First Issue: 1st June 1919
Last Issue: 18th May 1940
Copyright: Amalgamated Press
Julius Stafford-Baker
Tiger Tim made his first outing in his own comic in Tiger Tim’s Tales beginning 1st June 1919 five years after the appearance of The Rainbow. Tiger Tim’s Tales ran until 24th January 1920 before its re-launch the following week (31st January) as Tiger Tim’s Weekly. Tiger Tim’s Weekly (the first series) ran until 12th November 1921 before being coloured resized and rebranded the following week 19th November. This second series of Tiger Tim’s Weekly ran until 18th May 1940. The following week on 25th May 1940 Tiger Tim returned home to the pages of Rainbow with the first issue of the newly merged comic Rainbow and Tiger Tim’s Weekly.
A few words from Julius Stafford-Baker – Grandson of the creator of Tiger Tim
The first appearance of The Bruin Boys, with Tiger Tim at Mrs Bruins jungle school, was in a pull out colour supplement to ‘The World & His Wife’, a weekly aimed at domestic staff involved with looking after ‘the master’s’ children at some point during the day. It was originated and drawn by my Grandfather, Julius Stafford-Baker, He had done much comic work for adults and indeed children before this, starting in 1860 or so, in a scandalous journal called ‘Topical Times’.
His work was usually on the front pages (e.g. Hooligan in The Garland’.) and their popularity laid the foundations of the Henderson business, the cornerstone of what became the Amalgamated Press. Foxwell drew it in later years, and after him, in the early 1950s my father also Julius Stafford-Baker took over the series. When Cecil King (Mirror Group) took over, all the A.P., staff and ‘outside contributors’ were no longer used, and an advertising agency drew Tim for the remaining few years.
