Butterfly

Issue 931, 1935

Butterfly was a weekly comic published by Amalgamated Press. It was launched in September 1904 as a relaunch of the Comic Home Journal. It absorbed Firefly in 1917 and Merry and Bright in 1925, and was cancelled in 1940 when it merged with Tip Top. Amongst its staff was Peter O'Donnell, who went on to create "Modesty Blaise".

Strips included...

• "Bertie and Babs" (Ray Bailey)
• "Bobby and the Woolly Bears"
• "The Boy Rancher", (Stephen Chapman)
• "Buffalo Bill" (Ned Buntline, G. William Backhouse)
• "Call o'the West" (Hilda Boswell)
• "Forgotten City" (Ray Bailey)
• "Jolly Jack Robinson" (Bertie Brown)
• "The Lost Joss" (Ray Bailey)
• "Mick and Molly" (Roy Wilson)
• "Old London Laughing" (Louis Briault)
• "Peggy the Pretty Police Patrol" (Ray Bailey)
• "The Pentwins" (Ray Bailey)
• "Portland Bill"/"Butterfly Bill" (G. M. Payne)
• "Roy Keen" (G. M. Wilson)
• "Secrets of Sunken Forest" (Stephen Chapman)
• "Smiler and Smudge" (Bertie Brown)
• "Spotsem and Getsem" (Cyril Price)
• "Steve and Stumpy" (Roy Wilson)
• "Steve Sticket" (Harry Banger)
• "Teddy and his Wonderful Toys" (Harry O'Neill)
• "Wot-Ho" (Ray Bailey)

References

• Butterfly at BritishComics.com