The Disney Magazine by London Editions Magazines was re-launched in March 1983 from No 1. The first 18 issues were calendar-monthly, then from No 19 onwards the magazine became fortnightly and remained so through to the final issue (No 166). No 52 was a Christmas bumper issue covering a period of three weeks.



Apparently, according to the Inducks website, Disney Magazine was split into a weekly and a monthly comic (article HERE). In some parts of the UK (or maybe only in certain shops), the original Disney Magazine continued with issue 8 onward, published monthly as before. In other parts of the UK, The Disney Magazine Weekly Edition Nos 8 to 23 were published. Roughly every fourth issue of the weekly was identical to the corresponding monthly...



The No 8 weekly was published the week after the No 7 monthly - There were TWO identical No 7s, one with the week ending date on (the first weekly edition) and one without (the monthly edition). Every three or four weeks, the weekly edition was identical to that month's monthly edition. The No 12 weekly was identical to the No 8 monthly, and subsequently, the No 16 weekly was identical to the No 9 monthly, the No 19 weekly was identical to the No 10 monthly and the No 23 weekly was identical to the No 11 monthly...



No 7 Weekly No 7 Monthly No 12 Weekly No 8 Monthly No 16 Weekly No 9 Monthly No 19 Weekly No 10 Monthly No 23 Weekly No 11 Monthly

A valued contributor of mine (Alasdair Wilson) actually has these weekly edition comics and he has provided me with scans to show on my site. I have included these as a side gallery HERE. I have now acquired some of these editions.



Both the weekly and the monthly issues were priced at 27p, so maybe this strange split was an experiment to see if people were prepared to pay more for the comic more frequently. Indeed, a very few months later the monthly became fortnightly (with No 19) and the price increased to 30p per issue.



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