This boys’ story paper from DC Thomson was launched on 4 March 1922.
It absorbed Adventure in 1961 and The Wizard in 1963, before finally folding in January 1973.
Regular comic strips included:
- Alf Tupper, the Tough of the Track
- The Barrow Boy from Mars
- The Big Fellow
- The Big Tree
- The Dixie Drummer
- I Flew with Braddock – the sergeant pilot VC was still fighting the Second World War in the 1960s
- Johnny Gurkha – a tooth and nail warrior: “We are a peaceful people, sahib, and the quickest way to live in peace is to kill our enemies”
- The Lincolnshire Poacher
- Pony Express
- The ‘Tec Nobody Knows
- V for Vengeance