Thriller Comics Explained

Schedule:Biweekly; weekly
Ongoing:Y
Publisher:Amalgamated Press / Fleetway Publications
Adventure:y
Startmo:November
Startyr:1951
Endmo:May
Endyr:1963
Issues:450
Main Char Team:Robin Hood
Dick Turpin
Three Musketeers
Buffalo Bill
Wild Bill Hickok
Captain Flame
Max Bravo
Battler Britton
Artists:D. C. Eyles, Mike Hubbard, Eric Parker, Septimus E. Scott
Editors:Edward Holmes
Leonard Matthews
Sort:Thriller Comics

Thriller Comics, later titled Thriller Comics Library and even later Thriller Picture Library, was a British comic book magazine, published in series of digest sized issues[1] by the Amalgamated Press, later Fleetway Publications, from November 1951 to May 1963: 450 issues in all,[2] originally two per month, later four.[3]

Its stories were mainly historical adventure, featuring classic characters such as Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and the Three Musketeers, western characters such as Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok, adaptations of classic adventure novels and films, and original characters such as Captain Flame, Max Bravo and Battler Britton, either originated for the title or reprinted from other AP titles including Knockout, Sun and Comet. Artists featured included D. C. Eyles, Mike Hubbard, Eric Parker and Septimus E. Scott. Its original editor was Edward Holmes, succeeded in 1952 by Leonard Matthews.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, p. 108
  2. Web site: Complete AP/Fleetway Comic Index . 7 January 2012 . 14 September 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190914032811/http://www.dandare.info/history/fleet_index.htm . dead .
  3. Peter Richardson, Septimus Scott - the Septuagenarian Swashbuckler, Cloud 109, 11 March 2010
  4. Norman Wright and David Ashford, Masters of Fun and Thrills: The British Comic Artists Vol 1, Norman Wright (pub), 2008