Playhour (1954)

Start year: 1954

Issues in volume: 1081

A weekly anthology title from Amalgamated Press, and later Fleetway, Playhour ran from October 16th 1954 to August 15th 1987. At one point in the 1970s, it sold 330,000 copies a week. It began life as Playhour Pictures, with a lead strip Prince, Wonder Dog of the Golden West, and was intended for primary school-age children, in contrast to its pre-school sister title, Jack and Jill, but after 31 i...

Publisher: Amalgamated Press

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