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Issue: Cute Fun Album #1956
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Publisher: FlagGerald G. Swan
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Indicia Publisher: Gerald G. Swan, Ltd.
On Sale Date: 1956
Volume:
Pages: 118
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Price: 48.0 pence GBQ 0-4-0
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Content Items: 40 (32 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Annual publication consisting of text and comic stories combined, some reprinted from US series.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; black and white interior
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Binding: squarebound, hardcover
Publishing Format: was ongoing
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A Treasure Trove of Super Stories and Pictures

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adventure
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Painted cover by unnamed British artist.
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[untitled]

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childrens
This is a... [image of swan] Book And belongs to...
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First interior page invites the owner to write his or her name on the dotted line. Price (4/- NET) is shown in bottom right-hand corner.
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He though surely this was a scene only old England could show.

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fantasy
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Full color frontispiece depicting medieval banquet scene, illustration accompanies the first story presented in this album.
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Cute Fun Album

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Subject Matter
adventure, humorous, jungle
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Title page illustration depicts safari hunter standing in a canoe casting a small net over the snout of a crocodile while an African native paddles.
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CUTE FUN ALBUM 1956

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typeset
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Ghost of Gorse Grange

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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John Beresford
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Subject Matter
fantasy
Uncle George didn't believe in ghosts until he met one...actually rode out with it to hold up a stage-coach of the year 1770!
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Text story with illustrations.
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In the Depths of the Unknown

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Subject Matter
adventure
Lanky Ladd and Fatty Flynn, the boy inventor, go in search of a fabulous under-sea treasure.
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[untitled]

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humorous
The Gagwaggs
I'll train these little buzzers to make honey for me!
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Subject Matter
humorous
Sid Smudge - The Sweep
Sweep-oo!
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[untitled]

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humorous
Alfie
Phooey! I'm not scared of heights...
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Any Odd Jobs

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Michael Kendrick
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Subject Matter
teen
Foghorn Wilson; Ginger Gregory (schoolboys)
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12
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Bob Plate
Pete Riss
Janice Valleau ?
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Subject Matter
mystery
Toni Gayle
A modeling job in Redstone Park...
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The Strange Affair of Dr. Stern

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Alan G. Ramsay
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Subject Matter
adventure, crime
Dr. Stern, headmaster of St. Abbott's; Peter Haslock; Eric Arnold; Billy Lee (schoolboys)
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5.33
Text story with opening page illustration.
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[untitled]

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? [as Robbie]
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Subject Matter
humorous
Billy Banjo
Billy Banjo; two boys building sand castle on the beach.
We've built a nice castle!
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Humorous cartoon filler with an undeniably racist slant.
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[untitled]

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Ray Gill
Joe Donohoe (signed)
Joe Donohoe (signed)
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Subject Matter
adventure, childrens
Fearless Fellers
Stinky Dugan, boy arsonist.
Hey, fellers, there's the new fire truck!
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Exploring

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? [as Bang]
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humorous
Man with radio; jungle native.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Careful Claude
Come back and take your medicine, Fido!
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The War-Drum-Secret

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Frank C. Brooke
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Subject Matter
jungle
Commissioner Innes; Bwali N'Gassum, drum-maker; Mrs. Whitehead with her son Leonard
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10
Text story with accompanying illustrations.
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[untitled]

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humorous
Tufty, the Atomic Boy
He wants to get that nail out of the post does he?
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The Artist

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?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Arty Laff
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[untitled]

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humorous
Busty
There is a cake cooling off in the kitchen...
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[untitled]

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? [as Bang]
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humorous
Careful Claude
I'll take the bus if it is heads...
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humorous
Happy Harry
Tut-tut! My pockets are full of nothing...
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? [as Bang]
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humorous
Simple Sim
I must find a job!
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[untitled]

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?
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Subject Matter
humorous
The Gaggwags
I must try out my new camera right away!
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Welcome, Little Star

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Leslie B. Watt
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Subject Matter
teen
Wally Herrington, radio star; Eddy Denton, band leader
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6.33
Text story with accompanying illustrations.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Celluloid Sam the Camera Man
I want you to take some shots...
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0.67
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Death and the Law

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
non-fiction, opinion
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Essay explains the four legal definitions of death: murder, manslaughter, justifiable homicide, and death by misadventure.
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Volcanic Problem

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Larry Antonette ?
Larry Antonette
Larry Antonette
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Subject Matter
superhero
The Sub-Zero Man
From the planet Venus an expedition tries to reach the Earth...
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The Silver Monoplane

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Leslie Bussey
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Subject Matter
adventure, aviation
Jeff Morgan
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6
Text story with accompanying illustrations.
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[untitled]

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Subject Matter
humorous
Howler College
Now Jones, we have had the Bronze Age and the Stone Age.
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[untitled]

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humorous
Tiny
That's me!
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On the Devil Tree Planet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
science fiction
The Space Tramps
Tubby and Lanky, the Space Tramps.
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The Tower of London

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Mary Irwin
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Subject Matter
historical, non-fiction
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Text article on the Tower of London with accompanying illustration.
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A Different Proposition

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
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Subject Matter
humorous
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Odds & Ends
What made you steal from that tea shop?
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Simple Sim
So you want a window cleaning job, eh?
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Curious Forms of Communication

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
non-fiction
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An article that discusses forms of communication other than writing that have been used throughout history.
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous
Ingy Roob
Gosh! Apples and I'm broke!
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[untitled]

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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?
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Subject Matter
humorous
Busty
Get off to school at once!
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