Publication Dates: 1950 – 1965
Number of Issues Published: 766 (#1 – #766)
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
The School Friend was published by Amalgamated Press as a story paper for girls from 1919 to 1929, when it was renamed The Schoolgirl, and continued until 1940.
School Friend was revived as a comic in 1950, publishing a mixture of comic strips and prose stories, and was published by AP, then Fleetway and IPC.. It ran until 1965, when it was merged into June, becoming June & School Friend. The Editor of June & School Friend was Mavis Miller. Art Editor: Colin Parker. Sub-editors: Terence Magee, Jackie Davies. Art Assistants: Ken “Sherry” Sherrington, Roger Prickett
Art Agencies used were run by Dick and Jack Wall; Temple Art Agency by Danny and Pat Kelleher; Bardon Art Associates by Barry Coker; Creaciones Ilustradas by Luis Llorente.
Series included:
“Babs and the Family”
“Bessie Bunter” (Billy Bunter’s sister), written by Jim Storrie
“Cherry and the Children”, drawn by John Armstrong
“Dilly Dreem”
“Jill Crusoe”, written by Johnny Johnson and drawn by Roland Davies
“Kim – Dog of Mystery”
“Lucky’s Living Doll” (written by Frank Redpath and drawn by Robert MacGillivray)
“My Friend Sara”
“Scamp” (Harry Hargreaves)
“The Silent Three”, written by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, drawn by Evelyn Flinders
“The Strangest Stories Ever Told”, a pipe-smoking teller of spooky stories (various writers such as Scott Goodall, Len Wenn, Terence Magee and various artists)
“Terry Brent”, drawn by C. L. Doughty
“Sindy”, the famous toy doll, written by Cecil Graveney
There was also a School Friend Picture Library, published from 1962 to 1965, when it became June and School Friend Picture Library, and then June and School Friend and Princess Picture Library in 1966.
A companion paper was Lindy, published in 1975 and folding 6 months later. The Editor was Norman Worker. One of the stories was “Hard Days For Hilda”, written by Terence Magee.
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UPDATE 19-02-2018
152,159
Annual 1962 (large file)
Annual 1966 (large file)
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UPDATE 01-10-2016
111,116,121,126,129,132,134,136,139
141,143,148,177,182,184,186
187,210,218,231,232
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UPDATE 01-07-2015
150
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144,176,188,190,204,209,215,216
217,219,221,222,224,226,227,230
243,244,245,248,249,252,254
260,273,470,471,472,474, Annual 1959
Issues 1-5 of School Friend from 1919
They were in PDF format so I’ve converted them to .CBR
http://www.mediafire.com/file/kdb0taevav48w8j/School_Friend_Comic__1-5.7z
Lee
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Thanks for these and for the converting.
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Hello to alll
No SchoolFriends from the sixties ?
😉
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I am afraid not, it ends in 1959 in my archive, but i will be on the look out for 60’s issues.
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Thank you
In fact, I need some pages of “my school friend Sara”
Mille mercis (as we say in France)
😉
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Getting an error message when trying to download the last group of issues, the one with the 1959 annual). Tried yesterday and today.
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Thanks, i will replace all adrive links with other links this weekend.
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