*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: In the 1950s, as well as reprinting US comics, several British companies produced original comics in the US size and style, and we have four such examples this week. Captain Vigour (1952) was an olympic strongman turned adventurer with an emphasis on body image and fitness; Charles Rand (a later entry from 1966) appeared in just one comic, with Mick Anglo art — he was the man from S.U.N.D.A.Y. (Special United Nations Defence Agents, Y section — you could tell it was the sixties!); Space Comics (1958) featured the science fiction hero Captain Valiant of the Interplanetary Police Patrol (also with Mick Anglo art); Miller’s TV Heroes (1959), did exactly what it said on the tin: ‘picture stories of historical characters who have become TV Heroes’. Full details of all in our catalogue as always.
PICTURED: SPACE COMICS #77 VG/FN £25 SOLD