The Scare Crow

From PM Productions Chief Annual the first strip is uncredited.

 

PyraMid Productions Chief Annual

 

Before you ask, there are some Wild West text stories but despite the cover it is not a Western annual.

PYM or PyraMid Productions was Pyramid Productions based in London and Letchworth. It appears to be another 1940s publisher of juvenile (or kids) entertainment. It could have been part or owned by a regional newspaper publisher rather like the tracing/drawing books and annuals published by Renwick of Otley https://britishgoldenagecomics.blogspot.com/2020/07/do-you-know-anything-about-renwick-of.html

The strips from the annual include one by Denis Gifford and another by Glinbo (Glyn Prothero) and spread throughout are the red, black and white strip Bad Men of Stone Face Mountain which is credited 1947 King Features Ltd. (but I cannot find it listed on any site dealing with King)  Now that helps as the album is thin, paper browning and very brittle and 64pp. It is typical of other annuals/albums at the time where war time restrictions were still in force and typical of 1947-1949 annuals.

NOT a "1930s" or even "undated" annual as all sellers write -because they never looked inside and if it reprints a 1947 newspaper strip then it cannot be from the 1930s -can it?
 

PM Prods also produced drawing books.

   They also published Little Bo-Peep 10pp; b/w ills; Little Bo-Peep finds her sheep with a little help from Jeremy Crumpet.

Or, a favourite type of book around the world a cut out book so that you can dress a figure.

 All of these are dated as "war time 1940s" but without finding out more about who owned the company all I could say is that everything is consistent with a 1944-1949 publishing venture and I suspect there is a newspaper connection due to the King Features strip being included.    As before, I will look for both the King Features strip as well as the publisher behind PM Productions which also do not appear in any of the Denis Gifford reference books.

A-Ladd-In Luck!

 From Chief Annual 1940s writer and artist Denis Gifford

Super Thriller Annual 1960

 Third and final instalment, kids!

Super Thriller Annual 1959

Okay you hep cats and groovers -ready for the net batch of illoes from Ace Hart's text story? Well here you go!

Super Thriller Annual 1958

 I mentioned Ace Hart In Super Thriller Annual in a previous post and I am sure that I promised to show the illustrations accompanying the text stories -only one per annual.  So here you go.

https://britishgoldenagecomics.blogspot.com/2024/06/ace-hart-in-super-thriller-annual.html

There is an excellent interview with artist Edgard Hodges along with art and photographs over at the Sodor Island Fansite

https://www.sodor-island.com/edgar-hodges