[johan72]

Hello everybody,
Really lovely website. This is my first post on this forum!

I recently came across a Billy The Kid page drawn by Don Lawrence published on the following website:
https://downthetubes.net/?p=111919
I knew Don Lawrence from The Trigan Empire, Karl The Viking and Storm, but I did not know he also worked on Billy The Kid.
The page in question is apparently published in Sun, cover dated 12th May 1959, published by Fleetway.

I have been browsing the comicbookplus website for weeks but cannot find this comic. Is it yet to be uploaded?
Thanks for your help!

[The Australian Panther]

A page of

[paw broon]

Sssshhhhh!!!!! Keep it to yourself but we have 4 excellent compilations of Billy/ Masked Avenger, here:-

https://comicbookplus.com/?cid=3262

[johan72]

Thanks for the feedback!

Comic historian Steve Holland wrote a short but interesting article about this for a German Don Lawrence fanzine (for those interested, see: "Pandarve - Don Lawrence Magazin", 1991, issue 3, page 21), in which he explained Don's contribution to Billy The Kid.

According to Steve Holland, the first Billy The Kid episode drawn by Don Lawrence was published in Sun #491 (July 5, 1958), and Don would continue to draw 16 more stories.

But perhaps he even made more, it is not known. Some of these stories (if not all) were written by Michael Butterworth, long before he worked together with Don Lawrence on "The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire" (1965). So far, none of these stories have been reprinted in modern times, which is quite surprising.

Unfortunately, the Billy The Kid SUN Collections on this website only run until December 14, 1957, long before Don Lawrence started working on this series.

[johan72]

Found it!
You can read the story in Lion 400 available here:
https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=75548

Big thanks to the uploader!