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!
Valiant in 1964
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Valiant in 1964
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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!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!
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Don't forget The Crows! Excellent Reg Parlett.
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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.
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Unusually, when it absorbed TV 21 it had full colour centre pages for the star trek strip.
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Worth it just for The Steel Claw (Blasco’s artwork in particular was sublime), but it was a very entertaining read overall.
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Valiant is great, The merger with Knockout really sets it on the right track.
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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.