Biggles comic books issue 1

"Biggles Breaks the Silence" 52 pages

"Biggles & the Sargasso Triangle" 52 pages, Full color

1952. UK reprint edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full green cloth with spine titles stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. Dr. Augustus Duck charters Biggles' plane for excitement and adventure. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 157 pages.

1961. UK reprint edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full blue cloth with spine titles stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. Biggles goes in search of the missing super-luxury yacht, Cordelia. With no clues and the whole world to choose from, Biggles, Algy and Ginger embark on an adventure as exciting as anything in their long history of successful scoops. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 170 pages.

1952. UK first edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full red cloth with spine titles stamped in black. Illustrated with 8 full-page sepia-toned plates by Leslie Stead. Illustrated dust jacket. Air Detective-Inspector Bigglesworth, C.I.D. enters the Cold War and finds some tough spots in Prague and behind the Korean lines. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 158 pages.

1952. UK second impression. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full green cloth with spine titles stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. Biggles gets his men - in Eastern Asia this time. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 188 pages.

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "Spitfire Parade!" By F. Bergèse. End of summer 1940. Biggles has been given command of the 666th Fighter Squadron, which consists of officers who do not take too kindly to discipline. One pilot, Tug Carrington, shows his abilities by shooting down a German Junkers bomber. Angus Mackail flies down to join the 666th Squadron, but due to bad weather, he is forced to land in a field. Later, in a farmhouse, he meets a jealous Canadian pilot called "Nutty" Armand who takes him on a ride to remember. When both arrive at the 666th Squadron, Nutty finds that he is going to be joining the Squadron as well! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 56 pages, full color. Cover price $11.95.

1953. UK first edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full red cloth with spine titles stamped in black. Illustrated with 6 full-color plates by Stead. Illustrated dust jacket. Biggles and his men fly east in grave danger from Red Chinese, when they go looking for eleven smuggled people, hidden in the shrine by the Caves of a Thousand Buddhas in the Gobi desert. Only brave men could triumph over bandits and Chinese in such circumstances as those that arose against Biggles in the Gobi. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 160 pages.

1963. UK reprint edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full orange cloth with spine titles stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. In British Honduras Biggles & Company followed the trial of three lost Americans, and a racketeering King of the Forest. They found that men were being pressed into slavery to collect a product called Chickle, and a panther hoped to make a meal of Biggles. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 184 pages.

1958. UK first edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full brown cloth with spine titles stamped in white. Illustrated with 6 full color plates. Illustrated dust jacket. There is no rest for the guilty when Biggles is in pursuit, drawing the rope of retribution inexorable tighter. Here we have murder on a Pacific atoll, the dramatic rescue of the sultan's son, and an ingenious way of smuggling mink - not to mention (on an occasion that Ginger wasn't likely to forget) the odd case of the aircraft which didn't exist! Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 192 pages.

1st printing. By Asso, Rideau, Chauvin, and Uderzo. On the 15th of May 1940, the forces of the Third Reich surged into the north-west of France after the breakthrough in Sedan. In preparing for complete peace, the unwary French are surprised and defeated without having been able to avoid the blitzkrieg. The Germans block off the British Expeditionary force in the "Dunkirk Pocket." But an incomprehensible hesitation on the part of the German Army allowed His Majesty's forces to escape back to England. In the face of a victorious Reich, the fate of the world will rest on the shoulders of a handful of men - the RAF pilots! Softcover, 8 1/2-in. x 11-in., 48 pages, full color. Cover price $11.95.

199. UK first edition. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full blue cloth with titles stamped in red. Illustrated with 8 plates by Stead. Illustrated dust jacket. The fourth great adventure of Sergeant Bigglesworth, C.I.D. of the British Air Police, to the jungle south of the Amazon with the Biggles quartet. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 190 pages.

1952. UK first edition, second impression. Written by Captain W. E. Johns. Publisher's full red cloth with titles stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. A collection of the briefer assignments tackled by Biggles and Co. which take them from the Scottish Highlands to a native compound in Africa. Hardcover. 5" x 7.5". 189 pages.

Volume 1, 1st printing. Biggles becomes involved with three undercover operations in this bumper omnibus edition of his classic adventure stories that take him from the icy wastes of Antarctica to remote regions of China. Softcover, 7" x 8.5", 512 pages, B&W. Cover price $15.99.