Due to the growing success of The Beano Comic along with its sister paper, The Dandy, The Amalgamated Press, who were competitors of D C Thomson at the time, launched two rival comics using a similar format to The Beano and The Dandy.
Radio Fun was launched on 15th October 1938 and knockout on 4th March 1939. Although the Beano and The Dandy are still being published to this present day, Radio Fun and Knockout ended their days in the early 1960s.
D C Thomson also launched a third comic (22nd July 1939) called The Magic Comic but this was short lived due to increased market saturation during that period.
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