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pages of comics and text, with a spot colour cover. Fatty Finn made an appearance and
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from a poor inner-city neighbourhood. Fatty is a half-pint version of the 'Bloke' with his own 'push' of tiny would-be toughs and molls, who already have a strong sense of how the world works." John Ryan, in his
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but did not increase the volume of comic strips instead padding out the additional pages with text. Nicholls disagreed with the direction that the comic book was taking. The comic struggled before folding in early 1935.
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