Playbox

Playbox was the name of two nursery comics published by Alfred Harmsworth and the Amalgamated Press.

First series

The first series was published by Harmsworth, pre-AP, beginning on 19 October 1898. It lasted until at least 1909, when Mabel Lucie Attwell first drew for it. Strips included "The Little Sparrowkins" and "Jungle Jinks", both drawn by Mabel F. Taylor. Other artists who worked for it include Julius Stafford Baker and S. J. Cash.

Second series

The second series was launched by the Amalgamated Press on 14 February 1925, as a relaunch of Jungle Jinks. It ran until 11 June 1955, after which it was merged into Jack and Jill.

Strips included:

• "Brave Joe" (T. Gibson)
• "Flips" (Freddie Adkins)
• "The Hippo Girls" (Herbert Foxwell)
• "Snowdrop's Zoo" (Arnold Warden)
• "Tuffy and his Magic Tail" (Arnold Warden)
• "Wendy" (Sidney Pride)

References

• Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987
• Complete AP/Fleetway Comic Index

External links

• Issues of Playbox scanned at Comicbookplus