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In the link to Fozzers post about pilot James Lacey ("A blast from the past") there's a reference to "Biggles adventure books".

So the flashbacks kicked in:

There's a line in Jethro Tull's 'Thick As a Brick' that I've always wondered about, strange, because I usually didn't give a hoot back then about meaning or whatever behind lyrics:

"Where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?"

So here's the mystery solved:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggles

About 100 books total.

And if you Google 'Biggles adventure books', you can see a bunch of covers.

And here also:

http://www.biggles.info/

But they're not comic book formats, they're stories with B/W illustrations & some color picts.

http://www.biggles.info/Details/01/

The cover art is reminiscent of the Classics Illustrated comics, many of which are now available free online, but I can't find any free Biggles books.

Our British friends probably already know/knew this, but it's news to me.

Thanks for that post, Foz.

Cheers!

Apex wrote:In the link to Fozzers post about pilot James Lacey ("A blast from the past") there's a reference to "Biggles adventure books".



Our British friends probably already know/knew this, but it's news to me.

Thanks for that post, Foz.

Cheers!

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