The British are known throughout the world as an eccentric people – and if anyone peeked through a stack of typical comics from the 50s, 60 and 70s you’d find enough proof to have our island race quarantined for the safety of humankind.

No matter what your particular – or peculiar – taste, British comics has something of interest for you concealed under its many covers.

A planeload of schoolgirl ballerinas crash-landed on a mountainsideand keeping in their ballet practice just in case they get rescued in time for the grand dance off? Yes.

A town way out West – and we do mean way out – who have just elected a large ape as their sheriff? Got!

A New York King of Crime out to stop all criminals so he can be Number One in a field of one? Yeah.

A daring adventurer with a life-protecting eye around his neck out to set the world to rights? Yup.

Kids from outer space, time-travelling weirdos, talking pets, freakish football players, robot spies, historical adventurers, detective school-girls – British comics has the lot.

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