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1939 series

The first ran from (issues dates) 4 March 1939 to 16 February 1963, 1251 issues, when it merged with Valiant
Valiant (comic)
Valiant was the title of a British boys adventure comics anthology which ran from 1962 to 1976. It was published by IPC Magazines and was one of their major adventure titles throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.-Publication history:...

. Magnet
The Magnet
The Magnet was a United Kingdom weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1683 issues. Each issue contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars School, a fictional public school located somewhere in Kent, and were written...

(a text-only story paper) was discontinued in 1940; but its lead character, Billy Bunter, was thereafter granted his own cartoon strip in Knockout. Comic Cuts
Comic Cuts
Comic Cuts was a British comic book. It was created by the reporter, Alfred Harmsworth through his company Amalgamated Press . It was published from 1890 to 1953, lasting 3006 issues, and in its early days inspired other publishers to produce rival comics. It's first issue was an assortment of...

merged with it in 1953. Its strips included (see also here):
  • Battler Britton
  • Blarney Bluffer
  • Billy Bunter
    Billy Bunter
    William George Bunter , is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards...

  • Davy Crockett
    Davy Crockett
    David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...

  • Firebrand the red knight
  • Hopalong Cassidy
    Hopalong Cassidy
    Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero created in 1904 by the author Clarence E. Mulford, who wrote a series of popular short stories and twenty-eight novels based on the character....

  • Jimmy Silver
  • Johnnie Wingco - master pilot
  • Our Ernie
  • Sexton Blake
    Sexton Blake
    Sexton Blake is a fictional detective who appeared in many British comic strips and novels throughout the 20th century. He was described by Professor Jeffrey Richards on the BBC in The Radio Detectives in 2003 as "the poor man's Sherlock Holmes"...

  • Sinbad Simms
  • Space Family Rollinson (see French Wikipedia article)
  • Sporty
    Sporty
    Sporty may refer to:*Sportsmanship*Casual clothing suitable for sport, or clothing sportingly fashionable or stylish.*Wig Wam, a band with member Sporty on drums.*Melanie Chisholm, "Sporty Spice" of the Spice Girls music group....

  • Stonehenge Kit (later Spaceage Kit)
  • Thunderbolt Jackson

1971 series

The second ran from (issues dates) 12 June 1971 to 23 June 1973, when it merged with Whizzer and Chips
Whizzer and Chips
Whizzer and Chips was a British comic magazine that ran from 18 October 1969 to 27 October 1990, when it merged with the comic Buster. As with most comics of the time, Whizzer and Chips was dated one week ahead....

. Its strips included:
  • Beat Your Neighbour (comic strip)
    Beat Your Neighbour (comic strip)
    Beat Your Neighbour was a British comic strip which appeared in Knockout in September 1971 and also in Whizzer and Chips.The strip centred around two families which lived next door to each other. Although the introductory title picture shows them arguing, the two families often tried to be...

  • Boney
    Boney
    Boney is a slang term for someone who is skinny, or lacks fat. It also has several other uses:*"Boney" was often what the British called Napoleon Bonaparte, it being both short and displaying a certain lack of respect...

  • Booter
  • Dead Eye Dick
  • Fuss Pot
    Fuss Pot
    Fuss Pot was originally a comic strip in the UK comic Knockout. It made its first appearance in Issue 1, dated 12 June 1971. The strip was about a girl with a pointy nose of the same name, who fussed about everything and everyone in her path...

  • Joker
    Joker (comics)
    The Joker is a fictional character, a comic book supervillain published by DC Comics. He is the archenemy of Batman, having been directly responsible for numerous tragedies in Batman's life, including the paralysis of Barbara Gordon and the death of Jason Todd, the second Robin...

  • Pete's Pockets
  • Sammy Shrink
  • Stinker
    Stinker
    Stinker may refer to one of the following:*Gollum, a fictional character invented by J.R.R. Tolkien*Southern Giant Petrel, a seabird of the southern oceans...

  • The Group
    The Group
    The Group may refer to:*The Group , by Mary McCarthy*The Group , by Sidney Lumet, based on the book*The Group , a group of British poets of the late 1950s and early 1960s...

  • The Haunted Wood
  • The Super Seven
  • The Toffs and the Toughs
  • Thunderball
  • Wanda Wheels
  • Whistler
  • Windy
    Windy
    "Windy" is a pop music song written by Ruthann Friedman and recorded by The Association. Released in 1967, the song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of that year. Later in 1967, an instrumental version by jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery became his biggest Hot 100 hit when it peaked at...



Second run: 106 Issues.
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