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William Blain


Born
in Gourock, Inverclyde, Scotland
March 19, 1903

Died
October 14, 1984

Genre
Fiction


William Blain, editor of comics and story papers for DC Thomson, was born in Gourock, Scotland. He won a scholarship to Glasgow University, while working as a part-time football reporter on local newspapers. On leaving university, he went to work for the Glasgow Evening Herald. In 1923 he applied for an editorial position at D. C. Thomson in Dundee, and was offered a position as a sub-editor on the boys' story paper The Rover. By 1927 he was editor of The Wizard, and launched The Skipper in 1930 and The Hotspur in 1933. He came to have editorial responsibility for all of Thomson's story papers. In 1937 he prepared dummies for Thomson's first comic, The Dandy, the success of which led to the launch of The Beano in 1938 and The Magic Comic in ...more

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