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EDDIE THE HAPPY EDITOR Frederick George Cordwell was better known to Film Fun fans as Eddie The Happy Editor . Cordwell was at his job till when he died in 1949, aged 62 at Richmond Surrey. Cordwell was a tireless worker who wrote many scripts for the strips as well as the stories in Film Fun and was responsible for the huge plates of Sausages and mash, the giant xmas puddings, pies and such the characters received from grateful beneficiaries of their efforts. Cordwell even made it into the stories himself, meeting Laurel and Hardy a number of times, Joe E Brown, Wheeler and Woolsey, etc. A SOMETIMES ROCKY ROAD Picture Fun merged with Film Fun soon after its launch in 1920, followed by Kinema Comic in 1932, Film Picture Stories in 1935, Illustrated Chips in 1953 and Top Spot in 1960. In 1962, sales of Film Fun dropped below 125,000 a week and IPC put what little was worth anything into a new comic called Buster . Note: Harold Lloyd made it to the cover of the first issue of Film Fun, but not under his own name but a screen name; "Winkle." EXTERNAL LINKS |
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