Publication Dates: 17 January 1920 – 8 September 1962
Number of Issues Published: 2225 (#1 – #2225)
Annuals
Publication Dates: 1938 – 1961
Number of Issues Published: 24 (#1938 – #1961)
Film Fun was a British comic book that ran from (issues dates) 17 January 1920 to 15 September 1962, when it merged with Buster, a total of 2225 issues. There were also annuals in the forties and fifties. It was renamed Film Fun and Thrills in 1959. As the title suggests, the comic mainly featured comic strip versions of people from films from the 1920s to the 1960s. Pre-war circulation at its peak was around 800,000 copies per week.
The cover of the first edition featured Harold Lloyd but named as “Winkle”, the screen name by which he was known in Britain at the time.
Frederick George Cordwell was better known to Film Fun fans as Eddie the Happy Editor. Cordwell edited the comic until his death in 1949, aged 62 in Richmond, Surrey. Cordwell wrote many scripts for the strips as well as text stories for Film Fun. He introduced the idea of characters receiving huge plates of bangers and mash, giant Christmas puddings, pies and such from grateful beneficiaries of their efforts. Cordwell even made it into the stories himself, meeting Laurel and Hardy a number of times, Joe E Brown, Wheeler and Woolsey and other characters.
Picture Fun merged with Film Fun soon after its launch in 1920, followed by Kinema Comic in 1932, Film Picture Stories in 1935, Illustrated Chips in 1953 and [[Top Spot] (comics)|Top Spot] in 1960. In 1962, sales of Film Fun dropped below 125,000 a week, prompting IPC to merge the comic with Buster.
Strips included…
“Abbott and Costello” (G. W. Wakefield, Walter Bell)
“The Adventures of Winkle, The Pathe Mirth Wizard”
“Buck Jones”
“Bruce Forsyth”
“Bud & Lou”
“Buster Keaton”
“Donald Duck”
“Harold Lloyd”
“Joe E. Brown”
“Laurel and Hardy”
“Lucky Luke” (Maurice de Bevere and René Goscinny)
“Lupino Lane”
“Niblo Nibbs” (Eric Roberts)
“Old Mother Riley”
“Popeye” (Elsie Segar)
“Schnozzle”
“Scoop Donovan” (Geoff Campion)
“Sydney Howard”
“Tim McCoy”
“Tommy Cooper”
“Tony Hancock” (written by Nobby Clark)
“Wheeler & Woolsey”
1,418-420,423-425,427
428,452-454,968,975,1010,1159
1314,1319,1381,1399,1406,1441,1461,1495
1499,1504,1505,1510-1514
1515-1522
1523-1530
1531-1538
1539-1546
1547-1554
1555-1558,1560-1563
1564-1571
1572-1576,1579-1581
1584-1587,1589-1591,1593
1594-1598,1600-1602
1603,1604,1608-1612,1620
1623,1624,1626,1627,1715,1723,1725,1732
1733,1738,1739,1748,1771,1773,1774,1776
1780-1782,1805,1811,1865,1869,1872
1879,1883,1895,1898,1899,1903-1905
1906,1908,1911,1913,1915,1920,1924,1926
1928,1930,1931,1933,1935,1956,1962
1972,2010,2016-2018,2088-2090
2091-2098
2099-2106
2107,2180,2224
Annual 1939
Annual 1942
Annual 1950
Annual 1951
Annual 1953
Annual 1954
Annual 1955
Annual 1956
Annual 1957
Annual 1958
Annual 1959
Annual 1960
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Thanks, i’ve made a new link.
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975,1314,1537,1585,1739,1805,1962,2010,2016,2017 and
Annual 1950,1956,1957,1960
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Thanks for letting me know, i’ve replaced those links.
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I’m looking for FILM FUN issues from 7 th January, 1961 to 27 th May, 1961. Are there any link to download them? Thanks.
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All i have is on the blog.
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Alguien tendra los numeros de Film Fun donde publlicaron ‘The three musketeers?, Gracias por su respuesta.
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