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In 1960 he moved to TV Express, where he drew TV tie-ins "No Hiding Place" and "Biggles", the latter in colour. In 1962 he began drawing for Buster, including "The Leopard from Lime Street", on which his pencils were inked by Bradbury, "When Britain Froze", "World in Peril", and "The Star of Fortune". The same year he joined the newly launched Valiant, a title he would be associated with for the next thirteen years. One of his most notable strips there was "The Wild Wonders", written by Tom Tully, about a pair of wild boys, brought up by animals, who turn out to be fantastic athletes, for which he used a semi-cartoony style which was much imitated. Other strips he worked on included "Jack O' Justice" and "The Duke of Dry Gulch". Valiant featured covers on historical topics, and Western dre

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  • In 1960 he moved to TV Express, where he drew TV tie-ins "No Hiding Place" and "Biggles", the latter in colour. In 1962 he began drawing for Buster, including "The Leopard from Lime Street", on which his pencils were inked by Bradbury, "When Britain Froze", "World in Peril", and "The Star of Fortune". The same year he joined the newly launched Valiant, a title he would be associated with for the next thirteen years. One of his most notable strips there was "The Wild Wonders", written by Tom Tully, about a pair of wild boys, brought up by animals, who turn out to be fantastic athletes, for which he used a semi-cartoony style which was much imitated. Other strips he worked on included "Jack O' Justice" and "The Duke of Dry Gulch". Valiant featured covers on historical topics, and Western dre
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  • In 1960 he moved to TV Express, where he drew TV tie-ins "No Hiding Place" and "Biggles", the latter in colour. In 1962 he began drawing for Buster, including "The Leopard from Lime Street", on which his pencils were inked by Bradbury, "When Britain Froze", "World in Peril", and "The Star of Fortune". The same year he joined the newly launched Valiant, a title he would be associated with for the next thirteen years. One of his most notable strips there was "The Wild Wonders", written by Tom Tully, about a pair of wild boys, brought up by animals, who turn out to be fantastic athletes, for which he used a semi-cartoony style which was much imitated. Other strips he worked on included "Jack O' Justice" and "The Duke of Dry Gulch". Valiant featured covers on historical topics, and Western drew over 500 of these. After Valiant folded in 1975, he moved to Battle Picture Weekly, where he reverted to a grittier style and drew John Wagner's "Darkie's Mob" and "HMS Nightshade", as well as "The Sarge" and Tully's "The Team That Went to War". He did some work in romance comics, but was not comfortable there, and drew two covers for 2000 AD in 1977 and 1981. He drew "Baker's Half Dozen" for short-lived sports title Speed in 1980, then "Topps on Two Wheels" and "Golden Boy" for Tiger, and "Computer Warrior", "The Hard Men", "Shadow" and "The Avenger" for the relaunched Eagle. He drew "Billy's Boots" for Scorcher and Roy of the Rovers for four years, as well as the Roy of the Rovers daily strip in the Daily Star in 1992-93. He then retired from comics, with the exception of a strip in a theatre magazine in 1997-2000, and concentrated on painting and magazine illustration. He died in 2008, aged 83, having been confined to bed for a few months following a heart attack and a stroke.
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