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5 unusual facts about IPC Media


Colin Wyatt

Colin Wyatt (born 1939) worked from 1957 to 1980 for IPC Magazines as an illustrator of children's comics.

Ian Knox

He then joined Red Weekly and Socialist Challenge as a political cartoonist, as well as contributing to various children's comics for IPC from 1975-80.

Long Acre, London

Odhams was bought by the International Publishing Corporation (IPC) in 1961, and the site was closed down in 1969.

Ted Cowan

He not only wrote for Comics, but also Annuals, 'Libraries' and short stories for many publishers including: Odhams Books Ltd., Fleetway Publications Ltd., IPC Ltd. and extensively in later years D.C. Thomson & Company Ltd. of Dundee, Scotland.

The Advertising Archives

In 2002 The Advertising Archives purchased the rights to John Bull magazine from IPC Media.


NME Radio

Broadcast from studios in the Blue Fin Building in South Bank, London, also home to IPC Media, NME Radio was launched on 24 June 2008 with its first track being "Knights of Cydonia" by British rock band Muse.


see also

Preserved main line steam locomotive support in the United Kingdom

The Railway Magazine, September 2009 issue, 5 August 2009, IPC Media, pages 40 – 44, A week in the life of a mainline line steam support crew