Wizard (1970)

Publisher: D.C. Thomson

Strips that debuted in 1970: Billy Blunder; Billy Cinders; Bradley's Bowmen; The Clutching Hand; Cool Kragg, the Team-Maker; The Crimson Claw; Doc Croc; The Early Days of...; Flash Harry; Follow That Man; The Frozen Footballers; Here Comes Whack!; Inspector Bonehead; Johnny Modesty; Keeper of the Sword; The Last Boy of Redman's Rock; The Man from USH; Mulligan's Misfits; Out of the Ice He Came; The Place of the Fights; Poor Young Joe; Scrappy, A Boy All Alone; Slave of the Ring; Soldiers of the Jet Age; Stories of Stanton Town; Striker Bell; Sweeper Swann; Trainer MacReddy and his Wee Black Bag; Trooper Bo-Peep; The Voice That Ran the Rangers; Waif of the Speedway

Comments: A total of thirty-one different strips debuted in The Wizard in 1970, a number made more impressive given that the title launched in February and so that's for eleven months, not twelve.

Summary of strip changes by issue:

• Strips starting in the first issue: Soldiers of the Jet Age; Scrappy, A Boy All Alone; Trooper Bo-Peep; Cool Kragg; The Early Days of...; The Voice That Ran the Rangers; Out of the Ice He Came; Slave of the Ring
• #3: Starts: Inspector Bonehead
• #6: Ends: Soldiers of the Jet Age ends (will return in #13)
• #7: Starts: Follow that Man
• #12: Ends: Follow That Man; Out of the Ice He Came
• #13: Starts: The Clutching Hand; Returns: Soldiers of the Jet Age; Ends: Cool Kragg
• #14: Starts: Trainer McReddy; Ends: Trooper Bo-Peep; Inspector Bonehead (will return in #29)
• #15: Starts: Johnny Modesty; The Man from USH
• #16: Ends: The Voice That Ran the Rangers
• #17: Starts: Sweeper Swann
• #22: Starts: Flash Harry; Ends: Slave of the Ring
• #23: Starts: Billy Cinders; Ends: Soldiers of the Jet Age (will return in #41)
• #24: Starts: Keeper of the Sword
• #25: Ends: The Clutching Hand (will return as Return of the Clutching Hand in #55)
• #26: Starts: The Crimson Claw; One-shot: Billy Blunder (will return in #32)
• #28: Ends: Man from USH
• #29: Returns: Inspector Bonehead
• #30: Ends: Scrappy (will return in #90); Trainer McReddy; Skips this issue: Flash Harry
• #31: Starts: The Place of the Fights; Striker Bell
• #32: Returns: Billy Blunder; Ends: Sweeper Swann; Flash Harry (will return in #79)
• #33: One-Shot: The Frozen Footballers; Ends: Keeper of the Sword; Johnny Modesty (returns in #152); Billy Cinders; The Place of the Fights (will return in #68); Inspector Bonehead (will return in #46)
• #34: Starts: Bradley's Bowmen; Doc Croc; Poor Joe Young; Lost Boy of Redman's Rock
• #35: Starts: Waif of the Speedway; Stories of Stanton Town; Skips this issue: Billy Blunder
• #36: Ends: Billy Blunder (will return in #44)
• #40: Ends: The Crimson Claw: Skips this issue: Stories of Stanton Town
• #41: Returns: Soldiers of the Jet Age; Ends: Striker Bell
• #42: Starts: Here Comes Whack!; Skips this issue: Stories of Stanton Town
• #44: Returns: Billy Blunder
• #45: Ends: Bradley's Bowmen; Billy Blunder (will return in #50)
• #46: Starts: Mulligan's Misfits; Returns: Inspector Bonehead; Last issue of 1970

First Posted: 01/05/2024
Last updated: 01/05/2024

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