*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: This digest-sized comics series, most famous under its later title of Thriller Picture Library, ran for 450 issues until 1963, and while it featured a plethora of characters during its lengthy run, the trend for the early years was for historical swashbucklers based on fictional (but serendipitously copyright-free) characters, but also featuring crime, war, western and science-fiction adventures. The artists were all accomplished Fleetway professionals, and readers thrived on these beautifully-illustrated pocket adventures. Six early issues new in this week, as follows:
PICTURED: THRILLER
#21 FA Black Hood
#24 GD £15 Kevin The Bold
#29 FA £12 Ivanhoe
#30 FA/GD £13.50 The Strange Affair Of The Lyons Mail
#31 GD £15 Jane Eyre
#33 GD/VG £17.50 Tom Brown’s Schooldays