*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: As a companion to our recent massive updates of the ‘Comet’ weekly, we’re pleased to bring you a similarly huge run of its brother and stablemate, ‘Sun’ – no relation to the infamous journalistic tabloid. Although it had dubious beginnings as a naturist magazine called ‘Fitness and Sun’, the ‘Sun’ as we know it took over the wartime paper allowances of that publication to re-launch as a comic for kiddies – which must have somewhat frustrated mail-order subscribers! Be that as it may. For the period under discussion, Sun was a small and slim publication, similar in size, if not thickness, to the US comic book, and this massive update, with most of the issues from #167 on upwards, encompasses the premieres (as comic strips – text versions had previously been published in some cases – of ‘Billy the Kid’, ‘Robin Hood’, ‘Happy Hussar’, ‘Wild Bill Hickok’, and ‘Battler Britton’, all popular and long-running features. #369 saw the switch to a larger format – somewhere between the standard US and UK sizes – and shortly thereafter, the title switched to date-only identification, before being assimilated into Tiger following the 15th August 1959. In addition to all the debuts listed above and the final issue, this run also includes Christmas issues galore, and a particular oddity – the Coronation number, featuring Billy the Kid (who as an American, wouldn’t care), cheering ‘Long Live The Queen!’ about a woman who wouldn’t be born for decades, according to his time setting. Ah, well. This selection is in attractive mid-grades, averaging VG or slightly less.