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[ghmcleod]

Super Detective Picture Library, was a British comic book, published by Amalgamated Press and Fleetway. Each issue was filled with featured art and stories by a rotating roster of popular and well written detective and science fiction authors and artist from English, Canadian and American artists.

Super Detective Picture Library was published between March 1953 and December 1960. Its artistic and writing style, the likes of which you do not see much of in today's offering received editorial assistance and attention grabbing audiences with appearances from the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Dick Barton, Blackshirt, John Steel, The Saint, Sexton Blake, Rick Random, Rip Kirby, Bulldog Drummond, Fu Manchu, Lesley Shane, Vic Terry, Buck Ryan, Inspector Chafik, Ernest Dudley, Temple Fortune, Captain Dack, Paul Darrow, Tod Claymore, The 'Toff'...just to name a few.

This Super Detective Picture Library book movie was produced from reprints of the actual golden age comic book classic, as a result, the quality of the image presentation on screen may reflect the imperfection present on the resource available. This is generally minor and should not interfere with your viewing enjoyment.

Link to the book: Super Detective Library 029 f Bogof39

[crashryan]

It should be noted that not all the Super Detective Picture Library stories were originals. The Saint, Rip Kirby, and Sherlock Holmes were reprints of American newspaper strips, while Lesley Shane, Buck Ryan and others were British strips. However Amalgamated et al. applied a heavy hand to the reprints, as is shown by comparing the Buck Ryan SDPL that was recently posted with the original strips over in the newspaper section. The biggest change was adding the heavy narrative captions Amalgamated favored. In my opinion this didn't do the strip any favors.