School Friend Birthday Club


School Friend lasted 766 issues from 20th May 1950 through to 23rd Jan 1965 surviving a number of merges until 1965 when it became 2nd fiddle to June to become June and School Friend. School Friend was a comic aimed at school girls and  consisted of picture and text based stories with emphasis on the picture stories. It was published by  Amalgamated Press before being taken over and published under Fleetway Publications in 1959.

Each week there was a section called The S.F.B.C. (School Friend Birthday Club)

Members of the S.F.B.C. would receive a badge as per the example shown below.


S.F.B.C. (School Friend Birthday Club) Badge


The S.F.B.C.


from the collection of Brad Farrell