The Rainbow
Running for over 1,800 issues between 1914 and 1956, *The Rainbow* was a long-running British comic from Amalgamated Press, best remembered for its cheerful, child-friendly tone and the enduring popularity of its star character, Tiger Tim. A staple of pre- and post-war juvenile reading, the series helped define the look and feel of the British story paper, with its whimsical animal antics and gentle serialized adventures. Though largely the work of many hands over its decades-long run, the strip is most closely associated with the artist Julius Stafford Baker, who gave Tiger Tim his iconic visual style. *The Rainbow* matters as a foundational text of British comics, demonstrating the astonishing longevity and commercial viability of a single, consistent concept.