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Cover	Issue	Title	Notes	Series	Howard Baker Volume
	Issue 1664 1940	The Hooded Man		Lamb series 5/16	HB29 The Mystery of the Moathouse
	Issue 1665 1940	Smithy's Secret Weapon		Lamb series 6/16	HB29 The Mystery of the Moathouse
	Issue 1666 1940	The Bounder on the Trail		Lamb series 7/16	HB29 The Mystery of the Moathouse
	Issue 1667 1940	Six on the Warpath		Lamb series 8/16	HB29 The Mystery of the Moathouse
	Issue 1668 1940	The Japer of Greyfriars		Lamb series 9/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1669 1940	The Secret of the Dugout		Lamb series 10/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1670 1940	The Thief of the Night		Lamb series 11/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1671 1940	A Black-Out Blunder		Lamb series 12/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1672 1940	The Eleventh Hour		Lamb series 13/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1673 1940	Vernon-Smith's Last Fling		Lamb series 14/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1674 1940	Bounder and Sticker		Lamb series 15/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1675 1940	The Bounder's Triumph		Lamb series 16/16	HB30 The Burglar of Greyfriars
	Issue 1676 1940	Sir William's Double		Eastcliff Lodge series 1/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1677 1940	The Mystery Man of Eastcliff Lodge		Eastcliff Lodge series 2/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1678 1940	The Unseen Enemy		Eastcliff Lodge series 3/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1679 1940	Billy Bunter's Hair Raid		Eastcliff Lodge series 4/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1680 1940	The Man from Germany		Eastcliff Lodge series 5/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1681 1940	The Spy of the Gestapo		Eastcliff Lodge series 6/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1682 1940	Nazi Spy's Secret		Eastcliff Lodge series 7/7	HB41 Billy Bunter's Hair Raid
	Issue 1683 1940	The Shadow of the Sack	Last Issue to be Published		GHA73 Greyfriars Press Holiday Annual 1973
The Magnet ceased publication suddenly in 1940 due to the wartime paper shortage. At the time of closure Frank Richards had already delivered four issues from the next series. They were never published and have since been lost. Richards had started the fifth story intended for issue 1688 but had not sent it to the publishers as it was incomplete. The story appeared in print for the first time in Gyles Brandreth's book "Yarooh, a feast of Frank Richards" published by Eyre Methuen in 1976. You can read it here.
	Issue 1684	The Battle of the Beaks		Written but not published
	Issue 1685	Bandy Bunter	Originally, "The Meddler"	Written but not published
	Issue 1686	What Happened to Hacker?		Written but not published
	Issue 1687	The Hidden Hand		Written but not published
	Issue 1688	Exit Bunter		Partly written - published in Yarooh!