The Jag Index

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New World for Old (25/5/68) - (16/11/68)
Intergalactic adventure and Jag's first cover strip (25/5-20/7). In the year 3209 AD two policemen are escorting two convicted felons to a prison planet when a space hurricane throws their spacecraft off course and into a galaxy swithcing, stellar vortex. Ultimately crash landing on a far distant world, to their astonishment, they find themselves surrounded by strange reminders of Earth's history as they encounter not only the inhabitants of the New British Empire but also a colony of what appear to be not so ancient, Ancient Romans.

Art - Anon 25/5-19/10, Anon(2) 26/10-16/11

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9) Football Family Robinson (27/7/68) - (29/3/69)
Comedy football yarn and not only Jag's second, and last, cover strip but also the paper's most successful if longevity is the criteria.
Thatchem United, a tiny, struggling 4th Division side, have one claim to fame. They are owned, operated by and have a playing staff made up entirely of the members of one sprawling family, the Robinsons. And any problems they have on the field are more than matched by those they have off as they have to deal with crooked Max Sharkey, a local businessman who hungrily eyes their ground as a prime site for a new supermarket.

Art - Joe Colquhoun

JA 1970-1973

Football Family Robinson continued to appear in the combined Tiger & Jag until 5/10/74 with artwork by Joe Colquhoun and John Gillatt.

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10) The Boy Bandit (27/7/68) - (29/3/69)
A tale of the Mexican Revolution. In early 20th century Mexico a teenage boy sets out to find renowned rebel leader Pancho Villa after his father, a supporter of the rebel cause, is arrested and imprisoned by federal trooops.

Art - Tom Kerr 27/7/68-1/3/69, Anon 8/3, 15/3, Selby Donnison 22/3, 29/3

JA 1971 (text)

The 1970 Jag Annual also contains a 10pg strip titled 'The Story of Pancho Villa', a foreign reprint drawn by Arturo del Castillo, which can be seen as a companion piece to the above.

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11) Iron-Man Martin (23/11/68) - (29/3/69)
A footballer's rise to fame. When a young lad is mocked for being too puny to play for his local boy's team he vows to train himself up to become a formidable defender.

Art John Stokes 23/11/68-1/2/69, David Sque 8/2-29/3

JA 1971

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12) MacTavish and O'Toole (11/1/69) - (29/3/69)
Tongue-in-cheek Commando yarn. The War-time exploits of two sergeants of Number 3 Commando Unit who lay their personal differences aside, most of the time, in order to fight the common foe.

Art - Geoff Campion 11/1-1/3, Alan Philpott 8/3-29/3

JA 1970-1973

MacTavish and O'Toole continued to appear, under that title, in the combined Tiger & Jag until (29/11/69). With the following issue(6/12/69) they are captured and sent to a prison camp where they become part of 'The Barbed Wire XI' and this war story/ football hybrid then ran until (25/11/72). All artwork for these Tiger & Jag strips was by Jim Bleach.

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13) The Vanishing Champions (22/2/69) - (29/3/69)
Reprint time for a story with a plot nearly as old as boy's papers themselves. Johnnie Fleetwing, the world decathlon champion, and a number of other star athletes are kidnapped and taken to an isolated location where someone, known only as 'the General', forces them to perform perilous athletic feats.
This was an edited reprint of a Buster strip originally titled 'Athletes of Lost Island' (23/3/63-20/4/63).

Art - George Radcliffe

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14) Castaways of Shark Island (22/2/69) - (29/3/69)
More reprints and another old chestnut of a plot in the R M Ballantyne tradition. While cruising the Pacific on a yacht a class of boys from Atelco Academy are shipwrecked on a desert island.
This strip first appeared in Tiger from (23/11/63).

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14) Castaways of Shark Island
Art - Anon

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Black Patch the Wonder Horse (22/2/69) - (29/3/69)
A girl's paper plot given a spin so that it would be palatable for boys. When Garsdale racing stables are to be sold off following the death of the owner, stable lad Davey Tyler thinks he may have found a way to find the finances to take over in the curious shape of Black Patch, a horse he buys from a gypsy and who he thinks has the potenetial to become a champion steeplechaser.

Art Sandy James

Black Patch continued to appear in the combined Tiger & Jag until (10/5/69) with artwork again by Sandy James.

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Comic strips

1) Ghouldilocks (19/10/68) - (15/2/69)
The Minnie the Minx of the afterlife.

Art - Graham Allen

JA 1971-1973

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2) Mickey the Mimic (he'll imitate anything for a laugh) (22/2, 1/3, 15/3/69)
Reprints from Buster comic were Mickey first appeared in issue dated (6/4/63)

Art - Anon

JA 1970

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Features

1) Astounding, staggering, funny, crazy (4/5/68) - (29/3/69)
'Fact, fantasy and fun, this page has got the lot'.

Art - main contributor Alf Saporito

JA 1970-1973

2) Fantastic Firsts (4/5/68) - (22/6/68)
A series on various pioneers and pioneering schemes.

Art - Anon

3) Sports Quiz (4/5/68) - (22/2/69)

Art - Frank Lazenby

4) Cars - Past and Present (4/5/68) - (4/1/69)
From Aplha Romeo to Triumph the story of the car in all its forms.

Art - Anon

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5) When Death Reached Out (4/5/68) - (15/2/69)
A text feature, with single accompanying illustration, concerning man in extremis.

Art - Don Lawrence 4/5-25/5, 15/6, Eric Caswell 20/7 the rest unknown.

6) Kings of the Ring (4/5/68) - (20/7/68)
From John L Sullivan to Rocky Marciano the story of the heavyweight championship of the World.

Art - Giorgio Bellavitis

7) The Daredevils (4/5/68) - (15/2/69)
From Houdini to test pilots the story of men who take risks at work and play.

Art - Eric Bradbury 4/5, Tom Kerr 11/5-15/6, 29/6-20/7, 10/8, 14/12, 18/1/69 the rest unknown

JA 1972, 1973

Cops and Robbers (4/5/68) - (14/12/68)
Amazing stories taken from the files of every police force in the World.

Art - Harry Winslade 4/5, 11/5, Mike Western 1/6, Colin Page 8/6, 15/6, Graham Coton 22/6, Harry Farrugia 29/6-3/8, 17/8-21/9, 5/10-14/12 the rest unknown.

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Cops and Robbers JA 1971-1973

9) The Outlaws (4/5/68) - (15/2/69)
From Ned Kelly to Albert Johnson an impressive gang of ne'er do wells down the ages.

Art - Mike Western 4/5, 11/5, Joe Colquhoun 18/5, Tom Kerr 8/6, 15/6, 20/7, 3/8, 31/8, 16/11, Harry Farrugia 29/6, 24/8, Alan Philpott 6/7 the rest unknown.

10) Incredible Feats (4/5/68) - (15/2/69)
Text feature with single illustration. Man at the whim of Nature.

Art - Eric Caswell 4/5, 11/5, Don Lawrence 1/6, Ronald Simmons 6/7, 31/8, Graham Coton 3/8, 10/8, 18/1/69, 1/2, 8/2, Giorgetti 11/1/69 the rest unknown.

11) The Great Teams ( 4/5/68) - (15/2/69)
Soccer team photos in colour.

12) Jag Jokes (18/5/68) - (29/3/69)
An occasional fun feature.

Art - Angel Nadal

JA 1971-1973

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13) Hovercraft SR N4 (18/5/68)
Single full back page feature.

14) Soccer Shorts (29/6/68) - (1/2/69)
Photo round-up of soccer news.

15) Britain's Olympic Hopes - Mexico 1968 (29/6/68) - (12/10/68)
Photo feature on those who tried, and mostly failed, to bring us Olympic glory in 1968.

16) Soccer Star Gallery (27/7/68) - (15/2/69)
Colour photo feature on leading players.

17) The Jag Soccer School (19/10/68) - (8/2/69)
Hints that will make you a better player.

Art - Anon

18) Focus on.... (21/12/68) - (1/3/69)
From smuggling to 'great hoaxes' an eclectic mix of topics featured week by week.

Art - Anon

JA 1970-1973