*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. Ten issues between #82 and #95 featured this week, mostly towards mid-grade.
IN THIS UPDATE: THRILLER COMICS/PICTURE LIBRARY
#82 GD £10 The Swordsman
#83 GD £10 The Apache Curse
#84 GD £10 The Chronicles Of Captain Blood
#85 GD £10 Dick Turpin – For Justice and the Right
#86 GD £10 (PICTURED) Rob Roy
#87 GD/VG £12.50 D’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers
#92 GD/VG £12.50 Dick Turpin and the Lost Heir
#93 GD £10 Forward, the Musketeers
#94 GD £10 The Highway Blade
#95 GD/VG £12.50 Sabre and Tomahawk