This was the last issue of The Champion weekly story paper which had begun its long run in January 1922. After closing it, the publishers had only comics left to offer British (and British Empire) boys, although they had put out story papers for successive generations of boys since the 1890s. The story papers, trashy though some of the content may have been, fired boys' imaginations; encouraged them to create from text alone pictures in their own minds; widened their vocabularies; incidentally improved their spelling; and showed them how the written word could be used to express oneself on just about anything. But the publishers' "good news" in March 1955 was that boys should switch allegiance to the Tiger, where picture strips predominated and stories, shorter than the Champion's, were in the minority. Many decided the Tiger comic, read in minutes, was a poor substitute for a story paper at the same price that had given hours of entertainment. Probably some switched to the Rover, the Wizard, the Hotspur, and Adventure. These rival story papers, from a publisher based in Dundee, Scotland, continued to give pleasure for several more years before they, too, were replaced by adventure comics. Before the end of the century, even these comics were wiped out.
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