Its stories were mainly historical adventure, featuring classic characters like Robin Hood, Dick Turpin and the Three Musketeers, western characters like Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok, adaptations of classic adventure novels and films, and original characters like Captain Flame, Max Bravo and Battler Britton, either originated for the title or reprinted from other AP titles like Knockout, Sun and Comet. Artists featured included D. C. Eyles, Mike Hubbard, Eric Parker and Septimus E. Scott. Its original editor was Edward Holmes, succeeded in 1952 by Leonard Matthews.