Film Fun

Film Fun
Film Fun annual 1947
Publication information
Publisher	Amalgamated Press Fleetway Publications
Schedule	Weekly
Genre	Action/adventure Humor/comedy

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.^[1]

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.

Eddie the Happy Editor

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.

Mergers

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.^[2]^[3] In 1962, sales of Film Fun dropped below 125,000 a week, prompting IPC to merge the comic with Buster.

Gallery

Still with Betty Compson for the American film The Green Temptation (1922), page 17 of the April 1922 Film Fun

References

↑ "The Comic Book Price Guide For Great Britain - FILM FUN". Comicpriceguide.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
↑ Lew Stringer (2011-01-30). "Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: Top Spot - The 'Clint' of 1958?". Lewstringer.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
↑ "Loading". Dandare.info. Retrieved 2014-03-03.

Amalgamated Press/Fleetway/IPC comics

Comic strips	The 12½p Buytonic Boy Ace Trucking Co. Beat Your Neighbour Bessie Bunter Billy Bunter Billy's Boots Birdman and Chicken Bobby's Ghoul Bookworm The Bumpkin Billionaires Buster Capp Captain Hurricane Charley's War Charlie Peace Cliff Hanger Dan Dare Doomlord Ernie Faceache Fishboy Fuss Pot Ginger's Tum Grimly Feendish Harlem Heroes Hot Shot Hamish and Mighty Mouse The House of Dolmann Ivor Lott and Tony Broke Jet-Ace Logan Joe Soap Joker Judge Dredd Junior Rotter Kid Chameleon Lazy Bones The Leopard from Lime Street Luck of the Legion Master Mind Memory Banks Mustapha Million Odd Ball Richie Wraggs Rob Riley Robot Archie Rogan Gosh Roy of the Rovers School Belle Sexton Blake Sid's Snake Skid Kidd Spider Steel Claw Store Wars The Suicide Six Sweeny Toddler Sweet Tooth Tharg the Mighty Tomboy Tom Thug Tricky Dicky Watch Out Beagle's About Whacky Wonder Wellies X-Ray Specs

Pre-War humorous comics	Comic Cuts Film Fun Film Picture Stories Funny Wonder Illustrated Chips Kinema Comic Knockout Picture Fun Radio Fun Top Spot

Post-War humorous comics	The Big One Buster Cheeky Weekly Cor!! Giggle Jackpot Knockout Krazy Monster Fun Nipper Oink! School Fun Shiver and Shake Whizzer and Chips Whoopee! Wow!

Power comics	Wham! Smash! Pow! Fantastic Terrific

Adventure comics	2000 AD Action Battle Picture Weekly Boys' World The Comet Crisis Dice Man Eagle Jag Jet Judge Dredd Megazine Lion Look and Learn M.A.S.K. Ranger Revolver Roy of the Rovers Scorcher Scream! Sonic the Comic Starlord Thriller Comics Tiger Tornado Valiant Vulcan War Picture Library

Girls comics	Girl Lindy Jinty Misty Penny Tammy

Pre-school comics	Jack and Jill Playhour

Notable artists	Leo Baxendale Massimo Belardinelli Eric Bradbury Sid Burgon Trevor Metcalfe Robert Nixon Lew Stringer Ken Reid

See also	Albion Egmont Toxic List of Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications

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