The Sun

Sun issue 14, with "Voyage to Venus" as its cover feature.

The Sun (originally simply Sun) was comic launched on 11 November 1947 by publisher J. B. Allen, changing from weekly to fortnightly during its run. It had previously been a health magazine called Fitness and Sun. The publisher was taken over by the Amalgamated Press in 1949, and under the first editor Leonard Matthews it featured fewer humour strips and more adventure ones. It ran until 17 October 1959, when it was merged into Lion. Len Wenn was a later editor.

A later issue with a new cover strip.

Strips included:

• "Addy"
• "Ali Barber" (Frank Minnitt)
• "Battler Britton" (Geoff Campion)
• "Billy the Kid" (Geoff Campion, Don Lawrence, Alejandro Blasco, Harry Bishop)
• "Buck Jones"
• "Clip McCord, Special Agent" (Reg Bunn)
• "Deed-a-Day Danny" (Hugh McNeill)
• "Dick Turpin" (Mike Butterworth, Hugh McNeill, 1951-54)
• "Formula 'X'"
• "Harold Hare" (Harry Hargreaves)
• "Jak of the Jaguars" (Patrick Nicolle)
• "John and Joan" (R. W. Plummer)
• "Johnny Conquest" (Gino D'Antonio)
• "Kindheart"
• "Lancelot Lake" (Hugh McNeill)
• "Max Bravo" (Mike Butterworth and Eric Parker)
• "Mike" (Eric Roberts)
• "Moko the Monk" (Robert MacGillivray)
• "Ollie" (Harry Hargreaves)
• "Patsy and Tim" (Eric Parker)
• "Robin Hood" (Reg Beaumont)
• "Roy Rogers"
• "Sherwood Outlaw" (Reg Beaumont)
• "Simon the Simple Sleuth" (Hugh McNeill)
• "Sitting Bull"
• "Sparks and Flash" (Roland Davies)
• "Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit" (Norman Ward)
• "The Swiss Family Robinson" (Bob Wilkin)
• "The Terrible Three" (Martin Clifford)
• "Voyage to Venus"
• "Wild Bill Hickok" (D. C. Eyles)
• "Young Joey" (Hugh McNeill)

References

• Denis Gifford, Encyclopedia of Comic Characters, Longman, 1987
• Complete AP/Fleetway Comic Index

External links

• Issues of Sun scanned at Comicbookplus