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British Comics: Punch For Sale
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,
Punch, the venerable British humor magazine known for its many cartoons and contributions from a who’s who of British humor, including my favorite P.G. Wodehouse, is up for sale and can be yours.
Punch began in 1841 and made it all the way to 1992 before it was suspended. (Charles Dickens was once an editor there.) The magazine got a new owner in 1996 and finally went out for good in 2002.
In college I spent many hours in the library reading bound volumes of the magazine from the 1950s-1980s and thought it was time well-spent.
Of course, it’s not the actual magazine that’s up for sale, and you don’t get access to the original publication’s archives.
Nope, you get none of that for your loot. But there’s a clever fellow out there who goes around re-trademarking brand names that have expired, and one of those trademarks was for Punch.
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