*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Launched in 1963 in the wake of the success of Victor, Hornet followed its elder brother’s formula of sport, war and adventure stories, with a lot of ‘true life’ tales of heroism, and had a respectable run up until early 1976, when it merged with its stablemate Hotspur. Popular strips in the weekly included ‘V For Vengeance’, starring masked concentration camp survivors bent for revenge; ageless athlete Wilson; costumed crimefighter Captain Hornet and, appearing in the vast majority of the 648 issues, Bernard Briggs, sporting polymath who started out as a goalie, but worked his way through tennis, rugby, cricket, motocross, athletics, boxing and more – all without the aid of haunted sporting equipment, so in yer face, ‘Billy’s Boots’! We have over 150 issues of Hornet newly added to our lists from 1967’s #180 to the penultimate number, #647, in its final year of 1976; please see our catalogue listing for details.