British Update: Fleetway’s Big Cats (2.5): Lion 1957-1958
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Another selection of incoming Lion issues from the 1950’s – carefully selected for your reading pleasure, and not at all the result of a pile being set aside and overlooked. Honest. These issues date from 1957 and 1958, with a remarkably unvarying line-up of features: aviator “Paddy Payne”, space adventurer “Captain Condor”, schoolboy hi-jinks with “Sandy Dean”, felicitous prankster “Lucky Guffy” and Bruce Kent’s invitation to “Spot the Clue” being mainstays throughout. Among the few debuts of this selection is the premier appearance of “Jungle Jef” (it was a poor jungle, they couldn’t afford the second ‘f’), whose greatest achievement was escaping the attentions of the lawyers of Burne Hogarth and the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, for his two-year run in the title!