Comic Cuts

British comic magazine

Comic Cuts
Publication information
Publisher	Amalgamated Press
Schedule	Weekly
Format	Comics anthology
Genre	Children's, humour
Publication date	May 17, 1890; 133 years ago (1890-05-17)^[1] – September 1953 (1953-09)
No. of issues	3,006

Comic Cuts was a British comic magazine. It was published from 1890 to 1953, lasting for 3,006 issues. It was created by Alfred Harmsworth. In its early days, it inspired other publishers to produce rival comic magazines. Comic Cuts held the record for the most issues of a British weekly comic for 46 years, until The Dandy overtook it in 1999.

Publication history

The first issue of Comic Cuts sold 118,864 copies, with circulation growing to around 300,000 soon after.^[1] During its lifetime, the comic merged with many others, including Golden Penny (1928), Jolly Comic (1939), and Larks (1940). Comic Cuts finally disappeared in September 1953 when it was merged with Knockout.^[2]

Content

Its first issue was an assortment of reprints from American publications.^[2]

In other media

The comic is mentioned in G. K. Chesterton's 1905 book Heretics and in the 1910 book Alarms and Discursions, and in a line of Cyril Tawney's song "Chicken on a Raft" — "He's looking at me Comic Cuts again".^[3]^[4] It was also mentioned in Clive Dunn's 1971 hit record "Grandad" — "Comic Cuts, all different things." The character Annie Twohig refers to it in Lennox Robinson's play Drama at Inish — "Annie: I'll stay at home and read a magazine." "Constance: Which magazine?" "Annie: Comic Cuts."

References

^ ^a ^b Roberts, Andrew (2022). The Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781398508705.
^ ^a ^b Comic Cuts at britishcomics.com
^ "On Mr. Rudyard Kipling and Making the World Small" from Heretics
^ "The Three Kinds of Men" from Alarms and Discursions