-10-16.jpg
October 16
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October 17
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