| Additional Information |
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| Publication | 17 May 1890 | Price: 1/2 d [0-0-0.5 GBP] | Pages: 25 | Frequency: weekly |
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| Cover | The Strong Man Fraud; or, The 1000-LB. Air-Ball |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On front cover. |
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| Cartoon | The Latest Botanical Discovery |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On front cover. |
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| Cartoon | The Joys of the Suburbanite |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On front cover. |
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| Cartoon | By Hook and Crook |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On front cover. |
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| Cartoon | Why Timpkins is Going to Move Again |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On front cover. |
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| Text Article | The Editor Talks to His New Friends (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside front cover.
Text page starting with a editorial introduction to the comic paper (title used for this sequence). Short items includes five untitled brief humour text vignettes, one limerick poem, and two humour short poems.
Brief story articles include, "Landlord and Lawyer," "Sir Walter and the Bores; Something Like Wealth," "Stories Told by a Policemen," "Rough on the Cats," ""Great Secret" Prize Competition," and "Keeping Company." |
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| Text Story | Confessions of a Ticket-of-Leave Man |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction; Crime |
| Notes | Subtitled, "My Experiences of Ten Years' Penal Servitude."
Story has three chapters over 2 1/2 columns. Listed as "Author's Copyright" and "To be continued." |
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| Text Article | A Child's Lucky Find |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Over 1 1/2 columns includes 12 factoid and trivia vignettes, and four titled articles; "A Child's Lucky Find" (of which this sequence is named), "Some Curious Jugs," "Big Feet of a Great Man," and "The Oddest of All." |
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| Text Story | Jokes |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | A column of short jokes. |
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| Cartoon | They Each Had One |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | The Hammock |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | A Brillant Conception |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | The Cold, Hard, Unmistakable Hint |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This cartoon straddles the center-spread between pages 4 and 5. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This cartoon straddles the center-spread between pages 4 and 5. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | This cartoon straddles the center-spread between pages 4 and 5. |
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| Cartoon | His Proposals |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Cartoon | Last Easter Monday |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
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| Text Story | Smiles |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Humourous vignette stories. |
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| Text Story | Sir Frederick Leighton "Rejected" (1 page) |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Text page with several short humour stories. Short stories titled, "Sir Frederick Leighton "Rejected" (first story on the page and title of this sequence, "Adventure in a Diving Bell," "How to Do It," "Mrs. "Dizzy"," Playful Twins," ""Hammering" on the Stock Exchange," "Outwitting the Lunatic," "The Lucky Duke," and "John Bright and the Prison." There are also nine untitled vignette humour stories on this page. |
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| Publisher advertisement | £100 A Year for Life! |
| Credits | Script:? (promo copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Promotion advertisement for the publication "Answers." |
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| Text Story | A Dog on the Stage |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Five humouous stories titled, "A Dog on the Stage" (used as the title for this sequence), "Pleasant," "He Carried the Cave in a Parcel," "Broken Moments," and "Interviewing the Pope." Also included are seven untitled humourous vignette stories. |
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| Text Article | Tiny Chips |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
A nearly full column of short factoids. |
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| Advertisement | Sewing Machines Given Away! |
| Credits | Script:? (ad copy) | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | Inside back cover.
Advertisement for J. Theobald & Co.'s products including a coupon that, if clipped and redeemed within 28 days of this comic's date would allow the person to buy a sewing machine for 6 schillings and sixpence. |
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| Cartoon | Parental Authority |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Cartoon | Consolatory |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Cartoon | How She Did It |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Cartoon | Trials of the Man Who Smokes |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Illustration | My Sweetheart |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Notes | On back cover.
A small portrait of what is presumed to be the cartoonist's girlfriend or wife. |
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| Cartoon | It Occasionally Fails to Work |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | On back cover. |
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