UPDATED: Paul Temple library - Micron

In 1964 digest publisher Micron produced 10 issues of the 'Paul Temple library' reprinting newspapers strips from the Evening News. I own issues 1, 2 and 4 and the reprints are very scarce indeed. 

Further update - issues 11 & 12 have now been discovered. Copies of the original recently spotted for sale on the internet by sidcol

Update

I'm still missing cover images for issue 9 and 10.

There's a copy of issue #3 for sale (as a 'buy it now') on that eBay for £80 here

There's a copy of issue #8 for sale (as a 'buy it now') on that eBay for £80 here

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 1 - Paul Temple and the magpie mystery

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 2 - Paul Temple and the gun runners

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 3 - Paul Temple and the nerve gas gang

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 4 - Paul Temple in Operation Shrike

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 5 - Paul Temple plays with fire

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 6 - Paul Temple meets his double

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 7 - Paul Temple and the safari mystery

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 8 - Paul Temple in the charge is murder!

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 9 - Paul Temple and the Q.40 mystery

image not to hand - can you help?

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 10 - Paul Temple and the missing Van Gogh

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Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 11 - Paul Temple and the Cabloni affair

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 12 - Paul Temple and the affair of the tired tiger

If you love Paul Temple why not head over to 'Bear Alley' (here) as Steve has reprinted a number of the strips.

You can also get (in German) some reprints from here

UPDATED: Micron minitext series

Ages ago I came across a couple of 'books' that look like Commando and were published by a company (Micron) that issued picture libraries but were in fact text based (albeit with plenty of illustrations). I'd mentally filed these 2 booklets away as just being an odd thing that the company produced, now I've discovered that there were at least 16 in the series and possible more.

The first 2 books (at least) weren't numbered or even branded as being in the 'minitext' series. This and the fact that issues 1 & 2 (at least) were cheaper (1/- rather than 1/6) than the earliest 'branded' issues I've found so far (#5) makes me think that the first 2 booklets were to test the market a bit and, having proved successful, more booklets were subsequently produced (at a higher price point).

I love collating a series so here's what I've found so far...

Thanks to friend of the blog James Connelly for helping me fill in all the blanks I had in my original listing & to Jeremy Briggs for reminding me that Illustrators #3 has an article by ex-Micron editor Keith Chapman - so that's well worth picking up...

Micron publication - minitext book 1 - Fighting planes of world war 2

Micron publication - minitext book 2 - Bombers of world war 2

Micron publication - minitext book 3 - Fighting Britain

Micron publication - minitext book 4 - British tanks of world war 2

Micron publication - minitext book 5 - Fighting jets

Micron publication - minitext book 6 - British racing cars

Micron publication - minitext book 7 - British athletics 1962

Micron publication - minitext book 8 - Fighter aircraft of World War 1

Micron publication - minitext book 9 - Facts and figures of the American west

Micron publication - minitext book 10 - German secret weapons of world war 2

Micron publication - minitext book 11 - The red air force, 1913-1963

Micron publication - minitext book 12 - veteran and vintage cars

Micron publication - minitext book 13 - Japanese ships and naval aircraft

Micron publication - minitext book 14 - rockets and missiles

Micron publication - minitext book 15 - British locomotives 1829-1963

Micron publication - minitext book 16 - foreign racing cars 1895-1963

Micron publication - minitext book 17 - Luftwaffe

art & text by John Weal

Micron publication - minitext book 18 - bomber command

A number of these images are sourced from auctions that are currently running on ebay - a search for 'Micron minitext' will take you to them

UPDATED: Paul Temple library - Micron

In 1964 digest publisher Micron produced 10 issues of the 'Paul Temple library' reprinting newspapers strips from the Evening News. I own issues 1, 2 and 4 and the reprints are very scarce indeed. 

Update

I'm still missing cover images for issue 9 and 10.

There's a copy of issue #3 for sale (as a 'buy it now') on that eBay for £80 here

There's a copy of issue #8 for sale (as a 'buy it now') on that eBay for £80 here

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 1 - Paul Temple and the magpie mystery

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 2 - Paul Temple and the gun runners

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 3 - Paul Temple and the nerve gas gang

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 4 - Paul Temple in Operation Shrike

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 5 - Paul Temple plays with fire

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 6 - Paul Temple meets his double

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 7 - Paul Temple and the safari mystery

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 8 - Paul Temple in the charge is murder!

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 9 - Paul Temple and the Q.40 mystery

image not to hand - can you help?

Paul Temple library (Micron) issue 10 - Paul Temple and the missing Van Gogh

image not to hand - can you help?

If you love Paul Temple why not head over to 'Bear Alley' (here) as Steve has reprinted a number of the strips.

You can also get (in German) some reprints from here

Micron minitext series

Ages ago I came across a couple of 'books' that look like Commando and were published by a company (Micron) that issued picture libraries but were in fact text based (albeit with plenty of illustrations). I'd mentally filed these 2 booklets away as just being an odd thing that the company produced, now I've discovered that there were at least 16 in the series and possible more.

The first 2 books (at least) weren't numbered or even branded as being in the 'minitext' series. This and the fact that issues 1 & 2 (at least) were cheaper (1/- rather than 1/6) than the earliest 'branded' issues I've found so far (#5) makes me think that the first 2 booklets were to test the market a bit and, having proved successful, more booklets were subsequently produced (at a higher price point).

I love collating a series so here's what I've found so far...

Micron publication - minitext book 1 - Fighting planes of world war 2

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 2 - Bombers of world war 2

Micron publication - minitext book 3 - Fighting Britain

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 4 - British tanks of world war 2

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 5 - Fighting jets

Micron publication - minitext book 6 - British racing cars

Micron publication - minitext book 7 - British athletics 1962

Micron publication - minitext book 8 - Fighter aircraft of World War 1

Micron publication - minitext book 9 - Facts and figures of the American west

Micron publication - minitext book 10 - German secret weapons of world war 2

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 11 - The red air force, 1913-1963

Micron publication - minitext book 12 - veteran and vintage cars

Micron publication - minitext book 13 - Japanese ships and naval aircraft

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 14 - rockets and missiles

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 15 - British locomotives 1829-1963

Micron publication - minitext book 16 - foreign racing cars 1895-1963

Micron publication - minitext book 17 - Luftwaffe

image not to hand - can you help?

Micron publication - minitext book 18 - bomber command

image not to hand - can you help?

A number of these images are sourced from auctions that are currently running on ebay - a search for 'Micron minitext' will take you to them