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The reason why the story papers were called by that name was that they contained all-text stories, like a novel, instead of using the strip-cartoon format. They increased in popularity during the 19th century because, prior to that, public education dud not exist: as school age children learned to read and write, from the early 19th century, they became able to read such publications. Actually, the reason why the story papers came to an end in the Second World War was the simple fact that a paper shortage, caused by the war in the Atlantic, prevented Britain from importing timber from Canada, so the limited home grown supplies were needed for more urgent purposes, and children’s comics had to go out of business when they could no longer obtain the paper needed to print the weekly issues.
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The reason why story papers did not manage to re-establish themselves after World War 2 was that the new format of comics, which published strip cartoon style stories, were more popular than all-text comics. This was natural and inevitable: give a small child a choice between reading or looking at pictures, and what outcome would you expect? Strip cartoons replaced a thousand words with a single picture, so soared in popularity.
Eventually, in the 1970s, the new craze among children became moving pictures, i.e. television, which from 1960 onwards had gradually killed off the comics. When colour tv was introduced in Britain in 1969, that signed the death blow for children’s comics, and by 1975 they had almost all gone out of business.
A few niche comics survived, including those aimed at very young children, but the older children all turned instead to television. Hardly any comics aimed at children aged over ten years old survived by the mid 1970s, it was not just the handful of surviving story papers which went out of business.
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hi–i am researching story papers or and uk pulps with edgar rice burroughs..recently got tv21 1-88 and new series 27,30-54 with tarzan and trying to find out if i am missing any w/tarzan–i think i can find this out but interested in the boys papers–cheers
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Wot no Adventure, Hotspur, Rover and Wizard?
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The Scottish Publisher doesn’t like material appearing online, sadly.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/t4e6z9t77kj9qzd/Eve%2527s_Own_831_1939-09-30.cbz/file
Eve’s Own, final issue.
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Thank you very much.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/djc4o7z1ttx6i6r/GLx7.zip/file
7 Glamour story paper issues. Not at all happy with the quality of sone pages (interiors were done with my phone) so they will be rescanned at some point, but here they are as it might be a while.
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Thank you very much.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/wz722i5lwpgmb5o/Fun_and_Fiction_1913-02-15_071.cbz/file
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Thank you very much.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/b9gzd0qh6g2a49d/The_Home_Companion_1908-10-17_0609_%2528Gorgon776%2529.cbr/file
Webfind, credit to Gorgon776 for the scans. In the vein of Forget-Me-Not.
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Nope, we already have it, my bad, link squished.
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That can happen with so many issues en series to keep an eye on, i’ve had it numerous times.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/gpfajkeah1qlo4j/Poppy%2527s_Paper_1930-12-20_359.cbz/file
Rescan
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Thank you very much.
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