British Update: First Quenchers Plus: Fleetway Super Library: Frontline and Lion Picture Library
*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: The first two issues of two popular Picture Libraries new in. In 1963, Lion Picture Library was launched, collecting serials of popular characters from the famous weekly, eventually branching out into new stories. In 1967, one of the three Fleetway Super Library series was Front Line, alternating stories of ‘Maddock’s Marauders’, a rag-tag team of international soldiers, and ‘Sgt. Ironside’, who, to absolutely no-one’s surprise, got the job done while disobeying military rules. These 100+ page Fleetway Super editions had glued spines, so are free of the staple rust problem, and are in exceptional shape for their years. For its debut issues, Lion PL pulled out maximum star power, with RAF aviator Paddy Payne in #1 and Robot Archie in #2. Our Lion PL #1 is generally excellent shape but a touch of rust around the staples – the bane of many Picture Libraries – bringing it ever so slightly down to VG/FN. Issue #2 is FN, clean and supple with bright cover. All four of these new additions are depicted: Lion Picture Library #1 VG/FN £35 and #2 FN £35; Fleetway Super Library Front Line #1 FN/VF £30 and #2 VF £25. SORRY, THESE HAVE NOW SOLD