@heatherhorns I mean, you're not *wrong*.
As a kid I thought these were 'novelizations' of normal stories, or scripts to be turned into a comic book. Never would have occurred to me they were a hack around postal regulations.
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@Austin_Dern @heatherhorns a hack around postal regulations? how?
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@Felthry @heatherhorns I may have details off, but here's the gist: to be mailed at the lower-cost magazine rates, comic books had to have two pages of typeset, non-advertising copy in them. So add two pages of pointless text story and everybody's happy.
At some point letter columns took over this role. Maybe notes from the editor too. I think postal regulations changed so pure comics count as magazines, at the loss of this microgenre, stories written for the postal inspector to glance at.