First Issue: 6th September 1930
Last Issue: 1st February 1941
Copyright: DC Thomson
The Skipper was the fourth of DC Thomson’s ‘Big 5’ storypapers. The other storypapers were ‘The Adventure’, The Rover’, ‘The Wizard’, and The Hotspur. DC Thomson produced the storypapers in order to compete with the very popular Gem and Magnet storypapers.
Stories in Skipper included ‘Willy Wallops Wangles’, ‘The Team of Blinded Batsmen’ and ‘Wembley Bill Football Doctor’.
The Skipper First Issue
6th September 1930
