Miscellaneous Section. This section contains stories and articles that don't particularly fit anywhere else or don't have enough issues scanned to justify a section of their own.

The Man who Shot the Constable is a story that appeared in the Jester on 17th August 1907. My thanks to John Tipper and Keith for sharing it.

The Tom Browne's Annual from 1904 featured a Hamilton story called "A Christmas Comedy", you can read it here. My thanks to Michael Bailey for sharing it.

Look and Learn was published weekly by Amalgamated Press. In 1963 the Editor experimented by reprinting some of the (drastically pruned) stories from the Magnet. The Editor received little reader reaction and the experiment was dropped after only 15 issues. The fact he selected sub stories for the first few issues probably contributed to the lack of interest! You can read one of the stories tucked in the back of issue 91 from 1963 here.

The Lone Texan was published by Atlantic Books in 1954. It isn't up to the quality of the Rio Kid but still worth a read. You can read or download it here.

“The House of Fear” by Frank Richards

Bear Hudson, London, 1946

This story was published as part of a series of mysteries by different authors, and follows his previous foray (as Michael Blake) into the murder-market, “Death in the Dark” (Merret, London, 1945).  Other titles include "The Curate finds the Corpse" by AT Rich, “Death Haunts the Charnel Estate" by Jackson Evans and "Terror Stalks by Night" by N. Wesley Firth.  All had vivid colour illustrations by HW Perl.

The ace detective, Duff Carter comes to the rescue again!  Duff Carter was forced to pierce a double-screen of plot and counterplot before he could drag from his hideout the man who had planned to kill Sir Arthur Torrington.  The mystery of the repeated attempts on his life deepened at every stage, and turned suspicion away from the hand which fired the shots, bringing the criminal within a hair’s breadth of accomplishing his fell aim, and baffling detection!

You can read a review by Nandu Thalange here and download the book here.

The Sun Weekly

The Sun Weekly was published by the Amalgamated Press. A few of the latter issues featured a comic strip based on the Great St Jim's rebellion. I have no further information on this particular periodical so if you can help please contact me.

You can read issue 462 here and issue 465 here.

The Wonder Book of Comics was published by Odhams Press in 1949 and contained a story "Billy Bunter's Booby-Trap". In the Collector's Digest of June 1955 Bill Lofts questioned whether this was an original story or a reprint from the Holiday Annual and appealed to the readers for information about this story. Frank Richards replied the following month stating that it was an original story, the only story that he had ever wrote for Odhams. You can read the CD extracts here and the actual story here.

Eric Fayne was probably the greatest writer and promoter of the works of Charles Hamilton that ever lived. Eric was the owner and Headmaster of Modern School Surbiton for around 30 years. On what would have been the Hundredth birthday of Ralph Page (Eric's real name) former pupils of his school produced a newsletter celebrating his life. Thanks to Michael you can read it here.

Derek Adley and Bill Lofts received many requests for information on post war Greyfriars so they decided to publish a list of post war Bunter stories. You can read the 1983 bibliography here.

Discovering Comics was published by Denis Gifford. Thanks to Slinky of the Scanarama Yahoo group you can read it here.

After the war Hamilton was unable to write Greyfriars stories as he had sold the copyright to the AP. He went on to create a number of new schools and in 1944 he created Carcroft School for  Hutchinson's Pie. A rather unusual story was later published in the Denis Compton Annual where it was revealed the character 'Turkey Tuck' was in fact Billy Bunter's cousin.  You can read the story here.

Series 4 (More commonly known as the "third new series") of the Nelson Lee ran from 25th February 1933 until 12th August 1933 before merging with the Gem.  In this series the AP reprinted a number of issues from the old series hoping to emulate the success of the Gem when they followed the same reprint policy. Unfortunately this wasn't to be and the Nelson Lee Library merged with the Gem after only 33 issues.

The final issue of the Nelson Lee contained a short St Jim's story "Rough on Ratty" presumably to introduce the characters to the Nelson Lee readers. Thanks to Michael Bailey you can read the story here.