*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Continuing our 1930’s update, we’re spotlighting Skipper – the one of D.C.Thomson’s ‘Big Five’ which was suspended “for the duration” at the outset of World War II, but never made it back. A dozen new issues, primarily from 1937. In addition to Skipper, we also have selections of Rover from 1931 to 1937, a pair of Adventure from 1934, and a couple of oddities: Topical Times from 1938 and 1939, and a Red Letter from 1941, two series which are more the antecedents of general magazines rather than the precursors to comics that the story papers were, but we thought we’d give them a try! These slices of history from the days of The Empire are strangely compelling in retrospect.