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    Thunder (comic)

    “Read it . . . and you’ll be thunderstruck!”

    This weekly comic from Fleetway/IPC debuted on 17 October 1970 and lasted for just twenty-two weeks before merging into Lion in 1971.

    Regular strips included:

    • Adam Eterno – who was thousands of years old and could only be slain by a fatal blow from a weapon made of gold
    • Black Max
    • Cliff Hanger
    • Dusty Binns
    • Fury’s Family
    • The Gang
    • Gauntlet of Fate
    • The Jet-Skaters
    • Phil the Fluter
    • Sam – reprints of ‘Biff’ from Wham!
    • The Spooks of St. Lukes
    • Steel Commando
    • The Terrible Trail to Tolmec

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