[Dave Hayward]

Published August 1953, art - Philip Mendoza.

Link to the comment: Super Detective Library 9 - The Island of Fu Manchu

[The Australian Panther]

Thanks Dave,
this would be the same guy.
Wind in the Willows (Mendoza)
https://bookpalace.com/acatalog/Wind_in_the_Willows_Mendoza_Art.html
Great stuff.
Wish I had a spare couple of hundred pounds!

One of his greatest achievements occurred early on in his career: The Mighty Atom (1948), an all colour strip comic, designed and drawn in its entirety by Mendoza. This publication, from the tiny firm of Denlee Publishing Co., can probably lay claim to being the first all-colour, all picture, British comic. It certainly shows Mendoza's versatility, containing as it does strips featuring highwaymen, cowboys, detectives, space-travellers and funnies. It was written and published by the author/publisher, Stephen Frances, for whom he later designed the silhouette logo of Hank Janson for the famous series of "hard-boiled" paperback thrillers. Mendoza drew the comic, Captain Vigour, for Miller's Sports Cartoons series before starting work for the Amalgamated Press.


He drew strips for Sun, Comet, Cowboy Comics Library, Super Detective Library and, during its early years, for Thriller Comics Library; first contributing a number of short strips, in issues 4 and 6, and then the splendidly drawn Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (number 7). His ability to capture a brooding atmosphere was admirably displayed in The Green Archer (no.16) and Phantom Footsteps (no. 20, for which he also contributed the cover painting) and his Rogues' Moon (no.66) is an entertaining piratical adventure. His one piece of work for the Super Detective Library: The Island of Fu Manchu (no. 9) is generally accepted as one of the best issues of the series. Mendoza was a true professional who would turn his hand to almost any style of strip. During the latter part of his career, a great deal of his output was for the nursery comics. His version of Kenneth Graham's Wind in the Willows was published in book form, in full colour, by Leonard Matthews' Martspress. Biography extract courtesy of David Ashford and Norman Wright. 

I don't suppose we have the mighty Atom here? would be a great find.

[SuperScrounge]

Doesn't appear that we have the British The Mighty Atom, although Magazine Enterprises did put out a comic of the same name that we do have.

Also I believe The Mighty Atom was the translation of the Japanese manga also known as Astro Boy.