Having grown up in the USA I never saw a British Annual until I was an adult. We had nothing like them in the US. What strikes me about these Puck Annuals (aside from a generally high quality of artwork) is that the 1921 Annual is almost indistinguishable from the 1937 volume. Even the 20s-style biplane in the '37 issue would have fit right into the Annual from 16 years earlier. I swear that if it hadn't have been for the planes both Annuals wouldn't have seemed out of place in 1907.
By Aldridge Prior
Yeah, Amalgamated Press were about the only British comic publisher large enough to weather World War I. So until DC Thomson entered comics in 1937 they had as good as no competition (the only ones of any note were set up by ex-AP men and closely followed their style), with the result that they basically had no need to evolve or develop.
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