Mon.15th October 1983
26th May 1984
#1 -Slippy Sticky Snake
Coronation St. School
Grange Hill Juniors
"The Happiest Read
Of Your life!"
Got Class, Kids!"
"Top Of The Class!"
"Ten Out Of Ten
Saved by the bell...
Fun" opened its gates for just 33 weeks, or issues,
from October 1983 to the end of May 1984. It arrived
crest of a wave of interest for top BBC kids soap
and indeed, featured the Grange Hill Juniors in
"serious" strip. As the title implied,
strips and characters
were all school-related with school kids as the stars,
teachers, or kids and teachers sharing equal billing,
- um - well, the brief was rather restrictive. But
B. Ware the abrasive, rough-handed caretaker who
own strip. Time Bus got the kids out of school
and into the
past or future, as required. But the comic's most infamous
strip was Schoolditz, which took its teachers and pupils
out of the classroom and into the jolly confines of
Prison Camp - Yoiks!
"School Fun" brought back old favourite Slowcoach,
previously seen in the pages of "Whizzer
& Chips", and
Willy Wonty joined the comic after a readers vote.
potential new strips were presented to readers
- one each
week for six weeks from issues 6 to 12. After
apppeared in print, readers could vote for their
It was a format that had been run twice in "Cor!!"
a decade earlier...
As well as the strips, each week we were presented
a selection of daft School Signs to cut-out and
campus, and there was a suitably daft Test Yourself
used to detemine if you were a school sneak, teacher's
chicken, swot or bully, or worse...
of term analysis...
After a woefully short term, the comic merged
on 2nd June 1984. Surviving strips included School
B. Ware, School Belle, Teachers United, Slowcoach,
Walt Teaser and Young Arfur - with
that old sniveler
Creepy Crawler now in Arfur's class too...
The comic now takes its place in history as being
very last foray into Fun Comic territory. The
for an altogether younger audience with "Nipper",
towards trendy teens with "Oink!". But
Fun" was never quite a Grade A title, it
a B+ for effort...