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Girls' Crystal
''Girls' Crystal'' was a British weekly story paper and then a comic book published by Amalgamated Press (AP) that ran from 1935 to 1963. Along with ''School Friend'' and ''Girl'', it was one of the first British girls' comics. Publication history The publication launched on 28 October 1935 as ''The Crystal'', a play off the popular AP boys' story paper ''The Gem''. With issue #10, the publication changed title to ''The Girls' Crystal''."The Girls' Crystal," Friardale Website. Retrieved Mar. 15, 2021. In 1940, the fellow AP story paper '''' merged into ''Girls' Crystal'' (ironically, ''The Schoolgirl'' was a continuation of the story paper '' |
Reg Eves
Reginald Thompson Eves (12 December 1892 – 1972) was a British editor and writer of comics and story papers for the Amalgamated Press. He joined the company in 1908,Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 55 and during the First World War was assistant editor, under editor John Nix Pentelow, of the boys' story papers ''The Magnet'' and ''The Gem'',Steve HollandThe Men Behind Girls' Fiction Collecting Books and Magazines, 2001 also writing many of the stories. He was impressed by the letters he received from female readers of ''The Magnet'', and after the war, when AP were seeking to expand into new markets, he launched the girls' story paper ''School Friend'' in 1919, becoming its first editor. However, he primarily used the male writers he was familiar with from the boys' papers, like Charles Hamilton. In the 1920s he took charge of a group of papers, including '' The Champion'', '' The Rocket'' and '' The Trium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schoolgirls' Own
The ''Schoolgirls' Own'' was a British weekly story paper aimed at girls. Published by , it was launched in February 1921 and ran for 798 issues until May 1936, when it was merged with a sister publication. The main feature centred on the Morcove School, a "high class" girls' boarding school for the daughters of the aristocratic and the rich, although the school did also accept some pupils from working-class backgrounds. Cookery and needlework were also featured regularly, as it was at that time "considered vital that young girls knew how to cook and sew." All the Morcove stories were by Horace Phillips, using the pen name of "Marjorie Stanton." The Friardale Website described ''Schoolgirls' Own'' thusly: In 1936 ''Schoolgirls' Own'' was merged into its sister story paper ''The Schoolgirl'' and the Morcove stories moved to ''The Schoolgirl'' as the backup feature for two years before being quietly dropped. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazines Established In 1935
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a ''journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus '' Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the '' Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; ''The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Magazines Published In The United Kingdom
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Defunct British Comics
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British Comics Titles
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Disestablishments In The United Kingdom
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A January 1963 lunar eclipse, total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the January 1963 lunar eclipse, penumbral lunar eclipse and the Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963, annular solar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1935 Establishments In The United Kingdom
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibiotic, is published in a series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June (comics)
''June'' was a weekly British girls' comic published from 18 March 1961 to 15 June 1974 by Fleetway Publications, when it merged into the fellow Fleetway title ''Tammy (comics), Tammy'' (along the way, ''June'' absorbed three other titles). ''June'' featured a mix of text Serial (literature), serials (with spot illustrations) and comic strips. The problem page was called ''Angela Replies...'' (written by Angela Barrie) and the Comic book letter column, letter column was called ''Pick of the Post'' and then later ''Tell Us about It!''. By the early 1970s, the popular fashion doll Sindy appeared in ''June'' in ''Sindy's Scene: Her Diary and Club Page'' and the strip ''Sindy and Her Friends'', drawn by Phil Townsend. Publication history ''June'' launched 18 March 1961. The character of June herself, a blond schoolgirl with a headband, often appeared on the cover, sometimes with her dog Jiffy. After 174 issues, ''June'' absorbed the short-lived title ''Poppet'' with the issue of 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess (comics)
''Princess'' was a weekly British magazine for girls, published from 30 January 1960 to 16 September 1967 by Fleetway Publications. The publication featured a mix of articles, features, and comic strips. (About one-quarter of each issue was comics.) True to its name, ''Princess'' featured a serial called ''Famous Royal Daughters'' by Marjorie Coryn and illustrated by John Millar Watt. Writers whose work was abridged in ''Princess'' included Joan Aiken, John Wyndham, Enid Blyton, Sylvia Thorpe, J. R. R. Tolkien, P. L. Travers, T. H. White, and Noel Streatfeild. Other contributors to ''Princess'' included David Attenborough, Scott Goodall, Pat Smythe, H. M. Brock, and Tom Kerr. Covers of ''Princess'' always featured a single photograph or illustration, never a comics story. A second ''Princess'' series was published by IPC Magazines in 1983–1984. Early issues featured Diana, Princess of Wales, on the cover. Publication history 1960-1967 series ''Princess'' launched 30 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mystery Of Banshee Towers
''The Mystery of Banshee Towers'' by Enid Blyton is the last children's novel in a series of fifteen known collectively as '' The Five Find-Outers and Dog''. The series ran for eighteen years, from 1943 to this one, published in 1961.Reprinted by London, Egmont in 2003 Plot summary During a school holiday, the children are told by their parents to spend their time visiting sites in the surrounding countryside, rather than searching for mysteries in the village. The children visit an old stately home, Banshee Towers, which is exhibiting famous sea paintings, which Ern and Bets love. The Towers are reputedly haunted and wailing noises are driving visitors away. On a subsequent visit, Ern spots that a small boat he admired on the painting is missing. On pointing this out to the owner, the children unwittingly place themselves in danger. After investigating, they discover the owner of the Towers has been conspiring with an art forger and a second member of staff to replace the colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Secret Seven
The Secret Seven or Secret Seven Society is a fictional group of child detectives created by Enid Blyton and based on the publisher’s children. They appear in one of several adolescent detective series which Blyton wrote. The Secret Seven consists of Peter (the society's head), Janet (Peter's sister), Pam, Barbara, Jack, Colin and George. Jack's sister Susie and her best friend Binkie make occasional appearances in the books; they hate the Secret Seven and delight in playing tricks designed to humiliate them, although this is partly fuelled by their almost obsessive desire to belong to the society. Unlike most other Blyton series, this one takes place during the school term time because the characters go to day schools. Continuing Blyton's series, Pamela Butchart wrote two new adventures in the series, adding elements of horror. Origins The names Secret Seven and Famous Five had already been used by the author Charles Hamilton, under the pen-name Frank Richards, in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
