CREATOR

Name: Amalgamated Press* (British comics corporation).
Personal dates: Founded in 1901 by Alfred Charles William Harmsworth (1865-1922). Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under Amalgamated in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation has had several imprints over the years of which Fleetway is the most well known.
* Today the corporation is named IPC Media (founded in 1958).

 

 

MAIN STORY
The series premiered in 1925*. Stopped in 1940 after 760 issues.

The issues contain several action and humour stories featuring long forgotten series such as Bertie and Babs, Jolly Jack Robinson, Mick and Molly, Smiler and Smudge, Steve and Stumpy, and The Pentwins.

* The first run was published from 1904 to 1917 (656 issues) and had from 1914 incorporated The Firefly (162 issues), and from 1917 a separate series titled The Butterfly and The Firefly (446 issues).

 

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

None.

 

 

GALLERY
(presenting the front covers from 2 random issues)

#727 - 1931
#931 - 1935

 

 

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