Sun #0001# - #462 + 2 Extras (1947 - 1952) J. B. Allen - Amalgamated Press ( Various issues)

The Sun (originally simply Sun) was comic launched on 11 November 1947 by publisher J. B. Allen, changing from weekly to fortnightly during its run. It had previously been a health magazine called Fitness and Sun. 

The publisher was taken over by the Amalgamated Press in 1949, and under the first editor Leonard Matthews it featured fewer humour strips and more adventure ones. It ran until 17 October 1959, when it was merged into Lion. Len Wenn was a later editor.

J. B. Allen, 1947 Series

Published in English (United Kingdom)  United Kingdom
Publication Dates:  1947 - 1949
Number of Issues Published:  41 (#1 - #41)
Color:
Red & Green Front Cover; Red & Green Back Cover; Red & Green Centrefold; Black & White Interior
Dimensions:  91/2"x 121/4"
Paper Stock:  Newsprint
Binding:  Loose Pages
Publishing Format:  Was ongoing series


Script:  ?  Pencils: ?   Inks:  ?  Colors:  ?   Editing:  ?

Tracking:
numbering continues with Sun Comic (Amalgamated Press), 1949 series) #42

Note:
Early issues titled (Fitness and) Sun



Amalgamated Press, 1949 Series

Published in English (United Kingdom)  United Kingdom
Publication Dates:
1949 - March 22 1952
Number of Issues Published:
122 (#42 - #163)
Publishing Format:
Was ongoing series
Publication Type:
magazine
Series Details:
Cover Gallery   Details by Issue   Series Timeline


Script:  ?  Pencils: ?   Inks:  ?  Colors:  ?   Editing:  ?

Tracking
numbering continues from Sun (J. B. Allen, 1947 series) #41
numbering continues with Sun (Amalgamated Press, 1952 series) #164

Amalgamated Press, 1952 Series

Published in English (United Kingdom)  United Kingdom

Publication Dates:  March 29,1952 - 1959
Number of Issues Published:  395 (#164 - #558)
Color:
Colour Cover; Black & White Interior; Colour Centrefold
Dimensions:
7 1/4" x 9 1/2"
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-Stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing series
Publication Type: magazine

Script, Pencils, Inks, Colors and  Editing:  
Geoff Campion, Don Lawrence, Alejandro Blasco, Harry Bishop, Reg Beaumont, 
Mike Butterworth, Hugh McNeill, John McNamara, 

Tracking
numbering continues from Sun Comic (Amalgamated Press, 1949 series) #163
Notes
Merged with Lion in 1959, when Amalgamated Press became Fleetway Publications. 
This title was called Lion and Sun (IPC Magazines Ltd, 1959 series).

Strips included:

    "Addy"

    "Ali Barber" (Frank Minnitt)

    "Battler Britton" (Geoff Campion)

    "Billy the Kid" (Geoff Campion, Don Lawrence, Alejandro Blasco, Harry Bishop)

    "Buck Jones"

    "Clip McCord, Special Agent" (Reg Bunn)

    "Deed-a-Day Danny" (Hugh McNeill)

    "Dick Turpin" (John McNamara, Mike Butterworth, Hugh McNeill, 1951-54)

    "Formula 'X'"

    "Harold Hare" (Harry Hargreaves)

    "Ivanhoe"

    "Jak of the Jaguars" (Patrick Nicolle)

    "John and Joan" (R. W. Plummer)

    "Johnny Conquest" (Gino D'Antonio)

    "Kindheart"

    "Lancelot Lake" (Hugh McNeill)

    "Lord of Sherwood" (Patrick Nicolle)

    "Max Bravo" (Mike Butterworth and Eric Parker)

    "Mike" (Eric Roberts)

    "Moko the Monk" (Robert MacGillivray)

    "Ollie" (Harry Hargreaves)

    "Patsy and Tim" (Eric Parker)

    "Robin Hood" (Reg Beaumont)

    "Roy Rogers"

    "Sherwood Outlaw" (Reg Beaumont)

    "Simon the Simple Sleuth" (Hugh McNeill)

"Sinbad the sailor"

    "Sitting Bull"

    "Sparks and Flash" (Roland Davies)

    "Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit" (Norman Ward)

    "The Swiss Family Robinson" (Bob Wilkin)

    "The Terrible Three" (Martin Clifford)

    "Voyage to Venus"

    "Wild Bill Hickok" (D. C. Eyles)

    "Young Joey" (Hugh McNeill)

Links: Sun  #0001# - #462 (Various issues) + 2 Extras

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