*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. Nine issues between #99 and #118 featured this week, mostly towards mid-grade.
IN THIS UPDATE: THRILLER COMICS/PICTURE LIBRARY
#99 GD/VG £12.50 Claude Duval
#100 GD/VG £12.50 Buffalo Bill and the Battle of Sun Valley
#104 GD/VG £10 Musketeers At Bay
#105 GD £8 Captain Kidd of the Spanish Main
#111 GD £8 Strongbow the Mohawk
#115 GD £8 Guns at Broken Bow
#116 GD £8 The Cavalier and the Crown
#117 GD £8 (PICTURED) Dick Turpin and the Phantom of the Highway.
#118 GD/VG £10 Robin Hood against Norman Foes