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Europe produced huge amounts of Disney universe comics, which apparently there was not enough market for in USA. This happened in 12+ countries but oddly not UK.

There are 500+ (!) books in the series that have been coming out since 1950s, in A5 pocket format and with 250 comic pages. Most have been written in Italy the translated.

They are so European that I cannot even find an English wikipedia page for them but here's something in Danish: https://comicwiki.dk/wiki/Jumbobog



There are still subcultures around, too. At least on reddit there is /r/LTB_iel which is a spoof of /r/me_irl: https://old.reddit.com/r/LTB_iel/top/

There are a lot of jokes in those that went over my head as a kid.


In German they are called Lustiges Taschenbuch and have been a fixture of most kids' rooms at least since the 80s




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