*Collected Editions: In 1943, Steve Dowling and Gordon Boshell created the newspaper strip Garth for the Daily Mirror, inspired by American works such as Superman and Flash Gordon. The orphan Garth grew up with phenomenal strength and, as his adventures progressed, he developed the ability to travel through time and to be eternally reincarnated, courtesy of his true love, the goddess Astra. His devotion to Astra notwithstanding, Garth dallied with a number of shapely ladies through the aeons, a trait emphasized in the 1970s when Frank Bellamy took over illustrating the series. Garth’s adventures lasted in the Mirror until 1997, but comparatively few have been reprinted. This week, we have the two Daily Mirror Book of Garth editions from 1975 and 1976 respectively, the debut volume of the Titan Books series from 1984, and a selection of the Daily Strips reprints issued in the early 1980s. These slick, usually A4 magazines reproduced an entire adventure in one go, but had an extremely limited circulation, being printed in runs of around 400 copies only. A couple of the Daily Strips covers are reproduced for your elucidation: issue #5 VF £10, the Jack the Ripper-themed ‘Night of the Knives’, and #7 VF £12, ‘The Doomsmen’, a Bellamy classic. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD