Series Name | Years in Print | Issues (Printings) |
Billy the Kid Book of Picture Stories {Hardcovers} | 1957 - 1958 | 2 |
Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue {Comic Books} | 1929 - 1934 | 245 |
Bubbles {Comic Books}
Note: Some issues were not numbered?
Merged with The Children's Fairy at some point to be determined.
|
1921 - 1941 | 1024 |
Buck Jones Annual {Comic Books} | 1957 - 1958 | 2 |
Butterfly {Comic Books} | 1904 - 1917 | 656 |
Butterfly {Comic Books} | 1925 - 1940 | 760 |
Butterfly and Firefly {Comic Books} | 1917 - 1925 | 446 |
Butterfly Annual {Comic Books} | 1939 - ? | 1 |
Captain Condor Space-Man of the Unknown Moon {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
The Champion {Comic Books}
Note: Story paper that included some comics near the end of its run. Merged into Tiger.
|
1922 - 1955 | 1 |
Charlie Chaplin Fun Book {Comic Books} | 1915 | 1 |
Chicks' Own {Comic Books} | 1920 - 1957 | 1605 |
Chicks' Own Annual {Comic Books} | 1924 - 1957 | 33 |
Children's Fairy {Comic Books} | 1919 - 1921 | 76 |
Children's Sunday Fairy {Comic Books} | 1919 | 3 |
Chuckles {Comic Books}
Note: 517 issues, mostly unnumbered.
|
1914 - 1923 | 6 |
Comet {Comic Books}
Note: Title on cover varies:
Comet - #74, 193-422, 561-580
Comet the All Star Comic - #85-91
Comet a Happy Family Comic - #92-127, 156, 167-171
Comet Comic - #128-145, 182-192
The Comet Adventure Weekly - #423-518
The Comet Weekly - #519-560
Most early issues (until at least 145) are noted as "New Series" between issue number and date.
|
1949 - 1959 | 510 |
Comic Cuts {Comic Books} | 1890 - 1953 | 3305 |
Comic Home Journal {Comic Books} | 1895 - 1904 | 488 |
Comic Life {Comic Books}
Note: Unnumbered. Many more issues remain to be documented.
|
1920 - 1928 | 5 |
Confessions Library {Comic Books} | 1959 - 1960 | 44 |
Cowboy Comics {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1957 | 204 (206) |
Cowboy Picture Library {Comic Books} | 1957 - 1962 | 264 (274) |
Crackers {Comic Books} | 1929 - 1941 | 615 |
Famous Romance Library {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1956 - 1961 | 171 |
The Favorite Comic {Comic Books} | 1911 - 1917 | 324 |
Film Fun {Comic Books} | 1920 - 1962 | 2222 |
Film Fun Annual {Comic Books} | 1938 - 1961 | 24 |
Film Picture Stories {Comic Books} | 1934 - 1935 | 30 |
Firefly {Comic Books} | 1914 - 1915 | 51 |
Firefly {Comic Books}
Note: Second series.
|
1915 - 1917 | 111 |
Fun and Fiction {Comic Books} | 1911 - 1914 | 124 |
The Funny Wonder {Comic Books} | 1893 - 1899 | 325 |
The Funny Wonder {Comic Books} | 1899 - 1901 | 109 |
The Funny Wonder {Comic Books} | 1914 - 1942 | 1404 |
The Funny Wonder Annual {Comic Books} | 1935 - 1941 | 5 |
Girls' Crystal {Comic Books}
Note: Numbering continues from Girls' Crystal (Amalgamated Press ?, 1935 series), a story paper.
|
1953 - 1963 | 529 |
Girls' Crystal Annual {Comic Books}
Note: Comics content increases over the years from very little in the earliest issues to almost entirely comics by the 1970s.
|
1939 - 1978 | 39 |
Golden {Comic Books} | 1937 - 1940 | 135 |
The Golden Book of Comics {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Halfpenny Wonder {Comic Books} | 1914 | 39 |
Happy Days {Comic Books} | 1938 - 1939 | 45 |
Illustrated Chips {Comic Books}
Note: Renamed simply "Chips" sometime after February 1952 (issue #2933) and before June 1953 (issue #2983).
|
1890 - 1952 | 2997 |
Illustrated Chips {Comic Books} | 1890 | 6 |
Jack and Jill {Comic Books} | 1909 | 3 |
Jester {Comic Books} | 1912 - 1920 | 465 |
Jester {Comic Books} | 1924 - 1940 | 847 |
Jester and Wonder {Comic Books} | 1902 - 1912 | 506 |
Jingles {Comic Books} | 1934 - 1954 | 741 |
John Wesley {Comic Books} | 1953 | 1 |
The Joker {Comic Books}
Note: Later issues may have been published by Fleetway.
|
1927 - 1940 | 655 |
Jolly Comic {Comic Books}
Note: First issue dated 19th January 1935.
|
1935 - 1939 | 250 |
Jolly Jester {Comic Books} | 1920 - 1924 | 165 |
Jolly Times {Comic Books}
Note: Supplement to London Magazine.
|
1920 | 5 |
Jungle Jinks {Comic Books} | 1923 - 1925 | 62 |
Kinema Comic {Comic Books} | 1920 - 1932 | 651 |
Kit Carson's Cowboy Annual {Comic Books} | 1954 - 1960 | 7 |
Knockout {Comic Books}
Note: Merged with Magnet in 1941, became Knockout and Magnet until 1945, then just Knockout again. Merged with Valiant.
Cover title changed to Knockout and Comic Cuts starting with #760.
First 1054 issues were numbered but after that only dated.
|
1939 - 1963 | 1240 |
Knockout Annual {Hardcovers} | 1957 - 1962 | 6 |
Knockout Fun Book {Comic Books} | 1941 - 1956 | 16 |
Larks {Comic Books} | 1927 - 1940 | 656 |
Lion {Comic Books}
Note: Only the first 378 issues are numbered; the rest are listed by date only.
213-217 is a single comic. Because of a strike in the summer of 1959, there were only two undated issues published between 20 June 1959 and 29 August 1959.
|
1952 - 1959 | 389 |
Little Sparks {Comic Books}
Note: Second series.
|
1920 - 1922 | 124 |
Little Sparks {Comic Books} | 1920 | 4 |
Lot-O'-Fun {Comic Books}
Note: Numbering continued from Lot-O'-Fun (Henderson, 1906 series). Many more issues remain to be documented.
|
1920 - 1929 | 4 |
Love Romance {Comic Books} | 1950 | 2 |
Marilyn {Comic Books}
Note: Issues until around 1959 included issue numbers (possibly at the time Amalgamated Pess was sold to the Mirror Group/Fleetway Publications). After that time, only dates were used to identify the issues.
In the Complete Catalogue of British Comics, Denis Gifford reports 547 issues from 19 March 1955 to 18 September 1965. There are 549 weeks between those two dates, suggesting two weekly issues were not published or Gifford miscounted.
|
1955 - 1965 | 549 |
Merry and Bright {Comic Books} | 1910 - 1917 | 337 |
Merry and Bright the Favorite Comic {Comic Books} | 1917 - 1935 | 928 |
Mighty Midget Comic {Comic Books} | 1958 | 4 |
Monthly Playbox {Comic Books} | 1904 - 1905 | 6 |
My Favourite {Comic Books} | 1928 - 1934 | 351 |
Only My Fun {Comic Books}
Note: Part of the Wonder Box #4.
|
1908 | 1 |
The Penny Wonder {Comic Books} | 1912 | 47 |
Playbox {Comic Books}
Note: More issues remain to be documented.
|
1898 - ? | 2 |
Playbox {Comic Books} | 1905 - 1910 | 61 |
Playbox {Comic Books} | 1910 - 1913 | 44 |
Playbox {Comic Books} | 1925 - 1955 | 1279 |
Playbox Annual {Comic Books}
Note: Some issues the title page splash image says, "A Picture and Story Book for Children." Issues can blend text stories and full page or partial page illustrations. Includes panel sequences.
|
1909 - 1956 | 48 |
Playhour {Comic Books} | 1910 | 3 |
Playhour Pictures {Comic Books} | 1954 - 1955 | 31 |
Playtime {Comic Books} | 1919 - 1923 | 243 |
Playtime {Comic Books} | 1923 - 1929 | 307 |
Puck {Comic Books} | 1904 - 1940 | 1867 |
Radio Fun {Comic Books} | 1938 - 1959 | 1018 |
Radio Fun Annual {Comic Books} | 1940 - 1960 | 21 |
The Rainbow {Comic Books}
Note: Indicia from #824: "Printed and Published every Monday by the Proprietors, The Amalgamated Press, Ltd, The Fleetway House, Farrington Street, London, E.C.4. Registered for transmission by Canadian Magazine Post. Entered as Second Class Matter March 15, 1929 at the Post Office, Boston, Mass. Subscription rates: Inland and Abroad, 11s per annum, 5s 6d for six months. Sole agents for South Africa: The Central News Agency, Ltd. Sole agents for Australia and New Zealand, Messrs. Gordon and Gotch, Ltd. - Saturday, November 30, 1929. NN"
On page 3, "The Editor's Chat", they welcome story submissions for prizes. Editorial address is RAINBOW, 5, Carmelite Street, London, E.C.4 (Comp.)
|
1914 - 1956 | 1898 |
Rainbow Annual {Comic Books} | 1924 - 1957 | 10 |
Round the Nursery Fire {Comic Books}
Note: Supplement to Family Journal.
|
1915 | 5 |
Roxy {Comic Books} | 1958 - 1963 | 288 |
School Friend {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1965 | 766 |
School Friend Picture Library {Comic Books} | 1962 - 1965 | 38 |
Sparkler {Comic Books} | 1931 - 1939 | 251 |
Sports Fun {Comic Books} | 1922 | 13 |
Sun {Comic Books}
Note: Merged with Lion in 1959, when Amalgamated Press became Fleetway Publications. This title was called Lion and Sun (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1959 series).
|
1952 - 1959 | 395 |
Sun Comic {Comic Books} | 1949 - 1952 | 122 |
Sunbeam {Comic Books} | 1922 - 1926 | 173 |
Sunbeam {Comic Books} | 1926 - 1940 | 747 |
Sunday Fairy {Comic Books} | 1919 | 22 |
Super Detective Library {Comic Books}
Note: Investigate where the title and publisher changed from Super Detective Library (Amalgamated, 1953 series) to Super Detective Picture Library (Fleetway, 1959 series). Check #153-155.
|
1953 - 1959 | 154 (157) |