*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 and sometimes (almost) real people! The artists were all accomplished Fleetway professionals, and readers thrived on these beautifully-illustrated pocket adventures. Issues #51-60 featured this week, mostly lower to mid-grade.
IN THIS UPDATE: THRILLER COMICS/PICTURE LIBRARY
#51 VG £15 Kenilworth
#52 GD £10 Hereward The wake
#53 VG £15 Pride Of the Ring
#54 GD £10 The Red Badge Of Courage
#55 GD/VG £12.50 Hopalong Cassidy Rides In
#56 VG £15 To Sweep The Spanish Main. (PICTURED)
#57 GD £10 In The Reign Of Terror
#58 GD/VG £12.50 The Scottish Chiefs
#59 GD £10 The Talisman
#60 GD £10 The Prairie