Category Archives: Prisoner

TV Tornado Comic No 40 Tarzan Cover

1960’s children’s comic. Features both text and strip stories relating to many classic TV series of the period.

Issue 40 October 14th, 1967.
Featured in this issue:
The Saint in “Curse of the Betrayed”
Man from U.N.C.L.E. in “The Catacombs Affair”
The Mysterons (From Captain Scarlet)
The Lone Ranger “Gold Town Trouble” pt1
Tarzan “Jungle captive”.
Half Page article on “Patrick McGoohan : TV’s Prisoner”
Original Price 6d

Television Stars Book Circa 1967

This Television star book is a veritable who’s who of TV stars of the year containing photographs or features off or on: The Saint, I Spy, Batman, The Man and Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Emergency Ward 10, The Human Jungle, The Munsters, The Power Game, The Avengers, The FBI (This is of interest to 77 Sunset strip fans as it is about Efrem Zibalist Jnr who stared in that), Take your Pick, Double your Money, The Prisoner, Morecambe and Wise (This features a photograph of Sean Connery visiting the lads on set), Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Bonanza, Honey West, Dr Finlay’s Casebook, The Baron, The Big Valley, T.H.E. Cat, Peyton place, Man in a suitcase, Public Eye, Lost in Space, The Virginian, Daktari, Get Smart, The Fugitive, No Hiding Place, Redcap.

There are several books or annuals of this type in the collection, but none have quite as an impressive selection of so many of this type of Cult TV show within their pages.

Published by Purnell & Sons ltd, no year is given but given the contents this has to be from around 1967.

TV Tornado Comic No 15

1960’s children’s comic. Features both text and strip stories relating to many classic TV series of the period.
The Saint strip story “The Informer”.
A text story for the Man from U.N.C.L.E. “The Medicine Hat Affair”.
A Green Hornet strip story “Appointment with Vengeance”.
Tarzan strip story “Valley Battle”
The Lone Ranger strip story “The Stolen Stallion”
Star spot features Patrick McGoohan, Dangerman, The Prisoner.
The Invaders text story “Flames of Fury”.
Original Price 6d

 

Prisoner Comics

A set of 4 comics was produced by DC comics in the USA  published in the late eighties , early nineties. This was set many years after the original series and a saw a now  deserted and derelict village.