First Issue: 15th February 1908Last Issue: 1940Copyright: Amalgamated Press Before comics, there were story papers. Story papers were long text stories with the occasional illustration. Britain has a rich tradition of story papers and any talk of story papers would have to include one the most famous ones, ‘The Magnet Library’. Magnet was the sister…
First Issue: 22nd July 1939Last Issue: 25th January 1941Copyright: DC Thomson Following the success of ‘The Beano Comic’ and ‘The Dandy Comic’, DC Thomson launched a third comic called ‘The Magic Comic’. ‘Koko the Pup’, ‘Full of Tricks and Full of Fun – Koko is a Pal for Everyone’ The front cover star of first…
First Issue: 9th January 1971Last Issue: 12th March 1994Copyright: Independent Television Look-in was the children’s version of the TV Times and mostly consisted of strips of the children’s favourite programs on television including ‘The Tomorrow People’, ‘Space:1999’, ‘The Bionic Woman’, ‘Six Million Dollar Man’, ‘Sapphire & Steel’, ‘Battlestar Galactica’, ‘Buck Rogers’, ‘Charlies Angels’,and ‘Knight Rider’….
First Issue: 24th January 1931Last Issue: 21st july 1934Copyright: Amalgamated Press ‘The Bullseye’ ran fior 183 issues before being relaunched as a comic called ‘Film Picture Stories’. During its run as a story paper, the title published the following stories ‘The Chat’, ‘The House Of Thrills’, ‘The Night Patrol’, ‘The Phantom Of Cursitor Fields’, ‘Mortimer…
First Issue: 16th October 1976Last Issue: 15th April 1978Copyright: IPC Magazines Do Not Be Caught Reading This In Class! Krazy issue number one appeared on 16th October 1976 and included a free gift of ‘Krazy False Teeth’. Stories in the first issue were ‘Krazy or Krazy Not?’, ‘Handy Andy’, ‘Krazy Dictionary’, ‘Fit Fred & Sick…
First Issue: 11th September 1954Last Issue: 30th March 1985Copyright: IPC Magazines Whilst sci-fi fans were lapping up the adventures of Dan Dare, IPC recognised that there was still a market for a sports comic. September 11 1954 saw the appearance of Tiger comic and its free gift of a ‘Space Gun Novelty’. Stories featured ‘Roy…
First Issue: 25th September 1976Last Issue: 20th March 1993Copyright: Egmont UK Limited Some twenty years after joining Melchester Rovers, at a time when most football careers are coming to an end, Roy Race became player manager of Melchester Rovers in 1974. The 1970’s were a significant time for Roy who married Penny Laine and had…
