Thriller Comics #28: "The Return of Captain Flame", art by Septimus E. Scott, 1952.
Publication information
Publisher
Amalgamated Press / Fleetway Publications
Schedule
Biweekly; weekly
Format
Ongoing series
Genre
Action/adventure
Publication date
November1951 – May1963
No. of issues
450
Main character(s)
Robin Hood Dick Turpin Three Musketeers Buffalo Bill Wild Bill Hickok Captain Flame Max Bravo Battler Britton
Creative team
Artist(s)
D. C. Eyles, Mike Hubbard, Eric Parker, Septimus E. Scott
Editor(s)
Edward Holmes Leonard Matthews
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]
^Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, p. 108
^"Complete AP/Fleetway Comic Index". Archived from the original on 14 September 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
^Peter Richardson, Septimus Scott - the Septuagenarian Swashbuckler, Cloud 109, 11 March 2010
^Norman Wright and David Ashford, Masters of Fun and Thrills: The British Comic Artists Vol 1, Norman Wright (pub), 2008
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