World of Wonder

Publisher: IPC / Oberon BV

Format: Weekly educational comic anthology

First Issue: World of Wonder #1 (28th March 1970)

Last Issue: World of Wonder #258 (1st March 1975)

Absorbed: Tell Me Why, Treasure

Strips: World of Wonder had no strips, but did include a string of illustrated prose tales.

Comments: World of Wonder was an educational title, with each issue carrying different heavily illustrated features on science, history, literature and more. Launched in 1970 as a successor to Tell Me Why and a sister title to the well established Look and Learn, it featured no comic strip stories, but did include fictional tales, mostly abbreviated adaptations of literary classics. Of these, the most notable was probably the first, which unlike most of subsequent stories was not an adaptation of an existing novel, but a brand new SF adventure, A Leap into the Future, which ran in the first ten issues.

The reason for World of Wonder's illustrated text format was so that it could be repackaged for worldwide sales, with the text kept separate from the art so it could easily be switched from one language to another. Printed by Oberon BV in the Netherlands, in the U.K. it was distributed by Fleetway.

First Posted: Circa 13/10/2019
Last updated: 05/11/2023

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