Princess Tina Comic
First Issue: 23rd September 1967Last Issue: 12th January 1974Copyright: Fleetway / IPC Magazines With falling…
Princess Tina Comic
First Issue: 23rd September 1967Last Issue: 12th January 1974Copyright: Fleetway / IPC Magazines With falling sales in both their ‘Princess’ and ‘Tina’ comics, Fleetway decided to fold them into one comic called ‘Princess Tina’. The normal convention was that the lead title would be the continuation of that comic and the secondary title would drop…
Princess Comic
First Issue: 30th January 1960Last Issue: 16th September 1967Copyright: Fleetway Princess was a girls’ comic that ran from 1960 intil 1967. Stories in the comic included ‘Alona the Wild One’, ‘Amber Ridd – Daughter of Lorna Doone’, ‘Candy and Mandy’, ‘Castle in the Mist’, ‘Chocky’, ‘Circus Ballerina’, ‘Daughters of Adventure’, ‘Nurse Angela’, ‘Run Kristina Run’,…
Tina Comic
First Issue: 25th February 1967Last Issue: 16th September 1967Copyright: Fleetway Moira – Slave Girl of Rome Short lived British girls’ comic that ran for 30 issues. Stories in the comic included ‘Black Beauty’, ‘Dick and Dinah’, ‘Gi-Gi of the Circus and Her Horse Go-Go’, ‘Jackie and the Wild Boys’, ‘Moira – Slave Girl of Rome’,…
Airboy Comics
First Issue: 1951Last Issue: 1951Copyright: Streamline Short live American reprints comic lasting four issues. The original series was printed in the US by Hillman Periodicals and focused around the adventures of Airboy aka Davy Nelson. Not technically a superhero as he did not have super powers, he was classed as an ‘aviation adventure hero’. In…
Blake’s 7 Comic
First Issue: October 1981Last Issue: August 1983Copyright: Marvel UK Blakes 7 or to give it its full title ‘Blakes 7: A Marvel Monthly’ was based on the popular television series of the same name. There appears to be some confusion around the naming convention. Both the comic and the television series are referred to as Blakes…
The Schoolboys’ Own Library
First Issue: 1925 Last Issue: 1940Copyright: Amalgamated Press Greyfriars School is synonymous with the name Charles Hamilton who was better known as Frank Richards. The cast of Greyfriars School included Harry Wharton, Bob Cherry, Frank Nugent, Hurree Singh and Johnny Bull. Not forgetting the inimitable William George Bunter, bettwer known as the Billy Bunter, “Fat…
