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Victor Comics.

 

The Victor comic was a British comic paper weekly by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The Victor ran for 1657 issues from 25 January 1961 until it ceased publication on 21 November 1992.

The Victor was a story paper in comic book format. It featured many stories that could be described as "Boy's Own" adventures. In particular, each week the front cover carried a story of how a medal had been won by British or Commonwealth forces during the Great War or the Second World War. One of these, from issue 15, appeared in Classics from the Comics in May 2009.

Associated with it was the annually published The Victor Book for Boys. This annual was first published in 1964, with the last edition published in 1994.

 

Please read right to the bottom and always support the Royal British Legion whenever possible,  Kelly.

 

Victor comics by D.C. Thomson & Co Ltd.

 

25-02-1961 to 21-11-1992.

 

 

Whilst trying to write a book on Topical Times Papers by D.C. Thomson, I suddenly found myself being drawn off in other directions of their work. Still attempting to finish the Topical Times book, the papers themselves have become harder to source and therefore Victor papers have taken me off on another tangent. I have become engrossed in all the D.C. Thomson merchandise, now collecting all I can afford to get my hands on.

 

This site is hoped to give a good view of the front covers of the Victor range, though so far along their format changed and it may vary slightly.

 

It is also hoped to bring out a range of pictures either in frames or as a photo form that may be hung on a wall. The picture will be taken from the front covers of the papers and would prove valuable to any War collector or indeed Collector of Victor.

 

I hope you enjoy the Site. Kelvin C. Boldero.

 

 

 

I would myself like to dedicate these few Victor pages and the site to my late father: Mr Ronald Charles Boldero. (1458047)

2RC. 12/09/41

16RC.

Stn,  West Malling. 14/11/41

Stn,  St Angelo. 13/1/42

St Angelo 2 P.D.C. 7/7/43

N.W.A.A.F. 18/7/43

983 Squadron

982 Squadron 28/2/44-8/44

983 Squadron

H.H.Q U and Force B.A.E. 1/9/44-2/44

MISSING believed POW 19/12/44 (Greece)

SAFE 31/1/45

HE. 8/2/45

Stn, Little Snoring 21/2/45

M East 14/4/45

Khartoum 29/4/45

104PDC for release 24/1/46-30x/46

 

Good conduct badges 68/45 1st a 12/9/44

 

L.A.C. 31/12/43.

 

And another old friend the late: Captain Ian Bell (British Army) and War Crimes Investigator.

Ian could well have been one of the front page stories as he was a POW several times and was interigated and had his teeth extracted with pliers in an attempt to make him speak by the Germans. He was stood in front of a firing squad, but survived.

And my dear sister Patricia, on 23rd March 2003 she along with my mother and her future son-in-law and his small daughter had a horrendous car accident. Pat was thrown through the driver's side window and ended up outside of the car, she had her teeth knocked out and was left paralysed, Neil was killed at the scene, watched by his daughter then aged 9 Nikita Marie Boldero, my mother was seriously hurt but pulled through.

Pat never complained, but spent almost 5 of her last 6 years almost completely in bed. She died of Septicaemia ironically on the 23rd March 2009, exactly 6 years to the day of the car crash. The driver of the other car, Mr Jason Harrison of Grantham was fined just £60 and given a 6 month driving ban.

 

 

One of the most famous stories written for the Victor series of comics was that of Matt Braddock, VC and bar, a fictional World War II bomber pilot who appeared in the pages of the Victor and Rover comics in the 1950s and 1960s. Some of his stories were published in book form I Flew With Braddock. The narrator of these stories was his navigator, George Bourne.

Braddock was known for his fearless nature, superb piloting skills and no-nonsense attitude. He had no time for petty rules and regulations, and remained at the rank of sergeant, refusing to be promoted to an officer rank.However this didn't stop him from standing up to incompetent superiors, or defending other enlisted men from overzealous court martials.

Braddock was so highly regarded that he had carte blanche to pick his own flight crew, and was frequently called upon to advise high ranking commanders of the RAF. Braddock flew virtually all types of aircraft, but his most prominent command was the Lancaster Bomber F. Fox.

 

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