TV Fun was a weekly British comic magazine put out by Amalgamated Press back in the 1950's. The publisher was already running two sister publications, Film Fun and Radio Fun, and with the growing success of the new medium, television, it made sense for a third.
It ran under its name for 312 issues, September 19, 1953 to January 30, 1960. Sometime in 1954 two other magazines, Tip Top and Jingles, were merged into TV Fun and for a short time the title of the magazine was TV Fun, Tip Top and Jingles before reverting to its original name.
Near the end of its run, the emphasis switched from a variety of adventure stories to romance and the name changed to TV Fun and Romance in Pictures but that was short-lived and a few months later that year the title changed to TV Fan. After its 312th issue, it was itself merged into the publication Valentine.
TV Fun was an anthology serial publication. Each issue would hold a collection of different characters spread over a broad spectrum of genres. Each of these would have their stories told in small packets of 2-3 pages each issue.
Some of the residents of this magazine were new graphic stories based on existing television shows, such as the American western, Wagon Train. Others were interestingly noted movie stars who were used as main characters thrust into adventures and mysteries, such as the beautiful and highly talented Sally Ann Howes as well as the singer and entertainer Pearl Carr.
My access to issues of this magazine is sketchy therefore my knowledge of the exact times for the Calling Z.9 adventures is limited.
The earliest issue I have with Z.9 in it is #56 (10/09/1954) and the story was already ongoing. It is possible that Z.9's history stretches to the beginning of the magazine. I just do not know yet.
Similarly, the last issue I have found for Calling Z.9 was #283 (02/14/1959) and that adventure continued past that issue. Again, it is possible that Z.9's presence in the magazine lasted until the very end.
Also not known but postulated is the length of each adventure. My feeling is that tales were serialized over 10-12 issues with usually 2, sometimes 3 pages, each issue. If this holds up, there could be as many as 30 adventures about this operative,
I know for certain of 10 missions and those are described below.
Note: many of the later adventures had titles. Some of the earlier ones either did not or I have not found them so those titles in quotes are my inventions.