After the first Big Little Book,
The Adventures of Dick Tracy, was published (December 1932), numerous titles were sold through
Woolworth's and other retail store systems during the 1930s. With a name change to Better Little Books during 1938, the series continued into the 1960s. Variations such as Dime Action Books were produced by other publishers, as noted by the Collecting Channel's Andy Hooper: Recently, Robert Thibadeau's project at
Carnegie Mellon University has made at least two Big Little Books available online. Thibadeau attempts to "capture the entire production" of an old book with facsimile images showing pages with wear and tear. "We're basically trying to eternalize that book as it is," says Thibadeau. The Antique Books Digital Library offers two free Big Little Book titles,
Tim McCoy on the Tomahawk Trail and
Bronc Peeler The Lone Cowboy.
Fred Harman's
Bronc Peeler was a Western comic strip character who was a precursor to another comic strip drawn by Harman, the more successful
Red Ryder. ==Mighty Midgets==