Exhibit G1
The Rainbow. London: Amalgamated Press. Vol. 7, no. 338. 31 July 1920.
Inside this comic, on page 11: “Little Nell. A Picture Story For All”, a “realistic” strip for young children more
Exhibit G2
Tiger Tim’s Weekly. London: Amalgamated Press. Vol. 2, no. 71. 4 June 1921.
Inside this comic, on page 11: “Molly. A Story of a Lonely Little Girl”, a not overly dramatic domestic strip more
Exhibit G3
Little Sparks. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 15 (new series). 28 August 1920.
Inside this comic, on page 3: “Tiny Tim. The Adventures of a Brave Little Orphan Boy Who Is All Alone in The World”, more
Exhibit G4
Little Sparks. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 19 (new series). 25 September 1920.
Designed as a pendant to “Tiny Tim” (see G3) and running concurrently, but with evident girl reader orientation, more
Exhibit G5
Puck. London: Amalgamated Press. No.1094. 11 July 1925.
Rob the Rover started off on his adventures in 1920 as a castaway on a desert island more
Exhibit G6
Puck. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1397. 9 May 1931.
By the early thirties, the twelve panels of “Rob the Rover” have been reduced to nine, more
Exhibit G7
Puck. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1723. 7 August 1937.
Now an attractive black-and-red strip (twelve panels, each with a six-line caption and very few speech balloons), more
Exhibit G8
Puck. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1491. 25 February 1933.
The pirate strip “Orphans of the Sea” has been running since 1930 more
Exhibit G9
Puck. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1723. 7 August 1937.
In the late 1930s, many Amalgamated Press comics had a humorous cover drawn by their top artist, Roy Wilson more
Exhibit G10
Larks. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 457. 25 July 1936.
The knockabout comics (see section F) also included a page or two of adventure strips more
Exhibit G11
Funny Wonder. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1111. 13 July 1935.
An adventure strip by George Heath, entitled “The Sacred Eye of Satpura”, ending on 12 December 1935 more
Exhibit G12
Funny Wonder. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1133. 14 December 1935.
Beginning in the Christmas double number, 7 December 1935, George Heath’s adventure strip “A Fortune in the Desert” more
Exhibit G13
Butterfly. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 1010. 15 August 1922.
Another back-page adventure serial, “Danger Range” features cowboys Lobo Long and Lumpy Smith more
Exhibit G14
The Joker. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 429. 18 January 1936.
The title “Chang the Yellow Pirate” unsubtly reflects the much-mined Yellow Peril topic in popular fiction of the era more
Exhibit G15
Comic Cuts. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 2450. 1 May 1937.
The bound volume of Comic Cuts from which the above image is taken has three back-page detective thrillers more
Exhibit G16
Comic Cuts. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 2465. 14 August 1937.
Following straight on from the Kenton Steel thrillers (see G15) comes a western, “Outlaw’s Gold” more
Exhibit G17
Comic Cuts. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 2475. 23 October 1937.
At this point, Comic Cuts was running four standard-fare letterpress thrillers: “Rover Joe” (Wild West) more
Exhibit G18
Crackers. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 451. 9 October 1937.
Cover-page strip “The Adventures of Bob and Betty Britten” by Jack Pamby. Further adventure strips running in this issue more
Exhibit G19
Sparkler. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 150. 28 August 1937.
Roy Wilson may have provided the masthead and the front-cover jollities, and yet inside the covers this is clearly an adventure-comic-cum-story-paper more
Exhibit G20
Jingles. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 207. 25 December 1937.
While the cover page remains a dense, detailed, comic strip with four-line captions more
Exhibit G21
Tip Top. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 162. 22 May 1937.
At the beginning of its series run in 1935, “The Adventures of Jerry, Jenny and Joe” was a facetious adventure strip more
Exhibit G22
Mickey Mouse Weekly. London: Odhams Press. Vol. 1, no. 42. 21 November 1936.
In comparison with other British comics in the 1930s, this set displays an unusual and attractive use of colour more
Exhibit G23
Mickey Mouse Weekly. London: Odhams Press. Vol. 2, no. 66. 8 May 1937.
An old adventure fiction theme, the search for a lost city housing fabulous wealth, recurs in “The City of Jewels” more
Exhibit G24
Happy Days. London: Amalgamated Press. No. 23. 11 March 1939.
Walter Booth is the major comics artist in this section, and here we have the first instalment of his full-colour adventure strip “The Pirate’s Secret” more
