Les As (Poche)

A compact six-issue series from Éditions Vaillant, Les As (Poche) collected stories from the publisher's popular weekly, Vaillant, in a pocket-sized format. Running from 1967 to 1968, it offered readers a portable showcase of the house's adventure and humor strips, featuring the work of regular contributors like Jean Tabary and Christian Godard. Though brief, the series stands as a tidy artifact of Vaillant's mid-60s publishing strategy, repackaging its stable of characters for a new, on-the-go audience.