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