During a conversation recently with former DC Comics president Paul Levitz, he mentioned something I’d never heard of: the World Color Press Day comic book from 1977, published by World Color Press, the biggest comic-book printing firm in the country. The company got permission from the major publishers to include versions of Superman, Archie, Spider-Man, and many others—unheard of!

After finding a low-res incomplete scan online, I purchased an affordable copy off eBay, which I scanned and turned into a PDF you can download here.

The comic shows many aspects of comic-book printing, most of which are identical to comic strips, but with certain optimizations or standards used for the “floppy” comic-book format. As the booklet was distributed to the public in 1977 without the copyright notice required at the time, it is in the public domain.