Third (comic strip)
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Third is used by comic strip collectors and dealers to describe one of the formats in which Sunday strips appear in US newspapers. One page of a full color comics section can be divided horizontally into two, three, or four parts. Comic strip collectors call strips that occupy one-third of a page "thirds". From the mid-nineteen-forties until at least the nineteen-eighties "thirds" were the most common comic strip format, and "thirds" are still common today. "Thirds" usually drop several panels, and so are often incomplete, and are not as sought after by collectors as half pages or a full pages. Most people who casually read the Sunday comics are not aware that they are missing several panels of a strip if their newspaper runs it as a "third".
A few comic strips were designed to be run as "thirds", for example, Steve Canyon and (except for the last few years of its run) On Stage. These strips are complete in the third of a page format, and are cropped and rearranged in the half page, tab, or full page format.
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