ESPIONAGE CORNER: BARRACUDA!

 ESPIONAGE CORNER: BARRACUDA!

ALTERNATING WITH JOHNNY NERO IN THE FLEETWAY SUPER LIBRARY SECRET AGENT SERIES WAS A CHARACTER KNOWN AS BARRACCUDA ... CIRCA 1967 – 1968 ...

ESPIONAGE CORNER: MORE JOHNNY NERO COVERS!

BRITISH COMICS CORNER: THE STEEL CLAW!

BRITISH COMICS CORNER: THE STEEL CLAW!

THE STEEL CLAW WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR COMIC BOOK HEROES OF BRITISH WEEKLY ADVENTURE COMICS OF THE 1960S AND 1970S.

THE CHARACTER WAS REVIVED IN 2005 FOR ALBION, A SIX ISSUE MINI-SERIES PUBLISHED BY THE WILDSTORM IMPRINT OF DC COMICS.

IN 1967, FLEETWAY FEATURED THE CHARACTER IN A NUMBER OF DIGEST-SIZE ORIGINAL STORIES IN THEIR STUPENDOUS SERIES OF SUPER LIBRARY COMICS. THE STEEL CLAW WOULD ALTERNATE WITH THE SPIDER (FROM LION COMICS) IN THESE BOOKS, WITH THE CLAW FEATURING IN THE ODD-NUMBERED EDITIONS.

BECAUSE OF THE PRESSURES OF DEADLINES, THESE MONTHLY TITLES SAW A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT WRITERS AND ARTISTS EMPLOYED, USUALLY VARIOUS ITALIAN ARTISTS, MOST NOTABLY FUTURE 2000 AD ARTIST MASSIMO BELARDINELLI. THESE RAN UNTIL JANUARY 1968.

ESPIONAGE CORNER: JOHNNY NERO!

ESPIONAGE CORNER: JOHNNY NERO!

Fleetway Super Library (Jan 1967 – Jan 1968)

You didn’t have to be a millionaire with a cool name to play the spy game in the 60‘s, but it doesn’t hurt.  Johnny Nero was a skilled operative for British Intelligence in MI5, but after inheriting a fortune he left the field of espionage, becoming even more wealthy though his own efforts.

Quickly bored with his life as a millionaire Nero started taking assignments from his old boss in the spy trade Colonel Jason and dealt with a succession of assassins, saboteurs, criminals, spies and master minds.

Johnny lived in Kensington Garden, London, in an appropriately `groovy pad’ where you would properly find a millionaire/spy in the '60s, and was sometimes aided on his missions by his business secretary Jenny Bird.

The covers of all of Johnny’s adventures were rendered in oil by Italian artist Paolo Montecchi who depicted the hero as having a striking resemblance to actor Marcello Mastroianni.

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES!

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES!

ATOMIC BLONDE

WRITER’S CORNER: TERRANCE MCCAULEY!

WRITER’S CORNER: TERRANCE MCCAULEY!

UPCOMING FIGHT CARD AUTHOR TERRENCE MCCAULEY (FIGHT CARD: AGAINST THE ROPES FEBRUARY 2013) HAS A COOL GUEST BLOG POST TODAY OVER AT ELIZABETH A. WHITE’S BOOK REVIEW BLOG ...

Today Terrence McCauley is here to reflect on the difference between tenacity and obstinacy in the life of a writer, and how which one chooses to embrace makes all the difference in the world. It certainly did for him, as his first novel, the Depression-era gangster yarn Prohibition, was published to great reviews just last month.

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