The Overseas Weekly

The Overseas Weekly World's Greatest Comics
sample from 1965
Country/language:	Germany / English
Publishing company:	(International Media Co./ (Overseas Media Corp. ?)
Publishing years:	1950-1975
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The Overseas Weekly was a tabloid, published in English, exclusively destined to the American forces which were stationed outside the U.S.A. (mainly in Germany and others NATO treaty places in Europe). It was only sold in newsstands of the U.S. bases and was "A touch of Home - Away from Home", as subtitled on the front page.

History

From 1950 to 1975, it was at first printed in Frankfurt am Main then in Darmstadt, both at the time in West Germany. Written and edited by former GI's, the publication was destined to defend soldier's rights in delivering less official information than the ones given by the official publication “The Stars and Stripes”.

Like the usual American newspapers, it included a comics supplement in color. Late 50's the supplement was reduced from 16 pages to 12 pages. In the seventies comics were however appearing, without any supplement and only into the black and white tabloid pages. Generally with a delay of three weeks on the original Sunday pages, it included Mandrake the Magician and others classical strips such as "The Phantom", "Flash Gordon", "The Lone Ranger", "Big Ben Bolt", "Beetle Bailey"...

It's worth to note that, especially for the Far East forces, another edition was printed in Saigon (then in South Vietnam), always with the same comics supplement.

Published stories

Sunday stories

In the issue of December 16, 1974 the newspaper advertises that the Weekly in the next issue will be running five pages of vintage comics featuring: "The Phantom" 1937, "Flash Gordon" 1940, "Inspector Wade" 1935, "Secret Agent X-)" 1934, "Popeye" 1933, "The Ciso Kid" 1951, "Mandrake the Magician" 1934, "King of the Royal Mounted" 1938, "Red Ryder" 1949 and "Jungle Jim" 1935.

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Original story title	Start date	End date	Comment
"The Hidden Kingdom of Murderers"	May 13, 1935	May 25, 1935	Ending with the strip of April 7, 1935