Old-fashioned Comics: August 2025

Friday, 22 August 2025

John Brody from Boy's World (1963-1964). The Complete Series - Compiled by Voltaire57

The Complete Series of John Brody from Boy's World

Published in the years 1963-1964

Summary

1. What is Exhibit X ? - 19 double pages

2. House on Scar Island - 22 double pages

3. The Fire Creatures - 17 double pages

4. The Invisible Man - 5 double pages

5. The Green Men - 12 double pages

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Sun #0001# - #462 (Various issues) + 2 Extras (1947-1959) J. B. Allen - Amalgamated Press

The Sun (originally simply Sun) was comic launched on 11 November 1947 by publisher
J. B. Allen, changing from weekly to fortnightly during its run.
It had previously been a health magazine called Fitness and Sun.

The publisher was taken over by the Amalgamated Press in 1949, and under the first editor
Leonard Matthews it featured fewer humour strips and more adventure ones.
It ran until 17 October 1959,
when it was merged into Lion. Len Wenn was a later editor.

Sun : A later issue with a new cover strip.

J. B. Allen, 1947 Series

Published in English (United Kingdom)

Publication Dates: 1947 - 1959

Number of Issues Published: 41 (#01 - #41)

Color:

Red & Green Front Cover; Red & Green Back

Cover; Red & Green Centrefold; Black & White Interior

Dimensions: 91/2"x 121/4"

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Loose Pages

Publishing Format: Was ongoing series

Tracking:

numbering continues with Sun Comic (Amalgamated Press), 1949 series) #42

numbering continues with Sun (Amalgamated Press, 1952 series) #164

Note:

Early issues titled (Fitness and) Sun

Script: ? Pencils: ? Inks: ? Colors: ? Editing: ?

Strips included:

"Addy"
"Ali Barber" (Frank Minnitt)
"Battler Britton" (Geoff Campion)
"Billy the Kid" (Geoff Campion, Don Lawrence, Alejandro Blasco, Harry Bishop)
"Buck Jones"
"Clip McCord, Special Agent" (Reg Bunn)
"Deed-a-Day Danny" (Hugh McNeill)
"Dick Turpin" (Mike Butterworth, Hugh McNeill, 1951-54)
"Formula 'X'"
"Harold Hare" (Harry Hargreaves)
"Jak of the Jaguars" (Patrick Nicolle)
"John and Joan" (R. W. Plummer)
"Johnny Conquest" (Gino D'Antonio)
"Kindheart"
"Lancelot Lake" (Hugh McNeill)
"Max Bravo" (Mike Butterworth and Eric Parker)
"Mike" (Eric Roberts)
"Moko the Monk" (Robert MacGillivray)
"Ollie" (Harry Hargreaves)
"Patsy and Tim" (Eric Parker)
"Robin Hood" (Reg Beaumont)
"Roy Rogers"
"Sherwood Outlaw" (Reg Beaumont)
"Simon the Simple Sleuth" (Hugh McNeill)
"Sitting Bull"
"Sparks and Flash" (Roland Davies)
"Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit" (Norman Ward)
"The Swiss Family Robinson" (Bob Wilkin)
"The Terrible Three" (Martin Clifford)
"Voyage to Venus"
"Wild Bill Hickok" (D. C. Eyles)
"Young Joey" (Hugh McNeill)

The Victor (0901-0950) 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 (0901-0950)

May 27th, 1978 / May 5th, 1979

Ghost Patrol from Smash!. Gerry Embleton (1966) - Compiled by Voltaire57

Gerry Embleton (born 1941) is a British artist, born in London. He is best known as an illustrator of military and historic subjects. He has illustrated more than 40 titles for the military publisher Osprey. He is the younger brother of illustrator Ron Embleton.

Career

Embleton began as a comic strip artist, and worked on Look and Learn and TV Century 21 in the 1960s. He created the World War II science fiction strip Phantom Patrol for Odhams Press' Swift in 1962; it was reprinted as The Ghost Patrol in Smash! in 1966.

Embleton was the first artist to work on the new Dan Dare in the revived Eagle, published by IPC Magazines in 1982. This Dan Dare was the original's eponymous great-great-grandson, taking on the mantle of space explorer. Set 200 years after the original story, the first story-arc featured the return of Dan Dare's earliest nemesis, The Mekon.

In 1983, Embleton moved to Switzerland, and later began working in children's educational illustrations and then advertising.

In 1998, he founded a company called Time Machine that works with museums all over the world, specializing in vivid displays with 3D figurines.

Gerry Embleton is a founding member of the Company of Saynt George, a living-history association. His 1995 book The Medieval Soldier, co-authored with Tolkien illustrator John Howe, had a big influence on the living-history hobby as a whole.

He lives in Prêles near Neuchâtel. He also paints landscapes.