The format in these issues hasn’t changed much over the years and there was a non-existent art budget because all the photos were free PR handouts. The down-market busy page look was created using newspaper techniques of hand-lettered headlines, cut-outs, boxes, tone-panels, irregular shaped color panels and typographic style of serif and sans faces, drop caps, blobs, stars, and copy in various line lengths, crossheads and more.
Strangely, ragged right is nowhere to be seen in either issue. An essential feature for this sort of fan publication was the whole page star portraits (the cut out and keep style) and two appear in the 1938 copy but oddly none in the 1955 one.
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