British Update: To The Victor, the Spoils! 100+ issues newly stocked, from 1969 to 1976
*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: Launched in 1961 and running a grand total of 1,657 issues until 1992, the Victor was home of Alf Tupper, ‘The Tough of the Track’, flying ace ‘Braddock V.C.’, Tarzan-wannabe ‘Morgyn the Mighty’, and a plethora of other strips hewing firmly to the trope set of ‘score the winning goal against the Nazis while eating fish n’ chips’. Until late in life its covers were dominated by true stories of wartime heroism, with comic-strip versions of how real-life British, Empire or Commonwealth forces won particular medals, a trend emulated by its siblings Hornet and Hotspur, and explaining its enduring popularity among gentlemen of an age to remember World War II. We have slightly more than 100 issues of Victor newly listed, commencing with #8 from 1961, the first year of publication, then leaping forward in time from 1969 through to 1976.