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[limpalongmick]

Hello all

avid collector over many years and was just wondering my son sent me an Comic Annual I have'nt heard of anyone help??

Scramble Annual 1950 3/6d by Gerald G Swan Ltd.

[steelclaw]

Welcome limpalongmick.

Is this it, can't say I've heard of it before.

[limpalongmick]

Yep thats the one, only mine has a football scene on the front

curious I'll have to find the history of it now

cheers

[HighAndMighty]

26 pigs have a small amount of information on this- it souns like a bit of an odd one to me...

http://www.26pigs.com/scramble/index.html

[limpalongmick]

Apparently not a lot of info about this Comic, G.G.Swan Ltd also printed this little lot as well but i've not heard of any of these
Schoolgirls Album
Schoolboys Annual
Fairies Album
Slick Fun
Funnies
Kiddiefun
Girls Fun
Cute Fun
Comicolour
Scramble
They also printed small written story books for children at 3/6d

[Lew Stringer]

I'm sure Kashgar will be able to provide info on the Swan books/comics, but here's a preview of one of the annuals:

http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2007/01 ... ies-2.html

I have a few more, which I'll cover in the future at some point.

Lew

[Kashgar]

Scramble was a story paper, as opposed to a comic, produced by Gerald Swan between Mar 1947 and Mar 1951. It ran to 57 issues, first published monthly and then weekly and spawned four annuals 1948-1951 ( This was unusual as the norm was for Swan to call his yearly hardback issues 'albums').