PUBLICATION : The
MAGNET
DATE
:
Week Ending March 3rd 1928
Issue Number : 1046
Volume
: XXXIII (33)
Publisher
: The Amalgamated
Press, Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, E.C.4, London
Format
: Very small
type, black & white illustrations
Page height &
width :
27 x 19 cm (11 x 7½ inches) approximately
Pages
:
28 including covers numbered
Approximate Weight
: 40 grams (100 grams when
packed)
Content
: “High Jinks at
High Oaks” Long complete School Story featuring Harry Wharton & Co. and
The Rebels of the
Remove (by Frank Richards). “The Bulldog Breed” (serial),
Famous Football Clubs (Liverpool), advertisements
Condition : Moderate/poor. The staples have
rusted away, and the paper (particularly the covers) has darkened (toned)
There
is some minor edge damage, staining and ageing. The photos show the general
condition of this specific copy
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Notes of possible interest :-
The Magnet (1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683
issues) was a weekly “story
paper” featuring illustrations and text stories aimed at boys. The magazines
were extremely popular before the Second World War before declining circulation,
and wartime paper shortage, lead to the papers closure in 1940. The magazine featured the boys at a
fictional school (Greyfriars) – most notably Billy Bunter and/or Harry Wharton
and the Remove. Each issue had a complete “Long Story” usually written by
Charles Hamilton under the pen name Frank Richards .There was also a “part
story” (serial), various features and some advertisements in each issue. After
1911 the illustrations were almost entirely by Charles Chapman and Leonard
Shields.
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