Issue 142, 1937
Sparkler was a weekly comic published by Amalgamated Press, launched on 20 October 1934 as a relaunch of My Favourite.[1] It was merged into Crackers on 5 August 1939.
It featured the work of artists such as Jack Greenall, Ray Bailey and Arthur Martin.[2][3]
Bailey contributed a strip entitled "The Chimps", reportedly the first strip for a British comic in which the artist was credited,[4] and "Hopeful Horice".[5] Sparkler also reprinted the Canadian comic strip Robin Hood and Company.[2]
Other strips include:
- "Beric the Briton" (John McCail)
- "Buster, Linda and Pip" (Roy Wilson)
- "The Crew of the Ocean Wave" (Percy Cocking)
- "Far Away From Home" (Vincent S. Daniel)
- "Freddie Flipp and Uncle Bunkle" (Bertie Brown)
- "Good Knight Gilbert" (Roy Wilson)
- "Lieutenant Daring and Jolly Roger" (Roy Wilson)
- "Muffin and Crumpet" (reprint of "Merry and Bright", from Merry and Bright, by Roy Wilson)
- "The Mystery of Study 13" (H. M. Brock)
- "Robin Hood" (Roy Wilson)
- "Starr of the Silver Screen" (Hilda Boswell)
- "Strongheart the Magnificent" (G. W. Backhouse)
- "Swift Shaw" (R. J. McDonald)
- "Wonderwings" (Stephen Chapman)
- "Wurzel Farm" (Bert Hill)
References[]
- ↑ Alan Clark, "It's So Hot Even the Chickens Are Laying Boiled Eggs!", The Sloperian no. 1, 2012
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Adcock, Robin Hood and Company, Punch in Canada, 2 February 2009
- ↑ The Golden Age of AP Comics
- ↑ The Chimps at Comic Book Gorillarama
- ↑ Ray Bailey at Lambiek Comiclopedia