The fearless
ghost-hunter Maxwell Hawke returned to the front cover with a splash panel from
a new ‘spine-chilling’ story Maxwell Hawke on the Isle of Ghosts.
Two bony hands seize hold of a fisherman’s boat to drag it down into the depths
near Fortress Island on the French coast where Maxwell Hawke and his pretty girl
assistant are enjoying their well-earned holiday.
Next week the
readers of BUSTER were treated to another new strip – Jeff Craig Detective. The
series of mystery thrillers (one complete case a week) drawn by Ian Kennedy was
reprinted from KNOCKOUT.
Captain X – Tiger Shark had already made a few front-cover appearances before.
Thunder Boult the
Magician Who Went to War premiered in the
last issue of March 1964. The theatre where Thunder Boult does his show is
destroyed in a German air raid. Being a genius of escape and other magic
tricks, the entertainer is recruited by M.I.5 and sent to Nazi Germany with a mission
to get a non-Nazi professor out of the country and save him from the Gestapo
investigation. Boult works in tandem with his faithful assistant Props Millar,
an Australian.
As I
explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps
it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the
title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via
e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because
I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might
help fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about
condition. See my blogger profile for the address.
MY
WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964
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