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It's always nice to be right Col. The strip in question did indeed appear in the Victor, in the centre pages, in issue Nos 719 (30/11/74) - 730 (15/2/75) and was titled 'Lost Armour of Arrow Island' with art supplied by Ted Rawlings. The script is very much as you suggested and Des is right in that the said island is specifically mentioned as being in the Pacific. If you have a look on the 30th Century Comics website Des at the moment they have 9 of the 12 relevant issues of Victor for sale for £2 each. No first issue but a run of the last seven are available.

Ta very much. I'll be going to comics marketplace on Sunday to see what's there .

In Sweden there was an comic strip published in a weekly womens magazine that was about a girl and her dog. The signature was Martin, could that be George Martin? It is similar to Martins comic "Bunion". Does anyone have any idea of the comic I'm ramling on about?

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And while I'm on the subject of George Martin. What was the name of the strip that was similar to "Bunion", but with a sports theme.

Sir-L wrote:In Sweden there was an comic strip published in a weekly womens magazine that was about a girl and her dog. The signature was Martin, could that be George Martin? It is similar to Martins comic "Bunion". Does anyone have any idea of the comic I'm ramling on about?

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And while I'm on the subject of George Martin. What was the name of the strip that was similar to "Bunion", but with a sports theme.

Soon as I saw George Martin I thought blimey he took time out from producing The Beatles to draw comic strips

http://www.georgerrmartin.com/collectors.html

You can email him and ask him here.

Wrong George Martin. The one who worked for DCT died some years ago - check your back issues of Crikey

To be honest I've never heard of Bunion, but that strip certainly looks like the work of DC Thomson's George Martin.

- Phil R.

philcom55 wrote:
To be honest I've never heard of Bunion, but that strip certainly looks like the work of DC Thomson's George Martin.

- Phil R.

Yes it's George Martin's work. Bunion was syndicated to various local papers. (I think one of the Birmingham papers carried it.)

Lew

Lew Stringer wrote: [...] Bunion was syndicated to various local papers. (I think one of the Birmingham papers carried it.)
Lew

It was carried by Swedish papers as well, under the Swedish name "Kulman". And it suposedly was published under the name "Ramsbottom" in some of your Brittish tabloids.

I'll se if I can scan some pictures of the strips I'm looking for.

George Martin's sporting version of 'Bunion' was titled 'Stimey'. Thomson's even ran it in the boy's picture paper Spike.

Kashgar wrote:George Martin's sporting version of 'Bunion' was titled 'Stimey'. Thomson's even ran it in the boy's picture paper Spike.

Thank you for that.

Here's a picture of that strip about a girl and her dog I was talking about. In Sweden it was called "Babs och Buss" [translation: Babs and Buss], any one recognize it?

Was "Terror in a Tall Tower", by Denis McLoughlin, a one-shot or part of an "series"? When published here in Sweden the "heroes" name was Jago and I seems to recall that there been other McLoughlin comics with the same hero, but then again my memory could play tricks on me.

[Edit] Looked through my comics for other McLoughlin comics and stumbled on a comic that in Sweden was called "Kameleonten" (translation: The Chameleon). It's about the secret agent Jim Lennox and his pursuit to find a contract killer known as... you guessed it... Chameleon. What is the original name for the feature, is it Chameleon or something else?

Sir-L wrote:Was "Terror in a Tall Tower", by Denis McLoughlin, a one-shot or part of an "series"? When published here in Sweden the "heroes" name was Jago and I seems to recall that there been other McLoughlin comics with the same hero, but then again my memory could play tricks on me.

[Edit] Looked through my comics for other McLoughlin comics and stumbled on a comic that in Sweden was called "Kameleonten" (translation: The Chameleon). It's about the secret agent Jim Lennox and his pursuit to find a contract killer known as... you guessed it... Chameleon. What is the original name for the feature, is it Chameleon or something else?

The name for the main character in The Terror In The Tall Tower was Don Ballard and the Best Supporting character was indeed Sgt Jago, a plain clothes policeman. While there haven't been to my knowledge any other adventures featuring Jago, he does bear more than a passing resemblance to other Denis McLoughlin characters such as Jake Jeffries (also in the Wizard) and Steelhead Sam (from the Victor).

I'm afraid to say that Chameleon doesn't ring any bells with me. You don't happen to have a scan perchance, so that a visual clue may aid us do you Sir-L?

colcool007 wrote: [...]
The name for the main character in The Terror In The Tall Tower was Don Ballard and the Best Supporting character was indeed Sgt Jago, a plain clothes policeman. While there haven't been to my knowledge any other adventures featuring Jago, he does bear more than a passing resemblance to other Denis McLoughlin characters such as Jake Jeffries (also in the Wizard) and Steelhead Sam (from the Victor).
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Ok, that would explain why I thought I recognized him.

colcool007 wrote: [...]
I'm afraid to say that Chameleon doesn't ring any bells with me. You don't happen to have a scan perchance, so that a visual clue may aid us do you Sir-L?

I'll try to get a couple of scans up sometime today.

Terror in the tall tower was a excellent story.

http://wizardcomics1970-1974.blogspot.c ... er_27.html

Here are scans of the three first pages of the story "Kameleonten", it's 27 pages long all together.