[2] The newspaper-format journal was innovative in combining entertaining stories and puzzles with large cartoons.
[1] These were often satirical in tone, with some by John Proctor, known as Puck,[3] and some from German and French sources.
It was aimed at an adult lower middle-class audience, rather than at children, and benefitted from innovations in the use of cheap paper and photo-zincography printing.
[2] One of the contributors to the journal was Alfred Harmsworth, who launched his own Comic Cuts a few years later.
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