Looking back at VALIANT No.2 (1962)

I showed a few pages from Valiant No.1 in my previous post so I thought you might like to see some pages from issue 2 today.

It kicked off with another striking cover by Geoff Campion, with Captain Hurricane about to lob a terrified Nazi. Good for him! Inside, R.Charles Roylance illustrated the three and a half page Captain Hurricane strip. As you can see, this was before Roylance exaggerated Hurricane's physique and "Ragin' Furies" to more cartoonish levels.

The second episode of The Steel Claw by Tom Tully (writer) and Jesus Blasco (artist) saw Louis Crandell embark on his life of crime...

Although it was a new comic, Valiant contained a few reprint pages from the outset. One of which was Paladin the Fearless, a British translation of the French strip Belloy, drawn by Albert Uderzo. (More info:
http://ift.tt/2gDCFX1 )

Another reprint was from a source closer to home. Jack O'Justice was a renamed Dick Turpin strip that had appeared in Sun comic in 1953. Art by the very versatile Hugh McNeill. Valiant would continue to reprint more renamed Dick Turpin strips like this for a while, before commissioning brand new Jack O'Justice strips at a later date. Towards the end of the Sixties, the strip was brought into the present day with the character's descendant, Jack Justice.

The back page of Valiant No.2 featured another Famous Fighters article illustrated by Geoff Campion.

I hope you've enjoyed these brief glimpses at the early issues of one of Fleetway's leading comics.