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Valiant in 1964

Posted: 08 Oct 2018, 19:12
by SID
Just reading through an almost full year of 1964 Valiants. I was too young to appreciate them at the time (I was born half way through the year) but what a great read. There's Kelly's Eye, The Steel Claw and Kraken & the Giant Menace (and other adventures); there's also the introduction of Mytek the Mighty (evidently it only takes two weeks to design & build a giant robot ape in the middle of the jungle - brilliant!).

And I still haven't got to Captain Hurricane, Billy Bunter or The Wild Wonders to name a few yet.

Great comic! :up:

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 09 Oct 2018, 13:35
by Adam Eterno
SID wrote:Just reading through an almost full year of 1964 Valiants. I was too young to appreciate them at the time (I was born half way through the year) but what a great read. There's Kelly's Eye, The Steel Claw and Kraken & the Giant Menace (and other adventures); there's also the introduction of Mytek the Mighty (evidently it only takes two weeks to design & build a giant robot ape in the middle of the jungle - brilliant!).

And I still haven't got to Captain Hurricane, Billy Bunter or The Wild Wonders to name a few yet.

Great comic! :up:
I was born in the same year and lived abroad for a while but when I returned in 1974, Valiant was my first British comic that I loved. I've since bought the whole set and have the digital version which I sometimes sit back and read a few months worth.....love it!

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 09 Oct 2018, 17:20
by stevezodiac
Don't forget The Crows! Excellent Reg Parlett.

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 09 Oct 2018, 17:31
by starscape
Can't say I'm a fan of the Crows but Valiant really moved comics along. It did for the 60s what 2000AD did for the 70s.

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 10 Oct 2018, 08:36
by stevezodiac
Unusually, when it absorbed TV 21 it had full colour centre pages for the star trek strip.

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 14 Feb 2021, 18:24
by The Green Man
Worth it just for The Steel Claw (Blasco’s artwork in particular was sublime), but it was a very entertaining read overall.

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 10 Mar 2021, 00:33
by David McDonald
Valiant is great, The merger with Knockout really sets it on the right track.

Re: Valiant in 1964

Posted: 10 Mar 2021, 17:17
by Shiner
Sometimes a merger really makes a title far, far better. Whizzer & Chips with the other Knockout being one that brought in some great long standing strips.