Merry and Bright

Merry and Bright was a weekly paper launched on 22 October 1910 by Amalgamated Press. It was editor was Fred Cordwell. It incorporated The Favourite Comic on 31 March 1917, and continued until 19 January 1935 as Merry and Bright the Favourite Comic, before it was merged into Butterfly. It consisted mainly of text stories but also contained comic material.

Strips included:

• "Beyond the Clouds" (Stephen Chapman)
• "Camouflage Claude" (Freddie Crompton)
• "Curly Kelly" (G. M. Payne)
• "Flossie and Fluffie" (Alex Akerbladh)
• "Little Tich" (Alex Akerbladh)
• "Merry and Bright" (Roy Wilson)
• "Mustava Bunn" (Percy Cocking)
• "Nelson Twigg" (Roy Wilson)
• "Raggs Rents" (Julius Stafford Baker
• "Robin Hood" (Reg Parlett)
• "The Sheriff of Sherbet City" (Reg Parlett)
• "The Shirkwork Brothers" (Tom Radford)
• "The 'Stonishing Stunts of Ernie Mayne" (Reg Carter)
• "Tom Smart" (Tom Wilkinson)
• "Tomba the Jungle Boy" (Vincent S. Daniel)
• "Toppy" (Roy Wilson)

References

• Denis Gifford, Enclycopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987
• Merry and Bright at 26Pigs
• Merry and Bright at BritishComics.com
• Complete AP/Fleetway Comic Index