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Characters included:
The Miracle Man from Mars
All the world's greatest atheletes gathered in London for the Olympic Games - but the star of the Games was Zog, the one-man team from outer space!
Bernard Briggs
the unbeatable goalie and scrap metal merchant who drove a motor bike and sidecar in which the sidecar was fashioned from a bathtub. I can never remember him letting in any goals unless he was distracted or ill or fell foul of some cheating by the opposition team. Bernard was all man and shunned socks as a poncey affectation. As well as being a brilliant footballer he also won Wimbledon (playing with a home made square tennis raquet)was an accomplished rugby league player, runner and pole vaulter. I also remember one series in which he took the job of delivering a vintage car to California and drove across the USA taking part in various American sports on the way. He continued to appear after the merger/takeover with Hotspur.
Jonah
A ten-ton terror trundles over the ocean floor, Jonah the jinx is on the rampage once more!
Dolphin Patrol
Johnnie Dawson and his trained dolphins were helping in the Pacific battle against the Japanese during the Second World War.
Captain Hornet in his peculiar black and yellow flying machine. Always on the front cover in colour.
Wilson
(Who I think originally appeared in The Wizard). All-round wonder athlete who was at least 200-years- old. Wore a strange one-piece black underwear outfit. Lived on nuts and berries on the moors. Died on WWII in his Fairey Battle plane. Also dabbled in cricket in one series, in which he captained a victorious English team in the Ashes, skittling the Aussies with his super fast bowling.
Its Goals That Count.
Football story (a la Roy of the Rovers) featuring Nick Smith and a team whose name ecapes me. Among his fellow players was the rough Arnold Tabbs whose boyhood was portrayed in another story called The Blitz Kid.
The Balancing Boy
Story about a young trapeze artist.I seem to recall he wore some kind of grass skirt - don't know why.
The Big Palooka.
A bowler hat wearing Scotland Yard detective assigned to work with a US police force.
The Coonskin Grenadier
A crackshot hillbilly who through some ancient birthright came to hold a commission in a stuffy British regiment.
The Swamp Rat.
Set somewhere in South East Asia during WWII featuring a hero covered in a camouflaged bodypaint (or tattoos ??) waging a one man war against the Japanese. Always accompanied by a mongoose. He was very good at swimming and often eluded the enemy by hiding under water in the swamps while breathing through the hollow stem of a reed.
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