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I was considering a trip to Narnia when I found this periodical under a pile of others at the bottom of my wardrobe. I remember buying this item from a newsagent's in the Old Village quarter of my town back in the mid-'70s and this is the actual issue purchased back then. Unfortunately, the newsagent is no longer there, having been turned into something else a few short years ago, but I took photos of its interiors a couple or so decades back while it was still essentially much as it had been in 'my day'.
However, you're likely not interested in old and vanished newsagents, so let me get to the purpose of this post, which is to show you a publication which is now 50 years old. This was a one-off, though it was intended as the first in a series, but obviously never sold well enough to continue, alas. I wonder how many of the four comics contained within the cover were later sold individually as original '30s 'funny papers' by dishonest or unaware dealers, but it's probably a given it happened at some stage.
There might well be differences between these reprints and the originals, but one would need the latter-mentioned with which to compare to be sure, and they're not something in my possession. Anyway, enjoy yet another enterprise by late comics historian Denis Gifford, short-lived as it was, and feel free to comment if you're of a mind to.
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