*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. The artists were all accomplished Fleetway professionals, and readers thrived on these beautifully-illustrated pocket adventures. Six early issues new in this week, as follows:
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#7 FA £20 Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves
#13 GD/VG £22.50 Captain Flame
#15 VG £25 The Last Of The Mohicans
#18 GD £20 Again The Ringer
#19 GD £20 Quo Vadis
#20 GD £20 Phantom Footsteps