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
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