Amalgamated Press

History: Having already launched a couple of successful comics a decade earlier, Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips, in 1901 journalist Alfred Harmsworth gathered these titles and his other publishing ventures into a new company, Amalgamated Press. In 1912 they took up offices in London's Fleetway House, and when the Mirror Group bought Amalgamated Press in 1959, they renamed the company Fleetway Publishing.

Publications: Comic Cuts, Illustrated Chips, Rainbow, The Wonder, Funny Wonder, Puck, Merry and Bright, Firefly, Marvel, Union Jack, Pluck, The Boys' Friend, Sexton Blake Library, Schoolgirls' Own Library, Thriller Library, Girls' Friend Library, Boys' Friend Library, Nelson Lee Library, Magnet, Gem, Champion, Radio Fun

Characters: Bruin Boys, Tiger Tim

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