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
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Micron publication - minitext book 2 - Bombers of world war 2
Micron publication - minitext book 3 - Fighting Britain
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Micron publication - minitext book 4 - British tanks of world war 2
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Micron publication - minitext book 5 - Fighting jets
Micron publication - minitext book 10 - German secret weapons of world war 2
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Micron publication - minitext book 13 - Japanese ships and naval aircraft
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Micron publication - minitext book 14 - rockets and missiles
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Micron publication - minitext book 17 - Luftwaffe
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Micron publication - minitext book 18 - bomber command
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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
Didn't know these existed! Great article.
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