[crashryan]

This was an entertaining story. Though the jargon flowed a bit thick, I get the impression the writer must have known what he was talking about. According to "Confessions of a Ghost-Hunter" the stunt with the photographic plate was used by phony spiritualists to photograph "ghosts" visiting their living relatives.

The art has its ups and downs. Part of the time it's quite good, other times it's sketchy and rushed. Looks like the story was cut and re-pasted from another source.

Link to the book: Super-Detective Library 077 Bogof39

[paw broon]

As usual, crash, you are right.  This was originally a newspaper strip.  SDL published a number of issues which reprinted re-jigged newspaer strips.  I confess to not knowing who drew the strip and I don't know in which paper it originally appeared.

[hoover]

I am just reading Super Detective Library #76 which is a Lesley Shane story and at the bottom of a panel on page 3 is a note which says

[paw broon]

SDL featured a lot of re-jigged newspaper strips, Lesley Shane and Vic Terry being two. Others were some of The Saint stories which were reprinted from American papers.  Other American newspaper strips which were re-formatted to fit the pocket library comics were Rip Kirby, Paul Darrow and one story of Jet Scott, which was a relatively short-lived American strip nicely drawn by Jerry Robinson (in my opinion, the best Black Terror artist). Buck Ryan appeared about 15 times, being reprints from Daily Mirror.

[crashryan]

John Adcock posted an informative essay about Lesley Shane on his blog "Yesterday's Papers." He gives a rundown of the career of Shane artist Oliver Passingham, who later contributed extensively to Amalgamated Press and D.C. Thomson titles. The Shane strip was written by Conrad Frost and originally commissioned by the Kemsley newspaper chain. It ran approximately 1953-1955. Read John's article here:

http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2011/08/lesley-shane.html