Film Fun was a British comic book

Comic book

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 that ran from (issues dates) 17 January 1920 to 15 September 1962, when it merged with Buster

Buster (comic)

Buster was a long-running British comic which carried a mixture of humour and adventure strips, although the former increasingly replaced the latter...

, a total of 2225 issues. There were also annuals in the forties and fifties. It had been renamed Film Fun and Thrills in 1959. As the title suggests, the comic mainly featured comic strip

Comic strip

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 versions of people from film

Film

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s from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Eddie the Happy Editor

Frederick George Cordwell was better known to Film Fun fans as Eddie the Happy Editor. Cordwell was at his job till when he died in 1949, aged 62 at Richmond, Surrey. Cordwell was a tireless worker who wrote many scripts for the strips as well as the stories in Film Fun and was responsible for the huge plates of sausages and mash, the giant Xmas puddings, pies and such the characters received from grateful beneficiaries of their efforts. Cordwell even made it into the stories himself, meeting Laurel and Hardy a number of times, Joe E Brown, Wheeler and Woolsey, etc.

A sometimes rocky road

Picture Fun merged with Film Fun soon after its launch in 1920, followed by Kinema Comic in 1932, Film Picture Stories in 1935, Illustrated Chips

Illustrated Chips

Illustrated Chips was a British comic published between 26 July 1890 and 12 September 1953. It was produced by Alfred Harmsworth and his Amalgamated Press.After a brief initial run of six issues, Illustrated Chips was relaunched and ran for 2,997 issues...

in 1953 and Top Spot in 1960. In 1962, sales of Film Fun dropped below 125,000 a week and IPC

IPC Media

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 put what little was worth anything into a new comic called Buster.

Note:Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

made it to the cover of the first issue of Film Fun, but not under his own name but a screen name; "Winkle".