[1] The title was renamed Film Fun and Thrills in 1959 (when Amalgamated Press was bought by the Mirror Group; later known as IPC).

In 1962, sales of Film Fun dropped below 125,000 a week, prompting IPC to merge the comic with Buster.

He introduced the idea of characters receiving huge plates of bangers and mash, giant Christmas puddings, and pies and such from grateful beneficiaries of their efforts.

Cordwell even made it into the stories himself, "meeting" Laurel and Hardy a number of times, Joe E. Brown, Wheeler and Woolsey and other characters.

Apart from Laurel and Hardy, Film Fun used to feature many film and stage comedians of that era like Charlie Chaplin,[4] Abbott and Costello,[5][6] Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin,[7] Jackie Coogan, Fatty Arbuckle,[7] Joe E. Brown,[7] George Formby,[7] Wheeler & Woolsey,[7] Max Miller,[7] Lupino Lane,[7] Red Skelton,[4] Harold Lloyd (named Winkle in those days),[8] W. C. Fields, Terry-Thomas,[4] Sid Field, Frank Randle, Morecambe and Wise,[9] James Cagney,[10] Tony Hancock, Sid James, The Goon Show, Frankie Howerd, Tommy Cooper,[11] Martin and Lewis, Arthur Lucan (in his drag role as Old Mother Riley) and Bruce Forsyth.