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| Name | Funnies Album 1954 | Published |
| Publication | Price: 4/- [0-4-0 GBP] | Pages: 112 |
| Cover | 1 page |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | The finest catch of the season! |
| Blank Page | No Title (1 page) |
| Illustration | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | ? (Illustration) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| First Line | This is a...(Swan) Book and belongs to: |
| Blank Page | No Title (1 page) |
| Credits | Funnies Album (1 page) |
| Script | Jock McCail (signed) |
| Pencils | Jock McCail (signed) |
| Inks | Jock McCail (signed) |
| Letters | Jock McCail (signed) |
| First Line | Do you really believe in men? |
| Notes | Illustration of two ghosts in a graveyard with publication details below. |
| Contents | Funnies Album 1954 (1 page) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| First Line | Contents |
| Comic Story | No Title (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Dick sees the plague and then the Great Fire of London through the eyes of a young stone mason who is then employed to help rebuild St. Paul's Cathedral. |
| Feature | The Magic Eye |
| Genre | Adventure; Fantasy |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | A slight mist clouded the coin, and, as it cleared, he could see the wild stretch of Hampstead Heath, and, looking towards London, was a youth dressed in the costume of the Seventeenth Century. |
| Comic Story | Enter Lanky Len (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Len is arrested for murder but two men free him, thinking he's a feared gunfighter they've hired to kill a man. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Script | Terry Patrick (signed) |
| Pencils | Terry Patrick (signed) |
| Inks | Terry Patrick (signed) |
| Letters | Terry Patrick (signed) |
| First Line | Yep! That’s me, Lanky Len. Reckon I’d best tell you about myself, and how I became a Texas Ranger by running into a load of trouble with the Wylie boys. |
| Comic Story | Devil-Fish Treasure (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tim and Jack are looking for treasure and are chased into a cave by a huge ray. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | We’ll make for the gap in the reef. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sam and Phil go for a picnic, but Sam is butted onto a small island by a goat and then chased around it by a dog. |
| Feature | Sam Skinny & Phil Fuller |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Pencils | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Inks | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Letters | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| First Line | Now, Sam, you two can now have a nice picnic! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Jack is hired to babysit and captures a baby snatcher while he's at it. |
| Feature | Jimmy Joy the Helpful Boy |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Pencils | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Letters | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| First Line | Can I help you today, Mr Doughboy? |
| Comic Story | Rival Speed Kings (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vic is knocked out by a rival who wants to take his place at a speed trial. He loses his memory but his girlfriend reveals his attacker's true identity. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| First Line | Ah! This looks like a piece of cake! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Dozey goes to a doctor's asking for a pair of spare boots and doesn't believe the lady who answers the door when she says the boots wouldn't fit him. |
| Feature | Dozey |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Oh, my poor feet! I’ll have to get a fresh pair of corn-cases somehow! |
| Comic Story | The Breaking of Bully Carlton (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A newcomer to the South Seas deals with a bully who's terrorizing a settlement. |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | That’s the ‘Ladybird’ in harbour I think, Mister Mate. |
| Comic Story | No Title |
| Synopsis | A man breaks an umbrella being used by a boy as a fishing rod. |
| Feature | A Fishy Story |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | This brolly makes a fine fishing rod! |
| Comic Story | No Title |
| Synopsis | Marmaduke tries to sting a statue. |
| Feature | Marmaduke Mosquito |
| Genre | Humor |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A man convinces a fishmonger that Arty's sign is unnecessary, depriving Arty of a sale. |
| Feature | Arty Laff the Artful Artist |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | I can’t sell my works of art so I’m going into the sign-writing business! |
| Comic Story | Doom from the Deep (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | A miniature planet appears in the skies and causes giant creatures to crawl out of the ocean. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense; Science Fiction |
| First Line | In late September of 1971, the midnight “watch” by a Cornish radarplane station went on smoothly. |
| Comic Story | No Title (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | McLard looks for clues up a ladder and up a rope. |
| Feature | Detective McLard of Scotland Yard |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Pencils | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Letters | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| First Line | Valuables are being taken from the Duchess of Dishwater’s house. See if you can find me some clue, the noo! |
| Comic Story | No Title (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Clem rescues Baldy from the attentions of Black Beaver. In gratitude, Baldy offers to share his gold with Clem, but Black Beaver is still on their trail. |
| Feature | Cactus Clem |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Help! |
| Comic Story | Terror in the Depths (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | Val investigates a liner, supposedly sunk by a wave according to the sole survivor. His diving partner, however, has been hired to ensure that the true nature of the sinking is never revealed. |
| Feature | Val Storm |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | You go down first, Val, Gaunt will follow in a minute or two. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sam runs to avoid a debt collector and accidentally comes across a bag of gold. |
| Feature | Sam Peeps |
| Genre | Humor; Historical |
| Script | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Pencils | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Inks | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Letters | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| First Line | This day I was pursued by the constable for money I owe! |
| Comic Story | No Title (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Everything seems to be going wrong for Sophie as she throws a bucket of water over the master, blows dirt into his face and tears his suit. |
| Feature | Sophie Suds the Chirpy Charlady |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Wally Robertson |
| Pencils | Wally Robertson |
| Inks | Wally Robertson |
| Letters | Wally Robertson |
| First Line | Thank goodness, that’s got the hall cleaned! |
| Comic Story | Graveyard of the Mighty (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Vic shoots an elephant, survives an attack by a rebel native and discovers the elephant's graveyard. |
| Genre | Adventure; Jungle |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | Vic Valiant, hunting his dinner in Africa, was charged by a huge bull elephant, with enormous tusks. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Chubb hitches a ride on a Bronchosaurus to catch Tubb and runs into a Gruntisit. |
| Feature | Chubb & Tubb |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | ’Cha! Tubb has taken all the eats! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Emily finds fault with everything in the house, but she's expecting a visitor. |
| Feature | Little Emily |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | That vase would look better with some flowers in it! That’s what they’re for! |
| Comic Story | No Title (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Old Hooky rescues a dying man from the sea who gives him a clue to buried treasure. However, another member of his crew spreads fear about a ghost haunting the treasure. |
| Feature | Adventures of Old Hooky |
| Genre | Adventure; Historical |
| Script | Bill McCail |
| Pencils | Bill McCail |
| Inks | Bill McCail |
| Letters | Bill McCail |
| First Line | A raft t’the starboard, Cap’n - an’ a dead ‘un a’board. |
| Comic Story | Peril From Space (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Skinny and Tubby find that a space ship has landed in a clearing and hideous creatures have emerged using heat ray to widen the clearing around the ship. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | Skinny Greef and Tubby Round, hit trouble in a cosmic way. |
| Comic Story | No Title (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Ah Wong's flat is blown up and, pretending that he's dead, he and Terry follow a clue to the Cobra's hideout. |
| Feature | Ah Wong |
| Genre | Detective-mystery |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | Ah Wong and Terry, feeling bored, decided to have a prowl around some of the tough districts of the city. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Romeo keeping losing the ice creams he's bought so asks for a police escort. |
| Feature | Romeo |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | I’ll go and rustle up some ices, Sugar Pie! |
| Comic Story | He Asked for It! |
| Synopsis | A man disputes the spelling of his bill. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | I want my bill, waiter! |
| Comic Story | Help! |
| Synopsis | A drowning man pulls someone who tries to help him into the water so that they both need help. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | Aid! Assistance! Will nobody save me? |
| Comic Story | Simple |
| Synopsis | A man tells a policeman that he's looking for a car park, but he's really looking for his car. |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | Oh, Constable, I’m looking for a car park! |
| Comic Story | Zeno’s Revenge (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A reporter claims to have seen a giant machine causing damage to the city but he isn't believed so he sets out to find proof. He discovers the machine was created by a scientist out for revenge for his previous imprisonment. |
| Genre | Science Fiction |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | One dark night, terror and destruction hit Daren City. |
| Comic Story | No Title (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Cyril keeps trying to sabotage Beryl. |
| Feature | Beryl the Modern Girl |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Pencils | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Inks | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| Letters | Wally Robertson (signed) |
| First Line | Take your gamp in case it rains! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Daffy paints spots on Miss Fitt's glasses while she's asleep. |
| Feature | Daffy |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | Girls - this is your new form mistress - Miss Fitt! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Rags and Tatters spot a parcel of what they think is food but which turns out to be a bomb. |
| Feature | Rags & Tatters |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Pencils | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Inks | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Letters | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| First Line | Oo, look, Rags, lunch! |
| Comic Story | No Title (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tufty wants to be good and go to the seaside but gets off to a bad start by breaking the best china. |
| Feature | Tufty |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Now, Tufty, my boy! I’m going to the sea-side next week for some fishing - and if you behave yourself and don't get into any trouble I'll take you along too! Would you like that? |
| Comic Story | Captain Atlas Solves the Mystery of the Flying Disc! (5 pages) |
| Synopsis | A man-made spacecraft full of atomic bombs has been located above the Earth and Captain Atlas is shot into space to diffuse the bombs. |
| Feature | Captain Atlas |
| Genre | Superhero |
| Script | King-Ganteaume |
| Pencils | King-Ganteaume |
| Inks | King-Ganteaume |
| Letters | King-Ganteaume |
| First Line | Hello! Professor is there anything wrong? Can I help you? |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sam's football wrecks a painter's painting and easel. |
| Feature | Soccer Sam |
| Genre | Humor |
| First Line | This is a nice field to do a little football practice in! |
| Comic Story | No Title (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pablo is offered a job if he can handle a bull that's just thrown the last occupant of the position. |
| Feature | Pablo |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | I try all those places and find-a no work nowhere! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Angel rustles up some boyfriend's for her sister so that she won't need to take her to the recital. |
| Feature | Angel |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | I’m taking Angel to an organ recital this afternoon! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Longbow tells a tall tale of being captured and tricking the natives into killing him so that he could avoid their torture. |
| Feature | Colonel Longbow |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | Adventure? My boy, it doesn’t exist today, the world is too civilised. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Claude spots some boys who've tied a money box to a dog's tail. He chases the dog but the box only contains buttons. |
| Feature | Careful Claude |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Wish I had some cash! |
| Comic Story | No Title |
| Synopsis | Chimpo steals Leo's dinner. |
| Feature | Chimpo |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | That’s my dinner! |
| Comic Story | No Title |
| Synopsis | Chirpy thinks he knows what trick Cheery is trying to play on him. |
| Feature | Cheery and Chirpy |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger |
| Pencils | Harry Banger |
| Inks | Harry Banger |
| Letters | Harry Banger |
| First Line | I know a smashing trick! |
| Comic Story | The Webbed Terror (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | A land mass drops from space and from it, monstrous spiders emerge and attack ships and planes. |
| Genre | Horror-suspense |
| Script | Jock McCail (signed) |
| Pencils | Jock McCail (signed) |
| Inks | Jock McCail (signed) |
| Letters | Jock McCail (signed) |
| First Line | One night, the Earth, already tense with the expectation of another war, shook, as if stricken by some mighty cosmic fist. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Willie is afraid his uncle is going to spank him for breaking a window. |
| Feature | Willie - the Cowboy Kid |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | You’se broken de window, yo’ bad boy! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Sammy dreams of trying to find a job as a cowboy in the wild west. |
| Feature | Sleepy Sammy |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Pencils | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Inks | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| Letters | Percy Cocking (signed) |
| First Line | Gosh! This is wizard! |
| Comic Story | No Title (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Winkle causes quite a stir with a balloon shaped like a sea monster. |
| Feature | All At Sea |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Hey, Messmate! Catch hold of this line for me! |
| Comic Story | Iron Horse Vengeance (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Pat's father is killed in an ambush aimed at robbing the train of its gold and rifles. Learning that the robbers are renegade white men, posing as Indians, Pat hurries to warn the authorities. |
| Genre | Western-frontier |
| Script | Jock McCail |
| Pencils | Jock McCail |
| Inks | Jock McCail |
| Letters | Jock McCail |
| First Line | Gosh! Pat, the line is blocked ahead, it must be a rock fall. |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Presto stops a road hog and is chased until he causes the people around him to appear to be dressed like him. |
| Feature | Presto the Magician |
| Genre | Humor; Fantasy |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Make way for your betters! |
| Comic Story | No Title (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The boys crawl into the wrong tent. |
| Feature | The Boys of St. Ben's |
| Genre | Humor |
| Script | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Pencils | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Inks | Harry Banger (signed) |
| Letters | Harry Banger (signed) |
| First Line | Stiggins of the Fifth Form told me that he and Ginger got into the circus free, yesterday! How about us trying it today? |
| Publisher advertisement | No Title (1 page) |
| Pencils | ? (Illustration) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | Readers of Boys' Fun have asked for it! |
| Notes | Promo for Boys' Fun Annual (Gerald G. Swan, 1953 series) [1]/1954. |
| Blank Page | No Title (2 pages) |
| Advertisement | Ship-Wrecked Schoolship! (1 page) |
| Pencils | ? (Illustration) |
| Letters | ?; typeset |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| First Line | The boys' yarn with a difference |
| Notes | Advertisement for Shipwrecked Schoolship (Gerald G. Swan, 1949). |
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