Wizard (1973)

Publisher: D.C. Thomson

Strips continuing from previous year: Follow That Man; Hoodoo on the Rangers; Madoc of the Mountains; Raiders of the Shifting Sands; Run for Your Life; The Shiny Ninth;  South of Cataract 5; There Was a Soldier

Strips returning from previous years: The Early Days of...; Huck McFee, Outcast of the Tomahawk Trail; Inspector Bonehead; Johnny Modesty

Strips that transferred over from the Rover: The Boyhood of Bernard Briggs; Braddock VC; Jake Jeffords; Morgyn the Mighty; one-shot text tales; Wolf of Kabul; Wonder Man

Strips that Debuted in 1973: Barnaby Bear; Cast-Iron Bill; Cool Callaghan; The Coral Island; Corn Cob for Champ; Corn Cob McGreedy; The Crimson Crocodile; Digby's Deadbeats; First Top Hat in the West; The Frightened Champion; Grappler from Great Tor; He Was Only a Private Soldier; Keep 'em Moving!; The Lancers from the Lost Valley; Longlegs, the Desert Wild Boy; The Man from No-Man's Land; The Monsters from Wave Rock; The Mystery Striker; Outback Billy; ... Patrol; Paul of the Tall Pines; Payne's Pioneers; Phantom of the Stadium; Run Paul, - Run; Send for the Equaliser; The 13 Quests of John Landon; Tiger McTaggart; Wandering Walter; When the Green Mists Came; The White Hand; Wiz the Whizz

Comments: Thirty new series debuted in 1973, and six came over from the Rover, which Wizard absorbed on January 20th, the third issue of the year (#154). With the merger the comic was retitled Wizard and Rover; one minor consequence of this merger was that the comic stopped numbering its issues. The title change didn't last long, with the comic reverting to being just The Wizard only eight issues later (unnumbered #161). A longer lasting change was the introduction of one-off text stories that dominated the cover spot, with other, ongoing series only rarely getting that coveted position. 

First Posted: 24/04/2024
Last updated: 24/04/2024

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