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Radio Fun
Radio Fun 1958 annual
Publication information
Publisher	Amalgamated Press (1938–1959) Fleetway Publications (1959–1961)
Genre	Action/adventure, humor/comedy
Publication date	15 October 1938 - 18 February 1961
No. of issues	1167

Radio Fun was a British celebrity comics comic paper that ran from (issues dates) 15 October 1938 to 18 February 1961, when it became the first out of twelve titles to merge with Buster.

The comic strips included the uncredited work of industry regulars such as Roy Wilson and George and Reg Parlett. The format of the humorous strips was to pack in as many gags and slapstick situations as possible.

Publication history

Wonder merged with it in 1953.

The title became Radio Fun and Adventures towards the end of its run.

Radio Fun ran for 1167 issues.

Strips

The comic mainly featured comic strip versions of radio and film stars, including:

In its last few years, it ran a Superman strip abridged and reformatted from DC Comics. Other later cover strips were The Falcon and Wagon Train.

References

"Complete AP / Fleetway Comic Index," Archived 14 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine DanDare.info. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
Lew Stringer (23 December 2007). "Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: 50 Year Flashback: Annuals for Christmas 1957". Lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
Lew Stringer. "Blimey! It's another blog about comics!: Radio Fun". Lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 3 March 2014.

Sources

v t e Amalgamated Press / Fleetway / IPC / Rebellion Developments comics
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Post-War humorous comics	Buster Cheeky Weekly Cor!! 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 (stories) Battle Picture Weekly (stories) Boys' World The Champion The Comet (stories) Crisis (stories) Diceman Eagle Eagle (1982 version) (stories) Hurricane Jag Jet Judge Dredd Megazine Lion (stories) Look and Learn M.A.S.K. Ranger Revolver Roy of the Rovers Scorcher Scream! Sonic the Comic Speed Starlord Sun (stories) Supernaturals Thriller Comics Thunder Tiger (stories) Tornado Valiant (stories) Vulcan War Picture Library Wildcat
Girls' comics	Girl Girls' Crystal (stories) Jinty June (stories) Marilyn Misty Poppet Princess (stories) Princess Tina (stories) Roxy Sandie School Friend (stories) Serenade Tammy Tina Valentine
Pre-school comics	Jack and Jill Playhour
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Notable staff	Leo Baxendale Massimo Belardinelli Jesús Blasco Brian Bolland Eric Bradbury Kenneth Bulmer Sid Burgon Reg Bunn Mike Butterworth Geoff Campion Joe Colquhoun John Cooper Ted Cowan Carlos Ezquerra Gerry Finley-Day Dave Gibbons Ian Gibson Scott Goodall Alan Grant Yvonne Hutton Ian Kennedy Tom Kerr Don Lawrence Brian Lewis Steve MacManus Leonard Matthews Mike McMahon Trevor Metcalfe Pat Mills Grant Morrison Robert Nixon Kevin O'Neill José Ortiz Frank S. Pepper Ken Reid Jerry Siegel Francisco Solano López Lew Stringer Barrie Tomlinson Tom Tully John Wagner Keith Watson Mike Western
See also	Albion Egmont Toxic! Treasury of British Comics List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications

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