*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. Issues #6-10 fresh in this week, all low grade with taped spines and varying degrees of staple rust, but all complete with clean pages; a couple with loose covers.
PICTURED: THRILLER
#6 FA £20 Swords Of The Musketeers
#7 FA £20 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Cover loose
#8 FA £20 Dick Turpin
#9 FA £20 Hunted On The Highway. Cover loose
#10 FA £20 Robin Hood