The Magic Comic

The Magic Comic was a title published by DC Thomson from 22nd July 1939 to 25th January 1941 (a total of 80 issues), when it was cancelled due to wartime paper rationing. It was aimed at a younger audience than Thomson's popular Beano and Dandy comics, and contained strips including cover feature Koko the Pup by E.H. Banger, Dolly Dimple by Allan Morley, Peter Piper by Dudley D. Watkins, The Tickled Twins in Wonderland, Oompah Pete, Pa, Ma and Squeaker, Poor Blind Billy, Ugly Muggins and (on the back cover) Sooty Snowball. In addition, two volumes of the Magic Fun Book were published in September 1939 and September 1940 (effectively, Magic Comic Annuals), and following the title's cancellation these "annuals" were for a time incorporated in to the Beano Book, which became the Magic-Beano Book. Magic was revived in 1976, and ran until 1979, though the revived version was aimed at an even younger audience than the original and contained none of the original characters, instead introducing a number of mostly magic based strips such as Witch Wanda and Betsy's Magic Bracelet.