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Series:
45
Printings:
2045 (2019 Issues)
| Series Name | Years in Print | Issues (Printings) |
| Air War Picture Stories {Comic Books} | 1961 - 1962 | 54 (55) |
| Big Budget {Comic Books} | 1897 - 1909 | 614 |
| Big Budget Holiday Supplement {Comic Books} | 1898 | 1 |
| Christmas Comic {Comic Books} | 1931 - 1935 | 5 |
| Christmas Holiday Comic {Comic Books} | 1936 - 1939 | 4 |
| Comet {Comic Books} | 1909 | 14 |
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Continental Film Photo Stories {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1960 | 5 |
| Dan Leno's Comic Journal {Comic Books} | 1898 - 1899 | 93 |
| Emergency-Ward 10 {Comic Books} | 1959 - 1960 | 20 (21) |
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English Heart Beat Picture Library {Comic Books}
Note: This series was printed with variant covers including Australian pricing for distribution in Australia. It is not listed in Denis Gifford's The Complete Catalogue of British Comics.
|
1965 - 1966 | 11 (12) |
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Funny Pips {Comic Books}
Note: An 8 page comic insert with the first 16 issues of The Boys' Leader story paper. Increased to 12 pages for issue #15 which was an enlarged Christmas number.
|
1903 | 16 |
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Glamour Library {Comic Books}
Note: More issues are likely left to be documented. At least one issue has been found to contain no comics or cartoon content. If all issues are text-only like this one, the series needs to be removed from the database.
|
1950 - ? | 2 |
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Heroic Adventure Library {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may exist.
|
1964 | 8 (9) |
| Holiday Comic {Comic Books} | 1931 - 1939 | 7 |
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Hospital Nurse Picture Library {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1964 - ? | 60 |
| Jolly Jumbo's Christmas Holiday Comic {Comic Books} | 1934 | 1 |
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Marty {Comic Books}
Note: Silver Star merged into Marty in late 1960/early 1961.
|
1960 - 1963 | 162 |
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Mini Mirabelle {Comic Books}
Note: 16 page mini comic given free with Mirabelle issue dated 26 March 1966.
|
1966 | 1 |
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Mirabelle Pop, Film and TV Star Library {Comic Books}
Note: Issues #18 to #22 were twice the size of earlier Picture Library sized issues.
There may be more issues published.
|
1959 - 1960 | 22 |
| Monster Comic {Comic Books} | 1939 | 2 |
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The New Glamour {Comic Books}
Note: A previous Pearson series called 'Glamour' (725 issues, 1942-1956) had no comics. On 16 October 1956 they relaunched with a new #1 title "The New Glamour" with some comics. The title later changed back to 'Glamour' at some point and used dates only (without issue numbering).
The series seems to be generally referred to with the "New" to differentiate it from the previous series. A split might be required when more information is known about title changes.
|
1956 - 1958 | 103 |
| Photo Romances {Comic Books} | 1960 - ? | 6 |
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Picture Romance Library {Comic Books}
Note: Issues of this series are often referenced as having 'no number' but this is rarely true. The issue number is typically listed in small print at the back of the book under the indicia (for example, 'PR/254/5/63' for issue number 254 from May 1963). Due to the cryptic and obscure position of the issue number, issues in this series are typically referenced by title instead of the issue number.
|
1956 - ? | 414 (415) |
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Picture Stories of World War II {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be recorded.
|
1960 - ? | 85 (94) |
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Private-Eye Picture Stories {Comic Books}
Note: Pearson's Picture Libraries are noted for being difficult to index. This is particularly true of this series. This series started in January 1963 with two issues: The Rats of Paris (PEP/1/1/63) and Truth in the Sky (PEP/2/1/63) numbered 1 and 2. No issues were published in February 1963 (that can be traced), and in March the series starts again from number 1 with The China Sea Mystery(PEP/1/3/63). The last issue in the series is Vengeance of the Goddess (PEP/16/10/63) which is the 18th issue.
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1963 - ? | 18 (20) |
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Sea War Picture Library {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented. Some, if not all issues were also printed in New Zealand on behalf of the publisher Pearson in 1962 by D. Organ Ltd. of Auckland. These had the same covers but with a cover price of 1/3d. No issue nos. are visible.
#15 has no comics content
|
1962 | 29 |
| Seaside Comic {Comic Books} | 1930 - 1939 | 10 |
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Secret Agent Picture Library {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1962 - 1963 | 22 |
| Silver Star Library {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 4 |
| Sparkle {Comic Books} | 1953 - 1954 | 14 |
| Spring Comic {Comic Books} | 1932 - 1934 | 3 |
| Story of the Film All in Pictures {Comic Books} | 1959 | 3 |
| Summer Comic {Comic Books} | 1932 - 1938 | 4 |
| Summer Holiday Comic {Comic Books} | 1935 | 1 |
| Sunny Sands {Comic Books} | 1939 | 1 |
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T. V. Picture Stories {Comic Books}
Note: The interior text of some issues call this title "T.V. Picture Series".
This Pearson series used a confusing internal numbering system, initially incorporating the Feature reference (Charlie Chan - CC; Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans - HE etc), then the number of issues that that particular character had appeared in - 1, 2, 3 etc. Followed by the month and year of publication. Hence the first issue of Charlie Chan is numbered CC/1/6/58.
After 15 issues, the series reverted to a standard numbering system on the cover for 12 issues. These new issues also used a different internal numbering system of Feature reference; number in the series; date of publication (now including the day as well as the month and year); and the number of times that the character had appeared in the series. Hence the first issue within this part of the series was WT/1/28/2/59/1 which is William Tell/#1/28th February 1958 and the first appearance of William Tell in this series.
After these 12 issues, the cover issue number disappeared, but the internal numbering continued until the end.
Due to the complicated numbering, this series will be shown in order of when they were published with the full internal reference number used. The 12 issues with a cover number will have that issue number plus the internal reference number.
Emergency Ward 10 was part of this series for the first four issues of the title. In February 1959 it was split from TV Picture Stories into its own series with issue 5. Neither the Emergency Ward 10 series nor TV Picture Stories advertised each other in their pages from this point.
|
1958 - 1959 | 57 (61) |
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Tit-Bits Science Fiction Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Pearson only released 6 issues of Tit-Bits SF in the UK, but they had a planned a seventh, which they cancelled. However, Ron Turner had already done it, so when Pearson sold the reprint rights to Chateaudun (France), this issue went with it. This 7th issue has NEVER been done in English, and corresponds to # 21 in the Aventures de Demain series.
|
1953 - 1954 | 6 |
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Tit-Bits Wild West Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Six known issues, with interior art by George Ratcliff and by Norman Light.
No numbering on covers, and no usual Pearson coding on the rear page - it is anyones guess in which order they appeared.
|
1953 - 1954 | 6 |
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TV Photo Stories {Comic Books}
Note: There were two issues each featuring O.S.S and William Tell.
|
1960 | 6 |
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Western Picture Library {Comic Books}
Note: This series ran from number 1 in April 1958(WPL1/9/58) until number 92 in July 1962 (WPL92/7/62). Pearson later reused this series title for a new series in 1965.
|
1958 - 1965 | 92 (97) |
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Western Picture Library {Comic Books}
Note: This series started in March 1965 (WPL/P1/3/65), three years after the first series ended. Only four issues have thus far been traced, but may have devolved into a western text series with continuous numbering.
|
1965 - 1965 | 4 (5) |
| Whoopee {Comic Books} | 1962 | 1 |
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Wild West Picture Stories {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1960 - ? | 1 |
| Yellow Star Library {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
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Young Lovers Picture Story Library {Comic Books}
Note: Denis Gifford's The Complete Catalogue of British Comics reports issue 1 as 1958 but does not indicate a total number of issues or end date. Issues of this series have no number on the cover, but include a code with an issue number on the last page next to the indicia. The series was printed with versions that have different cover prices for the UK, Australia and possibly other countries.
|
1958 - 1959 | 26 |