Politikin Zabavnik

[2] The slogan once said "For everyone from 7 to 77", but was changed after the editor received a letter from a reader saying he had recently turned 78 and asking whether he was still fit to read it.

[3] First editorship consisted of journalists from Politika, headed by Vladislav S. Ribnikar, Dušan Timotijević and Živojin Vukadinović.

The concept of Politikin Zabavnik was balanced relation between comics and texts, such as novels, stories and interesting facts.

[4] Beside Disney's comic strips Politikin Zabavnik published comics such as: Jungle Jim, Ming Foo, Little Annie Rooney, The Lone Ranger, Red Ryder, Thimble Theatre, Curley Harper [fr], Brick Bradford, and King of the Royal Mounted.

Domestic comic authors also had significant space: Đorđe Lobačev (comics related to Serbian folklore – Baš Čelik and Čardak ni na nebu ni na zemlji), Moma Marković (Rista sportista – adventures of Belgrade boys), Konstantin Kuznjecov (adaptation of Pushkin's tales in verse – The Tale of the Golden Cockerel and The Tale of Tsar Saltan), and Sergej Solovjev (adaptation of R. L. Stevenson's Treasure Island).

The main difference between Politikin Zabavnik and concurrent comic publishers, such as Mika Miš and Mikijevo carstvo, was textual parts containing crosswords, novels, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, news from science to sport, and numerous short, interesting and edifying texts.

Additionally it had exclusive rights on, in that time in Serbia, the extremely popular Walt Disney comics.

Politikin zabavnik featured novels of Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, H. G. Wells and many other famous writers.

Nikola Lekić, chief editor in that time, changed its form from newspaper to magazine format (25×33 cm), and it was now published in color.

[1] Starting from 1971, Politikin Zabavnik was also printed in the Latin alphabet and Slovenian,[9] and at its peak it reached a number of 330,000 copies per issue (1975).

At the beginning of 1993, due to an embargo against FR Yugoslavia imposed by United Nations, Politikin Zabavnik had to stop publishing Disney's comic strips, and instead of Donald Duck just a silhouette of him appeared in the logo.

Among the writers awarded are: Grozdana Olujić, Enes Kišević, Milovan Vitezović, Gradimir Stojković, Pavao Pavličić, Vladimir Stojšin, Branko V. Radičević, Slobodan Stanišić, Mirjana Stefanović, Milenko Maticki, Svetlana Velmar Janković, Vesna Aleksić, Vladimir Andrić, Uglješa Šajtinac and others.

Politikin Zabavnik published an article about Serbian WW2 far-right politician and ideologue Dimitrije Ljotić.