2000 AD ##1263 - #1300. Rebellion

  Publisher:  Rebellion

Publication Dates: 10 October 2001 - present

Number of Issues Published: 1051 (#1263 - #2313)

Color: colour with some stories in black and white; colour cover.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; white interior pages
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

Page: 32        Indicia Frequency: Every Wednesday

Notes

numbering continues from 2000 AD (Egmont Fleetway Ltd, 1996 series) #1204.

Under license from Rebellion.

Merged after #85 into 2000 AD and Starlord
Merged after #126 into 2000 AD and Tornado

Numbering continues with #178 from 2000 AD and Tornado

(IPC, 1979 series) #177

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Fleetway Publications, 1987 series) 

#536 - #1013

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Egmont UK, 2000 series) #1014 - #1204

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Egmont UK, 2000 series) #1205

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Rebellion, 2001 series) #1263

2000 AD ##1263 - #1300. Rebellion

Publication Dates: 10 October 2001 / 17 July 2002

Thriller Comics.- #004 Robin Hood - #005 Gulliver's Travels - #006 Swords of the Musketeers (IPC 1951 Series)

  Thriller Comics

Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: November 1951 – 1953

Number of Issues Published: 40 (#1 – #40)

Color: Colour cover; black and white interior

Dimensions: Digest

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine 

68 pages   -   Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues with Thriller Comics Library (IPC, 1953 series) #41

 #004  Robin Hood

IPC, Dec 6, 1951

Cover/  Pencils & Colors : ??

Robin Hood and the Sheriff's Ransom

Pencils & Inks: :  Philip Mendoza

Robin Hood and the Phantom Knight

Pencils & Inks: :  Philip Mendoza

Robin Hood and the Tyrant Earl

Pencils & Inks: :  D. C. Eyles

#005  Gulliver's Travels

IPC,  Jan 1952

Cover/  Pencils & Colors : Philip Mendoza

Script: Jonathan Swift (original story); Peter O'Donnell (adaptation)

 Pencils & Inks:  Donnison

#006 Swords of the Musketeers

IPC,  Jan 3, 1952

Cover/  Pencils & Colors : ??

The Chateau of a Thousand Pillars (The Three Musketeers)

The Wolves of Zarkoff! (The Three Musketeers)

The Siege of Castle Varonne (The Three Musketeers)

Sript, pencils & Inks: ??

Professor Coffin #19-#21 (1985-1986) Complete Series [Charlton Comics Collection]

 Charlton, 1985 Series

Published in English (United States) United States

 

Publication Dates:

October 1985 - February 1986

Number of Issues Published: 3 (#19 - #21)

Color: Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

Pages: 36  Indicia Frequency: bimonthly

Tracking:

numbering continues from Midnight Tales (Charlton, 1972 series) #18

Note :

Cover title is "Prof. Coffin".

Authors: 

Script : 

Nicola Cuti (signed), Wayne Howard (signed),

Pencils, Inks & Letters:

Wayne Howard (signed), Joe Staton (signed),

Jack Abel (signed),

Colors: 

Wayne Howard, Wayne Howard

Thriller Comics.- #001 The Three Musketeers - #002 Dick Turpin - #003 Treasure Island (IPC 1951 Series)

 Thriller Comics

Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: November 1951 – 1953
Number of Issues Published: 40 (#1 – #40)
Color: Colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: Digest
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine 

68 pages   -   Indicia Frequency: The First Thursday in Each Month

Numbering continues with Thriller Comics Library (IPC, 1953 series) #41

Thriller Comics Library

Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: 1953 – 1957
Number of Issues Published: 122 (#41 – #162)
Color: Colour cover; black and white interior
Dimensions: Digest
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
Publication Type: magazine

Numbering continues with Thriller Picture Library (IPC, 1957 series) #163

Thriller Picture Library

Publisher: IPC
Publication Dates: 1957 – March 1963
Number of Issues Published: 288 (#163 – #450)
Color: Colour Front Cover; Black & White Interior; Black & White Back Cover
Dimensions: Digest Size
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: Squarebound
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database

Thriller Comics, later titled Thriller Comics Library and even later Thriller Picture Library, was a British comic book magazine, published in series of digest sized issues by the Amalgamated Press, later Fleetway Publications, from November 1951 to May 1963: 450 issues in all, originally two per month, later four.

Its stories were mainly historical adventure, featuring classic characters such as Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and the Three Musketeers, western characters such as Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok, adaptations of classic adventure novels and films, and original characters such as Captain Flame, Max Bravo and Battler Britton, either originated for the title or reprinted from other AP titles including Knockout, Sun and Comet. Artists featured included D. C. Eyles, Mike Hubbard, Eric Parker and Septimus E. Scott. Its original editor was Edward Holmes, succeeded in 1952 by Leonard Matthews.

https://britishcomics.wordpress.com

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THRILLER PICTURE LIBRARY

Thriller Picture Library – swashes buckled, pistols brandished and villains slain – the background to this splendid comic book series.

Thriller Picture Library first appeared in the Knockout comic in the 1940s as a series of episodic strips based on classic adventure tales. This was the result of the imagination and enterprise of Edward Holmes and Leonard Matthews, editors of Amalgamated Press. Holmes and, later, Matthews were both editors of the Knockout comic and the interest in the strips therein formed the basis on which this small comic book series evolved (also known as Told in Pictures).

Matthews became editor of the series and it was his ideas and leadership which developed the stories and story adaptations that made them so popular with young (and nowadays, not so young) people. He engaged the scriptwriters and artists and fashioned the tales into a readable format and could be likened to Albert E. Kanter, the father of Classics Illustrated, as the energy and drive behind a series that ran to 450 different issues.

From the beginning, the stories concentrated on classic adventures and historical figures such as the Three Musketeers (an adaptation of The Man in the Iron Mask), Robin Hood and Dick Turpin and new stories were written for them throughout the series. Classic novels were adapted, with Treasure Island the second up after The Three Musketeers – a reprint of the 1945 Knockout serial drawn by Michael Hubbard and based on the 1934 film.

Whilst a number of Detective stories appeared in the series – The Secret of Monte Cristo and The Green Archer, for example, these were discontinued early on as the Super Detective Library series came into being.

The pocket book format had come into being with Cowboy Comics in April 1950, and although the Cowboy Comics series specialised on western stories, the Thriller series included many westerns and, later, a large number of war stories.

The series first appeared in 1951 when there were two issues published each month, rising to four in November 1955 and it continued until March 1963 with issue number 450. From issue number 1 through to issue 17 the series was just known as Thriller Comics Library and then a strap heading of Told in Thrilling Pictures occurred on issue 18 which was then shortened to Told in Pictures with issue 19. This was then retained through to issue 190 when it was dropped (the series was known as Thriller Comics Library through to issue 162 and then changed simply to Thriller Picture Library from issue 163 onwards). So it can be referred to by three different names and is – you may well have your own favourite.

As time passed, the series introduced several war heroes including Dogfight Dixon from the Great War and Battler Britton from the Second World War as well as spy heroes including John Steel and Spy 13. Children, particularly boys, were fascinated by stories of the Second World War in the 1960s and the Thriller series devoted more and more issues to these characters. As their other war series became more popular (Battle Picture Library, Air Ace Picture Library and War Picture Library, for instance) the Thriller Picture Library series lost ground and ended with Flight from the Sun, a Jet-Ace Logan story (Logan was a science fiction character first introduced in issue 383).

https://ccsbooks.co.uk/series-histories/thriller-picture-library-history/

#001 The Three Musketeers (The Man in the Iron Mask)

IPC, Nov 8, 1951  

Cover/  Pencils & Colors : ??

Script: Alexandre Dumas (original story); Edward Holmes (adaptation)

Pencils & Colors:  William Bryce Hamilton

#002  Dick Turpin 

IPC, Nov 8, 1951  

Cover/  Pencils & Colors : Geoff Campion (painting)

Dick Turpin's Ride to York

Script: Leonard Matthews  -    Pencils & Inks:  D. C. Eyles

Dick Turpin and the Goldsmith's Daughter

 Pencils & Inks:   Stephen Chapman

Dick Turpin to the Rescue

Pencils & Inks:  Colin Merritt

 #003 Treasure Island 

IPC, Dec 6, 1951

Cover/  Pencils & Inks:  Philip Mendoza

Story:

Script:  Robert Louis Stevenson (credited) (original story); Percy Clarke (adaptation)

Pencils & Inks:  Mike Hubbard

The Phantom #30 - #74 (1969 -1977) Complete Series [Charlton Comics Collection]

Charlton, 1969 Series

Published in English (United States) United States

 

Publication Dates:

February 1969 - January 1977

Number of Issues Published:45 (#30 - #74)

Color:color

Dimensions:Standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock:Newsprint

Binding:Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format:was ongoing series

Publication Type:magazine

Tracking:

numbering continues from The Phantom (King Features, 1966 series) #28

Notes:

The indicia of issues #30-47 and #58-59 say simply "Phantom". Labeled as "The Phantom" 

in the indicia of all other issues. Material was prepared by King Features for issue #29. 

Although finished printing plates for the issue were given to Charlton, 

they could not be made to fit Charlton's presses which were not industry 

standard and which 

caused the delay in the use of this material in the United States. Eventually, 

Charlton used the material in their issue #35. 

The material appeared sequentially in Mexico and possibly other countries giving rise 

to the rumor that a "foreign" edition of #29 existed. In 2018, the Bootleg Brothers

 fan press published and gave away a limited edition of #29 using the original King 

cover design and the stories reprinted from Charlton.

Authors: 

Script:

Pat Fortunato, Dave Wood ?, Joe Gill ?,

Dick Wood, Gary Poole

Pencils:

José Delbo, Ray Bailey, 

Don Perlin (signed), Frank McLaughlin ?, 

Jack Sparling, Jim Aparo, Charles Nicholas, 

Pat Boyette (signed)

Inks:

Sal Trapani, Frank McLaughlin, Ray Bailey, 

Jack Sparling, Jim Aparo, Vince Alascia, Don Perlin (signed),

Letters:

Ben Oda, Ray Burzon, Jim Aparo, 

Pat Boyette (signed), Don Perlin (signed),

Ponytail #13 - #20 (1969 -1971) Complete Series [Charlton Comics Collection]

 Charlton, 1969 Series

Published in English (United States) United States

Publication Dates: November 1969 - January 1971

Number of Issues Published: 8 (#13 - #20)

Color:  Color

Dimensions: Standard Modern Age US

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

Publication Type: magazine

Pages: 36        Indicia Frequency: bimonthly

Tracking:

numbering continues from Ponytail (Dell, 1962 series) #12

Authors: 

Script: Lee Holley

Pencils  &  Inks :  Lee Holley 

Letters :   ?

2000 AD ##1205 - #1262. Egmont Fleetway Ltd.

 Publisher:  Egmont Fleetway Ltd.

Publication Dates: 9-15 August 2000 - 3 October 2001

Number of Issues Published: 58 (#1205 - #1262)

Color: colour with some stories in black and white; colour cover.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; white interior pages
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Publication Type: magazine

Page: 36        Indicia Frequency: Every Wednesday

Notes

numbering continues from 2000 AD (Egmont Fleetway Ltd, 1996 series) #1204.

Under license from Rebellion.

Merged after #85 into 2000 AD and Starlord
Merged after #126 into 2000 AD and Tornado

Numbering continues with #178 from 2000 AD and Tornado

(IPC, 1979 series) #177

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Fleetway Publications, 1987 series) 

#536 - #1013

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Egmont UK, 2000 series) #1014 - #1204

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Egmont UK, 2000 series) #1205

Numbering continues with 2000 AD (Rebellion, 2001 series) #1263

2000 AD ##1205 - #1262. Egmont Fleetway Ltd.

Publication Dates: 9-15 August 2000 /3 October 2001