British Update: Fun, Fun, Fun! Radio Fun – More than 100 issues 1948-1953, including Coronation number and Free Gift Farrago
*TV & Film Related Comics: The long-running series Radio Fun has been extensively refreshed with new numbers ranging from 1948’s #520 to 1953’s #764, the latter a special issue celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation. There are also two consecutive Free Gift issues, #753 and #754, each proffering a ‘Bumper Album of Radio and TV Stars’ – a handful of which we’re just about old enough to have heard of here at 30th C! The comics are FA with FA free gifts (primary drawback being damage from staple rust), so bargainaceous for their vintage. Stars featured in their own comic strips during this run include Petula Clark – Radio’s Merry Mimic, allegedly – Arthur Askey, Wilfred Pickles, Jewel & Warris, Issy Bonn, Archie Andrews (not the Riverdale one), Norman Wisdom and token adventure strip ‘The Falcon’, who began his long career as a private detective in plain clothes, but by the mid-1950s had mutated into a bona-fide super-hero, mask, tights, flying device and all! Approx 100 issues in this update, mid-to-low grades but all complete slices of media nostalgia!