Code Name – Barracuda was a 1960s British comic book series published
in the weekly magazine Lion by Fleetway.
Overview and History Publication
Run: September 10, 1966, to February 24, 1968.
Creators: Drawn by Italian artist Antonio Sciotti.
Format: Initially launched in Lion (and later Lion and Champion),
featuring short serialized chapters before moving into
Fleetway's Secret Agent Super Library graphic novel series.
Plot and Characters
The Heroes: Barracuda was a suave United Nations special agent with superhuman
strength and fitness, aided by his bald, equally strong partner Frollo.
They gained their powers after being exposed to an unidentified form
of radiation on an early mission.
The Villains: They fought W.A.M. (War Against Mankind), a powerful global criminal
organization, and their recurring arch-nemesis, the supervillain King Cobra.
Gadgets: Barracuda used high-tech equipment, including a jet car, hidden boot blades,
and pen-sized flamethrowers.
According to List of Lion stories, “Superhumanly strong United Nations special agent
Barracuda and his similarly enhanced partner Rollo use an array of high-tech gadgetry
to keep the world safe from American supervillain King Cobra
and his criminal organisation W.A.M.”
If you'd like, I can tell you more about:
The Fleetway Super Library and its other spy characters like Johnny Nero
Specific plotlines or the history of British weekly adventure comics from the 1960s
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Compiled and edited by H. C.
We thank H. C. for his courtesy in offering our reader
this magnificent compilation.








Thanks as ever H.C. & Andrew Wallace for this compilation & post.
ReplyDeleteThe Lion adventures of Code-Name Barracuda were drawn by Renato Polese, as the Lion Annual 1968-1969 and the Action Annual 1979 (not included in this compilation), there was also a reprint in Thunder Annual 1973.
Antonio Sciotti drew the Barracuda's adventures in Fleetway Super Library Secret Agent Series.