J.B. Allen 1946 series
Publication Dates: 20 September 1946 – 17 May 1949
Number of Issues Published: 70 (#1 – #70)
Color: Black and Red (Alternate Pages),
Issues #15-70: Red and Green Photogravure
Dimensions: tabloid
Paper Stock: newsprint cover and interiors
Binding: squarebound
Numbering continued in The Comet (Amalgamated Press, 1949 series) #71 onwards (31 May 1949).
Amalgamated Press 1949 serie
Publication Dates: 1949 – 1959
Number of Issues Published: 517 (#71 – #587)
Color: Colour covers and centrefold, other pages black and white
Dimensions: 7.25″ x 9.5″
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Numbering continued from The Comet (J. B. Allen, 1946 series) #1-70.
Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database
The Comet was a British comic magazine, launched by Cheshire-based publisher J. B. Allen on 20 September 1946. When the publisher was taken over by the Amalgamated Press in May 1949, Leonard Matthews was appointed editor and exchanged the paper’s customary humour strips for adventure ones like “Battler Britton”, “Billy the Kid”, “Robin Hood”, “Kit Carson”, “Dick Turpin” and “Jet-Ace Logan”. It continued publishing until 17 October 1959, when it was merged into Tiger.
Strips included:
“Blossom” (Eric Bradbury)
“Bowmen of King Harry” (Eduardo Teixeira Coelho)
“Buck Jones” (Reg Bunn)
“Buffalo Bill” (Eric Bradbury, Geoff Campion, Colin Merrett, Alejandro Blasco, José Bielsa)
“Claude and Cuthbert” (Hugh McNeill)
“Claude Duval” (Patrick Nicolle)
“Deed-a-Day Danny” (Hugh McNeill)
“Dick Barton”
“Don Deeds” (R. W. Plummer)
“The Golden Scarab” (Reg Beaumont)
“Handy Andy” (Hugh McNeill)
“Jet-Ace Logan” (George Gillat)
“Jungle Lord” (Reg Beaumont)
“The King’s Thief”, drawn by Eric Bradbury
“Kit Carson” (Geoff Campion, José Bielsa)
“Lucky Logan”, drawn by Eric Bradbury
“Our Ernie”, drawn by Eric Bradbury
“Robin Hood” (Reg Bunn)
“Scamp” (Harry Hargreaves)
“Shorty the Deputy Sheriff” (Hugh McNeill)
“Simon the Simple Sleuth” (Hugh McNeill)
“The Sky Explorers” (Reg Parlett)
“Strongbow the Mighty” (Geoff Campion)
“Thunderbolt Jaxon” (Geoff Campion)
“Tough But Tender Tex” (Norman Ward)
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