The Phantom Viking from Lion & Jet - Compiled and edited by H. C.

The Phantom Viking is a British comic character, appearing in strips published

 by Fleetway Publications. The character's alter-ego was weak-willed school 

teacher Olaf Larsen, who gained the ability to turn into the Phantom Viking 

when he dons a Norse helmet. The character first appeared in the debut 

issue of the short-lived boys' anthology title The Champion on 26 February 1966, 

and continued in Lion when it was merged with Champion a short while later.

Publishing history

The Champion was even less successful than Hurricane, only lasting 15 issues - the

 shortest run of any of the company's weeklies up to that point - before being 

merged into the established Lion, with Nevio Zeccara taking over on art duties 

shortly afterwards.

 The strip would run in the renamed Lion and Champion until 3 August 1968.

 Due to Fleetway's policy of continuing to issue annuals for cancelled titles 

(in order to have as many books as possible on shelves for the lucrative 

Christmas market), parallel to the Lion run further adventures 

(both in picture strip and text stories) appeared in the two Champion Annuals

 issued, and then transferred to the Lion Annual until the 1970 edition, 

despite having finished in the weekly. The character would then make one

 final outing in the 1973 Jet Annual.

Since 2018 the rights to the Fleetway-originated contents

 of The Champion and Lion,  including the Phantom Viking, 

have been owned by Rebellion Developments.

Publication date: 26 February 1966 – 3 August 1968

Creative team

Writer Donne Avenell

Artists José Ortiz, Nevio Zeccara

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Viking

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/phantvik.htm

Lion and Champion #16 December 1967       Lion and Champion #23 September 1967

   

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Zarga from Buster and Jet (1972-1973) - Compiled and edited by H. C.

ZARGA, MAN OF MISTERY

The artists for the strip were Joe Colquhoun and Dave Gibbons, 

while the writer was Marcus Scott Goodall.

 First Appearance: Buster and Jet (IPC, 29th April 1972)

Powers/Abilities: 

Able to hypnotise himself to gain any skill he wants. 

Among the many abilities 

he bestowed on himself were: safe-cracker, train engineer, 

champion motorcyclist, heavyweight boxer, Olympic level pole

vaulter and long jumper, test pilot, escapologist, champion skier, 

tank driver, chemist, and stuntman.

History: A stage hypnotist called the Great Zarga had the amazing power

 to hypnotise himself in a mirror and immediately become skilled in any

profession he chose. Bitter at a public he felt had stopped appreciating him, 

he decided to embark on a life of crime to make them pay for this affront.

After an abortive attempt to break into a safe in a well known bank,

 he then succeeded in robbing a bullion train carrying £3 million in gold, becoming

public enemy number 1. His nemesis on the police force was 

Inspector Gumble of Scotland Yard, who led the pursuit 

of the incredible crook and

hopes of gaining a knighthood if he could only capture him. 

Zarga led him a merry chase, impersonating a 

Baron in order to steal a valuable diamond,

Zarga's run in Buster and Jet lasted for around a year and a half, 

ending in the 3rd November 1973 issue.

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Crazy Car Capers from Jet (1971) - Francisco Solano López. Compiled and edited by H. C.

 Crazy Car Capers 

Concept:

The strip was clearly inspired by the Hanna-Barbera cartoon

Wacky Races and featured an ongoing serial about an unusual 

car race around Britain.

Prize: the ultimate prize for the winner of the championship was a

substantial £ 100,000, a very large sum at the time (equivalent.to over

£1,3: million in today's money).

Characters:

The main contestants were four British drivers,

often relying on national stereotypes for humour.

 

Bulldog Brown: an English racer who drove a coal powered car.

Mac Macintosh: a Scottish character

Dai Williams:  a Welsh character:

Paddy O'Toole: an Irish character.

Plot:

The racers competed in various legs of the race, often facing

disruption from agents of the fictional eastern : European nation

of Mundavia and their operative, Colonel Kutch.

 

Artist: the artwork for the strip was provided by Francisco Solano López.

"Crazy Car Capers" was a serialized comic strip featured in the British 

weekly anthology Jet, published by IPC Magazines,

from 1 May 1971 to 25 September 1971. 

https://grokipedia.com/page/jet_british_comics

 57 Pages

Compiled and edited by H. C. 

We thank H. C. for his courtesy in offering our reader 

this magnificent compilation.