BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 10

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