British Update: Some Fun Now! Film Fun 1951-1953 (and a stray 1961)
*TV & Film Related Comics: Launched in 1920, Film Fun, devoted to the then relatively new mass medium of the cinema, had a very respectable run until 1962, when it ‘tripped and fell’ into the upstart Buster. We have 30+ issues new in from the years 1951 to 1953, when Laurel & Hardy ruled the roost on the front cover (in that strange hybrid realm shared with the Dandy’s Desperate Dan, where they talked like Americans but paid in pounds, shillings and pence!), backed up by other big screen funsters such as George Formby, Old Mother Riley, Joe E. Brown and Abbott and Costello, plus a selection of (mostly Western) adventure strips loosely adapted from B-movies. Also a random issue from 1961, the series’ penultimate year, where Donald Duck and Goofy have joined the line-up!