Old-fashioned Comics

Wednesday, 26 August 2026

At Night Stalks the Spectre from Smash! (1968-1969) - Compiled and edited by H. C.

At Night Stalks... The Spectre

A crime reporter on the Daily Globe newspaper is apparently

killed while investigating

a news story. The world believes newspaperman Jim Jordan is dead,

but he still carries on his crusade against crime, calling himself

The Spectre[f] (The Spirit). Jordan/The Spectre is now fighting crime, rather

than merely reporting it, using

an array of gadgets that make it seem he is the ghost of the missing reporter.

Hence his opponents are terrified to find that if they shoot him he doesn't

die (thanks to a bullet-proof raincoat). And he has a secret underground

hideout beneath the statue erected in his memory, from which he covertly

and unexpectedly emerges, or disappears into, under cover of an artificial fog,

to give the impression he is coming and going from the spirit world.

In his first case he tracks down Black Murdo, the racketeer who

the world believes had murdered him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smash!_(comics)

40 Pages

Compiled and edited by H. C.

We thank H. C. for his courtesy in offering our reader

this magnificent compilation.

Morgyn the Mighty from The Victor V2, V3 & V4 (1961) - Compiled and edited by H. C.

Morgyn the Mighty is a British action-adventure comic strip about a super-strong
shipwreck survivor. The strip debuted in 1928, created by Dudley D. Watkins,
and continued to be published until about 1968.

Publication history

The strip first appeared as the text story "Morgyn the Mighty" in 1928 in The Rover.

The first picture strip version now entitled Morgyn the Mighty appeared in the first issue

of The Beano in 1938, this strip ended in the same year it began. In 1951 the strip was

put in the comic The Rover, but was transferred to Victor Book for Boys in 1963.

The strip was drawn by Dudley D. Watkins for D. C. Thomson. Watkins later

drew a similar story, Strang the Terrible, for the Beano during the 1940s.

Morgyn would appear in further adventures throughout the Victor's publication run.

A similar character named Strang the Terrible first appeared as text stories in

DC Thomsons story paper Adventure in 1936. Strang then reappeared in 1944

in the pages of The Beano

as a comic strip. Some of Strang's adventures, this time in colour comic strip form,

from Adventure were reprinted in The Rover but were retitled Morgyn the Mighty

and were now black and white.

A Morgyn the Mighty book was published in 1951.

Fictional character biography

Morgyn the Mighty is reputedly the world's strongest man. In the first storyline

he is the sole survivor of the shipwrecked schooner Hebrides, stranded on Black Island.

He uses his strength and talents to fight wild beasts and become master of the island.

Authors:

Writer:- The Victor editorial team.

Artists:- Ted Rawlings, Kearon, Garcia, Carrion, Cooper, Dorey? and other unknown artists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgyn_the_Mighty

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/morgyn.html

186 (V2), 177 (V3) & 160 (V4) Pages

Compiled and edited by H. C.

We thank H. C. for his courtesy in offering our reader

this magnificent compilation.

Pike Mason from Boys' World - The Complete Series (1963-1964) Tom Tully & Luis Bermejo. Compiled by Voltaire57

SCALES

1. The Sea Ape

2. The Curse of Zenteca

3. The Monster of Duncrana

4. Slave Kingdom

5. Island of Fear

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Morgyn the Mighty from The Victor V1 (1961) - Compiled and edited by H. C.

Morgyn the Mighty is a British action-adventure comic strip about a super-strong

shipwreck survivor. The strip debuted in 1928, created by Dudley D. Watkins,

and continued to be published until about 1968.