The Story Paper Collector

Bill Gander was born in Croydon in 1898 and moved to Canada with his parents when he was thirteen. As a keen collector of story papers Bill bought a tabletop press to be used for sending out lists of his requirements to other collectors. In 1941 he started publishing a small magazine containing stories about the story papers and their authors which he sent free to other collectors.

This magazine, the Story Paper Collector was the fore runner of the Collectors Digest and was incorporated into the CD when Bill Gander died in 1966. Bill was plagued by ill health for many years and had decided that issue 100 would be the last but unfortunately he passed away suddenly after the publication of issue 95. You can read an obituary from an unidentified Canadian newspaper here.

Four volumes of the Story Paper Collectors were published. The plan was for each volume to contain 25 issues but due to Bill's death in 1966 the final volume was limited to 20 issues. No contents list or index were published for volume 4.

Individual issues can be viewed or downloaded from the links below. If you prefer you can download a RAR file containing all the issues here.