The Passing Show - Nos 349, 351, 352 (november-december 1938)
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3 magazines from 1938 - No 349 (November 1938), No 351 (December 1938), No 352 (December 1938). Each copy is in reasonably good condition considering age. UK weekly paper of humour and short fiction which had two distinct incarnations, both published by Odhams Press, London. The first series ran for 918 issues from 20 March 1915 to 19 March 1932. This was a small tabloid-size magazine, initially with wartime paper restrictions, that gradually grew in size to become a standard tabloid from January 1924. The emphasis was on cartoons and brief humorous stories, but it occasionally ran to longer items and is probably best remembered, in this incarnation, for the wish-fulfilment stories that became Alf's Button (June-November 1917; fixup 1919) by W A Darlington (1890-1979). In 1932 the paper completely reinvented itself as The New Passing Show (though the title reverted after eight issues) under editor William A Williamson, who guided The Passing Show from 1925 until the end. In this form it ran for a further 362 issues, from 26 March 1932 to 25 February 1939. The new look magazine, which became a large tabloid (14.25 x 10.5 in; 360 x 265 mm) from 7 October 1933, was heavily illustrated and although cartoons and anecdotes remained, along with celebrity news and gossip, the emphasis shifted to fiction, particularly adventure and mystery fiction and a high quota of science fiction. In fact The Passing Show became the UK's most regular periodical source of science fiction in the 1930s.
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