It’s not often that I blog about adventure strips but this time I’ll do exactly that. Maxwell Hawke was a popular ghost hunter series that ran in BUSTER for six years from 29 October, 1960 till 3 September, 1966. As far as I know, Maxwell Hawke was also reprinted in other countries, Spain in particular, and there are quite a few people who still have fond memories of the series.
The Maxwell Hawke saga consisted of 29 serialised
tales in the weekly comics, details can be found in the paper version of BUSTER
Index 1960 – 1995 compiled by Ray Moore and Steve Holland, as well as on BUSTER comic website
HERE.
BUSTER index mentions that Maxwell Hawke also appeared
in BUSTER annuals 1962 – 1967 but does not provide any details, so I decided to
fill the gap and make the index of the stories complete.
Here goes the list, followed by photos of the first
page of each of the 6 original stories. Photos are the best I can show here because the
binding of those BUSTER annuals makes them completely unsuitable for scanning
without damaging the fragile books…
Buster Book 1962 The
Black Monk, 10 pages
Buster Book 1963 The
Ghost of Glenghoul Castle, 10 pages
Buster Book 1964 Maxwell
Hawke and the Phantom Swordsman, 8 pages
Buster Book 1965 Maxwell
Hawke and the Ice Demons, 8 pages
Buster Book 1966 Maxwell
Hawke and the Ghosts of Blackstone, 8 pages
Buster Book 1967 Maxwell
Hawke in the Haunted School, 9 pages
