Old-fashioned Comics: 2025

Friday, 10 October 2025

Professor Kraken Integral (Knockout and others 1962-1964) Solano López (#01-#03) & Tom Kerr (#04)

Professor Kraken was a distinguished British scientist who investigated

bizarre cases of science gone wrong, and then tried to set things
right again.

One such instance was the plague of giant animals that threatened

Britain, results of exposing normal animals to a mixture

of weed-killers and fertilisers.
He was often accompanied on his cases by fellow scientist Professor Needler

and his assistant Chris Blower.

Comments: Kraken seems to have been inspired by the similar Professor Challenger.

From the Vaults of Time

Knockout from #1239 [24-11-62] to Valiant and Knockout to #0034 [25-05-63]

Art: Solano López

The Time Machine

Valiant and Knockout

from #0035 [01-06-63] to #0075 [07-03-64]

Art: Solano López

Kraken and the Giant Menace

Valiant Companion Paper to Hurricane

#0076 [14-03-64] to 0096 el [01-08-64].

Art: Solano López

Kraken and the Ogre from the Past

Valiant Companion Paper to Hurricane

from # 0097 [08-08-64] to # 0103 el 19-09-64,

Art: Tom Kerr

Later, in the Valiant Summer Special of 1967 and 1968, a reduced version of From the Vaults of Time was published, with resizing and deletion of vignettes, modifying the title of the adventure: The Day of the Dinosaurs and Return of the Monsters.

There was a reprint of Professor Kraken's final adventure, The Ogre from the Past, drawn by Tom Kerr, which was published in the 1970

Lion and Valiant Special Extra, and this time without any mutilation.

https://misinolvidablestebeos.blogspot.com/2025/09/profesor-kraken-en-el-comic-britanico-y.html

https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/solano-lopez_francisco.htm

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/profkrak.htm

Thanks to:

- Aquellos Inolvidables Tebeos blog for agreeing to be the inspiration

for this post

- Luis Miguel for providing data and two compilations

- Futje Fedankt for the Kraken compilation

- Huckic for Kraken - Knockout Compilation

Cold War -The Damocles Contract (2012) Complete Series. John Byrne - Compiled by Voltaire57

Acclaimed creator John Byrne releases his latest creation, MI-6 agent

Michael Swann. In Swann's opening adventure, 'The Damocles Contract,'

the secret agent is called on to stop a defecting British scientist from granting

the Soviets complete nuclear dominion over the free world…

promising ample doses of intrigue and espionage.

Artist

John Byrne, 1950

More information about "Comics Compilations made by Voltaire57" HERE

Thanks to Voltaire 57 for these magnificent albums

The Victor (1001-1050) D.C. Thomson, 1961

The Victor

The Victor was a British comic paper published weekly by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The Victor ran for 1,657 issues from 25 January 1961 until it ceased publication on 21 November 1992. Associated with it was the annually published The Victor Book for Boys. This annual was first published in 1964, with the last edition published in 1994. A hardback book, The Best of The Victor, was published in 2010 ready to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this popular adventure comic. The book featured a selection of reprints from the weekly comic....

The Victor (1001-1050)

April 26th, 1980 - April 4th, 1981

THE WIZARD OF OZ - A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION. PART 01- Contributed by Jens Terje

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind.

The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the film, while others made uncredited contributions. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar "Yip" Harburg...

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

Jens Terje offers us the following files:

Captain Carrot - Oz Wonderland War 01-03 (1985) (Restored)

Land of Oz 1-9 (Arrow 1998)

Oz - Caliber and Arrow Comics, Vol 1-7 (1995-2000)

Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz - The Complete Comic Strip

Saga 1904-1905 by Walt McDougall (2009)

The Wonderland of Oz 01-03 by Walt Spouse (1932-33 & 2006-07)

The Wonderland of Oz Walt Spouse) (The Funnies 021-064, 1938-1942 )

This magnificent contribution by Jens Terje consists of 5 parts, which include
an exhaustive repertoire of comics related to this popular fictional character.

Many thanks to Jens Terje !!