Film Fun

Film Fun

"Film Fun" was a British comic book that ran from (issues dates) 17 January 1920 to 15 September 1962, when it merged with Buster, a total of 2225 issues. There were also annuals in the forties and fifties. It had been renamed "Film Fun Thrills" in 1959. As the title suggests, the comic mainly featured comic strip versions of people from films from the 1920s to the 1960s, including:

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" in 1953 and "Top Spot" in 1960. In 1962, sales of "Film Fun" dropped below 125,000 a week and IPC put what little was worth anything into a new comic called "Buster".

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


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