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Series: T. V. Picture Stories Public Domain
Years in Print: 1958 - 1959
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Publisher: FlagPearson Country: Flag United Kingdom Language: English Issues: #CC/1 - #36 (57 Issues, 60 Printings) Continued From Continued From: none Continued In Continued In: none Disclose Tracking Notes:   Disclose Notes: The interior text of some issues call this title "T.V. Picture Series".

This Pearson series used a confusing internal numbering system, initially incorporating the Feature reference (Charlie Chan - CC; Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans - HE etc), then the number of issues that that particular character had appeared in - 1, 2, 3 etc. Followed by the month and year of publication. Hence the first issue of Charlie Chan is numbered CC/1/6/58.

After 15 issues, the series reverted to a standard numbering system on the cover for 12 issues. These new issues also used a different internal numbering system of Feature reference; number in the series; date of publication (now including the day as well as the month and year); and the number of times that the character had appeared in the series. Hence the first issue within this part of the series was WT/1/28/2/59/1 which is William Tell/#1/28th February 1958 and the first appearance of William Tell in this series.

After these 12 issues, the cover issue number disappeared, but the internal numbering continued until the end.

Due to the complicated numbering, this series will be shown in order of when they were published with the full internal reference number used. The 12 issues with a cover number will have that issue number plus the internal reference number.

Emergency Ward 10 was part of this series for the first four issues of the title. In February 1959 it was split from TV Picture Stories into its own series with issue 5. Neither the Emergency Ward 10 series nor TV Picture Stories advertised each other in their pages from this point.
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Publication Type: Comic Books
Color: colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: pocket size (125mm x 185mm)
Paper Stock: newsprint
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: ongoing
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Issue # Publication Date Pages Content Items Issue Images Count
#2 [EW] January 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#4 [EW] January 1959 68 5/1/1 Issue Image
#1 [EW] June 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#3 [EW] October 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#CC/1 June 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#HE/1 2 June 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#OSS/1 July 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#CC/2 August 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#HE/2 September 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#OSS/2 September 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
3 Issue Images total
#CC/3 2 October 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#HE/3 October 1958 68 5/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#OSS/3 October 1958 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#CC/4 January 1959 68 5/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#HE/4 January 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#OSS/4 January 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#SF/1 February 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#BU/1 February 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#OSS/5 February 1959 68 5/1/1 Issue Image
#1 February 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
3 Issue Images total
#2 March 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#3 March 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#4 March 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
2 Issue Images total
#5 March 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image
#6 April 1959 68 2/1/1 Issue Image

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