RADIO FUN

Radio Fun is one of the great British comic titles and one would have thought it would suffer from an ever-dwindling base of people collecting it as older collectors die out.

But let me quote from way back, a Summer 2006 Market Report made by the premiere dealer for this title Mr. Malcolm Philips. "Radio Fun has a strong collector base and early issues are very difficult to come by in reasonable condition as rusty staples often disintegrated into darker staining around the spines. Thankfully the issues we offered were very presentable and No1 took £276, No 3 £62, No 9 £60 and No 11, the first Xmas issue, £75. Eight early issues between 19 and 47 made over £20 each and the complete year for 1944 in two bound volumes realised £264". Wise words as ever from Malcolm.

And there is real collector interest in the Superman comic strip to be found in the 1960 and 1961 issues, a strip that carried on into Buster comic when the two titles merged.

This title eventually merged with Buster in 1961.