Michael "Mick" Anglo was a British comic book writer, editor

Editor

The term editor may refer to:As a person who does editing:* Editor in chief, having final responsibility for a publication's operations and policies* Copy editing, making formatting changes and other improvements to text...

 and artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

, as well as an author. He is best known for creating the superhero Marvelman

Marvelman

Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American...

, later known as Miracleman.

Biography

Born in Bow, London

Bow, London

Bow is an area of London, England, United Kingdom in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End.-Bridges at Bowe:...

, Mick Anglo was educated at the Central Foundation School and John Cass Art School, both in London. On leaving school he freelanced in fashion and commercial art until 1939, and first drew cartoons for SEAC, the official army newspaper for South East Asia Command

South East Asia Command

South East Asia Command was the body set up to be in overall charge of Allied operations in the South-East Asian Theatre during World War II.-Background:...

 in 1942, then for newspapers in Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 in 1945. After completing his National Service

National service

National service is a common name for mandatory government service programmes . The term became common British usage during and for some years following the Second World War. Many young people spent one or more years in such programmes...

, he became an author for a small publishing company, Martin and Reid, producing westerns, romance books

Romance novel

The romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. Novels in this genre place their primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending." Through the late...

 and crime thrillers

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

 with titles such as "Guns & Gamblers", "My Gun Speaks For Me"/"Muscles For Hire" (1951), and "Broadway Glamour", under the pen-name Johnny Dekker. He also drew a small number of short humorous comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

s for the publisher John Matthew during 1946, and for two other companies, Rayburn and A. Solway in 1948. After illustrating the book jacket for one of his own novels, Martin and Reid suggested he developed strips for their comics line, and he worked on their comics imprint between 1948 and 1950; editing the line and writing and drawing western, adventure and science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 strips and titles. He also produced a number of one-off stories contemporaneously with his Martin and Reid work for Paget Publications, one of the smaller British comics imprints of the day; producing short run, often single issue, titles containing a number of stories. Although contributing mainly short humor strips, Anglo's creations for Paget Publications included an early British superhero, Wonderman, who appeared for 24 issues in his own title from 1948-1951.

Between 1950-1952 Anglo produced a number of strips for publisher Arnold Miller's Arnold Book Company, on stories such as "Captain Valiant" (in Space Comics) and "Ace Malloy of the Special Squadron", while concurrently producing Space Commando Comics, featuring "Space Commander Kerry," for L. Miller and Son, a major British comics company run by Arnold Miller's father, Leonard Miller and still writing novels for Martin and Reid. Early in 1954 Anglo opened his own comics production company, Gower Studios, in Gower Street, London. As "an old school editorial packager", Anglo's studio created "packets" for various publishers, usually comprising the entire content of a publication; and Mick Anglo Limited was incorporated on 21 Aug. 1954 for the purpose of Artistic and literary creation. Anglo and his staff of British artists, including Don Lawrence

Don Lawrence

Donald Southam Lawrence was a British comic book artist and author.Lawrence is best known for his comic strips The Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire in the British weeklies Ranger and Look and Learn and the Storm series, first published in the Dutch weekly Eppo...

 (who was given his first break in drawing comics by Anglo), Bob Monkhouse

Bob Monkhouse

Robert Alan "Bob" Monkhouse, OBE was an English entertainer. He was a successful comedy writer, comedian and actor and was also well known on British television as a presenter and game show host...

, Denis Gifford

Denis Gifford

Denis Gifford was a British writer. He specialized in the history of popular entertainments such as comic books and horror films...

, Ron Embleton

Ron Embleton

Ronald Sydney Embleton was a British comics artist and illustrator whose work was much admired by fans and editors alike...

 and George Stokes, had a hand in the creation of many British independent comic books and magazines between 1954 and 1963. "I employed a pretty large staff of freelancers: scriptwriters and artists. Most of the artists had just come out of the Forces, and were looking for something to do".

In 1954 Anglo created the character he is best known for, Marvelman

Marvelman

Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American...

. Since the mid-1940s L. Miller and Son had successfully reprinted American comic book

American comic book

An American comic book is a small magazine originating in the United States and containing a narrative in the form of comics. Since 1975 the dimensions have standardized at 6 5/8" x 10 ¼" , down from 6 ¾" x 10 ¼" in the Silver Age, although larger formats appeared in the past...

 company Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics

Fawcett Comics, a division of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful comic book publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s...

' Captain Marvel

Captain Marvel (DC Comics)

Captain Marvel is a fictional comic book superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. Created in 1939 by artist C. C. Beck and writer Bill Parker, the character first appeared in Whiz Comics #2...

, Mary Marvel

Mary Marvel

Mary Marvel is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine, originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics. Created by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze, she first appeared in Captain Marvel Adventures #18 in...

, and Captain Marvel Jr stories in the U.K. However, in 1953 Fawcett were party to a protracted lawsuit brought by National Comics (now DC Comics

DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...

) claiming plagiarism of their Superman

Superman

Superman is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in publications by DC Comics, widely considered to be an American cultural icon. Created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian-born American artist Joe Shuster in 1932 while both were living in Cleveland, Ohio, and sold to Detective...

 character. Fawcett cancelled their Captain Marvel titles, leaving Leonard Miller without reprint material for their best-selling British titles. Miller approached Mick Anglo to create an replacement; "One day Leonard Miller phoned and said he wanted to see me urgently. His supply of the American material for the Captain Marvel series had suddenly been cut off. Had I any ideas? ... So I quickly told him I had plenty of ideas, and for my trouble I received a regular supply of work for the next six years." Anglo replaced the Captain Marvel family with almost identical characters, Marvelman, Young Marvelman

Young Miracleman

Young Marvelman is a fictional comic book character appearing in Marvelman. The character was created by Mick Anglo and first appeared in Marvelman #101 published in July 1955. He is the alter-ego of Dickie Dauntless. and transformed into superhuman form by saying the word "Marvelman"...

, and Kid Marvelman

Kid Marvelman

Kid Marvelman, later known as Kid Miracleman, is a fictional comic book character appearing in Marvelman. In 2009, Kid Miracleman was ranked as IGN's 26th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.-History:...

. In the six years between the relaunch of Captain Marvel Adventures as Marvelman from issue #25 (February 3, 1954) and Anglo leaving L. Miller in 1960, he was responsible for scripting 736 issues of Marvelman, Marvelman Family and Young Marvelman the "best-loved and best-known British superhero" and the longest-running British superhero. Gaining further mileage from the Marvelman material, in 1954 Anglo wrote one issue of Captain Universe for Arnold Books, a near-identical character to Captain Marvel and Marvelman.

As well as the Marvelman family of titles, in the mid-1950s Anglo took over a number of L. Miller's established American reprint titles, continuing the series Jim Bowie

Jim Bowie

James "Jim" Bowie , a 19th-century American pioneer, slave trader, land speculator, and soldier, played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution, culminating in his death at the Battle of the Alamo...

, Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley

Annie Oakley , born Phoebe Ann Mosey, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar.Oakley's most famous trick is perhaps...

, and Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett

David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...

 utilising both the English artists from his studios and a number of Spanish artists. In 1960 Anglo left Miller and the Marvelman and Young Marvelman titles went into reprint soon after for the last three years of their runs. He set up his own Anglo Comics imprint title from Gower Studios, launching Captain Miracle, a title which utilised Marvelman reprints with changes to the artwork; Battle, Gunhawks Western and TV Features, the last of which contained reprints of material produced by the Studio for L. Miller. None of the titles lasted more than 10 monthly issues between October 1960 and June 1961; after which Anglo Comics folded. Anglo next adapted three stories by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...

, Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 and Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins

William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...

 for the British Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated

Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies...

 imprint of publishers Thorpe and Porter, a company for which he also devised a number of 68-page hardback annuals

Annual publication

An annual publication, more often called simply an annual, is a book or a magazine, comic book or comic strip published yearly. For example, a weekly or monthly publication may produce an Annual featuring similar materials to the regular publication....

 based on television series The Avengers

The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...

, Charles Rand, and Danger Man

Danger Man

Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...

.

During 1965-1966, Anglo produced thirteen issues of Miracle Man for Top Sellers publishers - a further revamp of the Captain Miracle stories from 1960, which had in turn been altered Marvelman stories. Also in 1966, Anglo was approached by John Spencer & Co, a company that had produced crime and western books since the 1940s, latterly under the sobriquet Badger Books

Badger Books

Badger Books was an imprint used by the British publisher John Spencer & Co. between 1960 and 1967. Badger Books were published in a number of genres, predominantly war, westerns, romance, supernatural and science fiction...

, to launch a series of comics. Four titles appeared in 1966, Fantasy Stories, Macabre Stories, Spectre Stories and Strange Stories, featuring, among other stories, a number of reworked strips by Gower Studios artists Ron Embleton and Bill Merrill, Spaceman (originally produced for Gould/Norman Light Publishing). With low production values, the John Spencer titles were not a success, and all folded within the year after six issues.

During 1967 Anglo edited City Magazines Ltd's TV series-based weekly comic TV Tornado, and contributed the short-run strips Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and Green Hornet, before returning to Top Sellers and packaging reprints of DC Comics material, including Superman, Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is a DC Comics superheroine created by William Moulton Marston. She first appeared in All Star Comics #8 . The Wonder Woman title has been published by DC Comics almost continuously except for a brief hiatus in 1986....

 and the Batman

Batman

Batman is a fictional character created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. A comic book superhero, Batman first appeared in Detective Comics #27 , and since then has appeared primarily in publications by DC Comics...

 newspaper strip, for their Super DC anthology series in 1969/1970. Anglo then worked on the weekly Look & Cook magazine in the late 1960s, co-wrote a small number of cookery books, and was a joke writer for comedian Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper

Thomas Frederick "Tommy" Cooper was a very popular British prop comedian and magician from Caerphilly, Wales.Cooper was a member of The Magic Circle, and respected by traditional magicians...

. He has also written a series of nostalgic books looking back at the decades from the 1930s-1950s, with a companion duo of quiz books, a book about Victorian magazines, "Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful

A penny dreadful was a type of British fiction publication in the 19th century that usually featured lurid serial stories appearing in parts over a number of weeks, each part costing an penny...

s and other Victorian Horrors", and one on cannibalism, "Man Eats Man: The Story of Cannibalism", together with a small number of stories or features for Fleetway

Fleetway

Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a UK publishing company which mainly produced comic magazines. For a time owned by IPC Media, they are now a division of Egmont Publishing....

/IPC

IPC Media

IPC Media , a wholly owned subsidiary of Time Inc., is a consumer magazine and digital publisher in the United Kingdom, with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year.- Origins :...

's war comics

War comics

War comics is a genre of comic books that gained popularity in English-speaking countries following World War II.-American war comics:Shortly after the birth of the modern comic book in the mid- to late 1930s, comics publishers began including stories of wartime adventures in the multi-genre...

 output between 1979–1983, before retiring during the 1980s.

Marvelman/Miracleman revivals

Anglo had little to do with the revival of the Marvelman character in 1982 by Alan Moore

Alan Moore

Alan Oswald Moore is an English writer primarily known for his work in comic books, a medium where he has produced a number of critically acclaimed and popular series, including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell...

 for Quality Communications

Quality Communications

Quality Communications is a British publishing company founded by Dez Skinn in 1982. Quality was initially formed to publish the award-winning monthly comics anthology Warrior. The company has been involved with comics in both the UK and the U.S., mainly with reprint material from Warrior and...

. Dez Skinn

Dez Skinn

Derek "Dez" Skinn is a British comic and magazine editor, and author of a number of books on comics. As head of Marvel Comics' operations in England in the late 1970s, Skinn reformatted existing titles, launched new ones, and acquired the BBC license for Doctor Who Weekly...

, the editor of Warrior, in which the revived series appeared, said "He wasn't crazy about our revamp, but he really didn't care either way." Eventually the Marvelman revival was terminated after legal threats from Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics

Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...

 over Quality Communications Marvelman Special (June 1984), which was composed of Marvelman reprints from the L. Miller days, and Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market...

 publishing of the stories, renamed Miracleman, for the American market. The character became "mired in a legal quagmire" for 25 years, preventing further reprint or new character development opportunities. The situation was not helped by ownership doubts, not clarified by Anglo's contractual relationship to L. Miller and Son and their status as a company.

Eventually, in 2009, Marvel Comics purchased the rights to Marvelman from Mick Anglo, together with the rights for the 1980s Miracleman revival. having established that Anglo owned the rights to the character. Alan Moore is on record as saying that "I'm very happy for this book to get published — because that means money will finally go to Marvelman’s creator, Mick Anglo, and to his wife ... The main thing is that I will feel happy to know that Mick Anglo is finally getting the recompense he so richly deserves."

Marvel Comics press release at the time quoted Marvel CEO and publisher Dan Buckley

Dan Buckley

Dan Buckley is the publisher of Marvel Comics and the chief operating officer of Marvel Entertainment's publishing division. -External links:...

 as saying "It is an honor to work with Mick Anglo to bring his creation to a larger audience than ever before." The press release quotes Mick Anglo as saying, "I did not think it would ever happen. It's a wonderful thing to see my creation finally back." Marvel have since announced that the first release of Marvelman material under their imprint is Marvelman Classic Primer #1a in June 2010, featuring an interview with Mick Anglo at 93, and a cover drawn by him; which will be followed by reprints of the L. Miller Marvelman stories in chronological order.

Anglo

Comics

The following is an incomplete list of those stories/comics known to have been written, drawn or edited by Mick Anglo:

• "Ace High" (The Sheriff and Elmo's Own #2, Screen Stories Publications, 1949)
• "Ace High, Special Investigator" (Merry-Go-Round #5, Martin and Reid, 1947)
• "Ace Malloy of the Special Squadron" #50-65? (Arnold Books, 1950-1952?)
• "Alfie the Elfin" (Paget's Bumper Tot's Comic, Paget Publications, 1950)
• "Andy the Office Boy" (Jolly Chuckles #6, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• "Arresto" (Happy Yank #1, Rayburn 1948)
• The Avengers
  The Avengers (TV series)
  The Avengers is a spy-fi British television series set in the 1960s Britain. The Avengers initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed . Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants...
  
   (Thorpe and Porter, 1966) 68 page TV tie-in annual
• "Barney Clouter" (Happy Yank #1, Rayburn 1948)
• Battle #1-9 (Anglo Features, Nov 1960-July 1961)
• "Bilbo" (All-Fun Comics v6#3, Soloway, 1948)
• "Boyo" (Paget's Spree Comics, Paget Publications, 1948)
• "Brace Morgan" (The Pioneer Western Comic, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Buffalo Bill
  Buffalo Bill
  William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody was a United States soldier, bison hunter and showman. He was born in the Iowa Territory , in LeClaire but lived several years in Canada before his family moved to the Kansas Territory. Buffalo Bill received the Medal of Honor in 1872 for service to the US...
  
  " (The Pioneer Western Comic, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "The Candy Kid" (Squibs Fun Comic, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "The Canterville Ghost" (Classics Illustrated
  Classics Illustrated
  Classics Illustrated is a comic book series featuring adaptations of literary classics such as Moby Dick, Hamlet, and The Iliad. Created by Albert Kanter, the series began publication in 1941 and finished its first run in 1971, producing 169 issues. Following the series' demise, various companies...
  
   #150, UK Edition, 1962) adaptation of Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Wilde
  Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...
  
   story
• "Cap'n Scamp and Flamper" (The Comic Wonder #2, Paget Publications, 1948) (reprinted in The Pagent Pinnacle Comic, Paget Publications 1949)
• "Captain Justice" (Dynamic, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Captain Miracle" #1-9 (Anglo Comics, 1960–1961) editor/artist (redrawn Marvelman stories)
• "Captain Savage" (The Windjammer, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• Captain Zenith (Martin and Reid, 1950) editor/artist
• Cartoon Capers Comic (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Charles Cole's Magic Chalks" (Captain Zenith, Martin and Reid, 1950) (Power Comic, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• Charles Rand (Thorpe and Porter, 1966) 68 page TV tie-in annual
• "Chuck Chance" (Power Comics, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Colonel Braggs" (The Paget Plus Comic, Paget Publications, 1948)
• "Colonel Jodhpur" (Merry-Go-Round #5, 1947, Martin and Reid)
• The Comic Ledger (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Crackey" (Merry-Go-Round #5, Martin and Reid, 1947)
• "Dan Druff" (The Paget Pageant Comic, Paget Publications, 1948) (The Paget Prince of Comics, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Danger Inc" (Jolly Adventures #4, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• Danger Man
  Danger Man
  Danger Man is a British television series that was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the program and wrote many of the scripts...
  
   (Thorpe and Porter, 1966) 68 page TV tie-in annual
• "The Dangermen" (Battle Picture Weekly 15 Sept.1979-?, Fleetway/IPC)
• Davy Crockett
  Davy Crockett
  David "Davy" Crockett was a celebrated 19th century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S...
  
   #1-50 (L. Miller, 1956–1960)
• "The Dead Men of Calais" (Battle Picture Library #1583, Fleetway/IPC, 1983)
• "Dick and Flick" (Funny Tuppence #2, John Matthew, 1947)
• "Doc Quacker" (The Comic Ledger, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Dr. Knewall (Happy Yank #1, Rayburn, 1948)
• Fantasy Stories 1-6? (John Spencer, 1966) editor/artist
• "Fido" (The Paget Prince of Comics, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Frosh" (The Comic Wonder #7, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Froshy" (Amazing Comics, Modern Fiction, 1949)
• "Fun and Larks at St. Narks" (The Premier #5, Paget Publications, 1948)
• The Funfair Comic (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• The Funstar Comic (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Gail Garrity" (Dynamic, Paget Publications, 1949) (Oh Boy! and Wonderman #22, Paget Publications, 1951)
• "Glup" (The Premier #7, Paget Publications, 1948)
• "The Gold Bug" (Classics Illustrated #84, UK Edition, 1962) adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe
  Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
  
   story
• "Good Deed Gus" (The Paget Parade Comic, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Green Hornet" (T.V. Tornado #7-17, #19, City Magazines Ltd, 1967)
• "Grey Fowl" (Merry-Go-Round #5, Martin and Reid, 1947)
• "Gunhawks Western" #1-10 (Anglo Comics, 1960–1961) editor
• "Gusher" (The Outpost Adventure Comic, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Gypsey Doodle" (Merry-Go-Round #5, Martin and Reid, 1947)
• "Hank Riley" (Happy Yank #1, Rayburn, 1948)
• "Harmless Horace" (The Comics Wonder #2, 1948)
• "Happy Joe" (The Paget Plus Comic, Paget Publications, 1948)
• Happy Yank #1-3 (Rayburn, 1948) editor/artist
• "Indian Justice" (The Pioneer Western Comic #2, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Jesse James
  Jesse James
  Jesse Woodson James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. He also faked his own death and was known as J.M James. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a legendary...
  
  " (Jolly Western, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• "Johnny Jules" (The Windjammer, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Johnny Tiddler" (Paget's Bumper Tot's Comic, Paget Publications, 1950)
• Jolly Western #5-9 (Martin and Reid, 1948–49) editor/artist
• "Kamba the Jungle Boy" (The Pioneer Western Comic, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Ken Dale" (The Scoop Western, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Kid Kelly" (The Windjammer, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Killer Miller" (Jolly Western #6, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• Kit Marain (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Koko the Clown" (Happy Moments #1, John Matthew, 1946)
• "Konga" (Cartoons Capers Comic, Martin and Reid, 1949) (The Rancher, Martin and Reid, 1949) (The Outpost Adventure Comic, Martin and Reid, 1951)
• "Lance Riordan" (Captain Zenith, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• The Lariat (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Lejeune of the Legion" (The Outpost Adventure Comic, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Les North" (The Rancher, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Little Clancy" (Paget's Bumper Tot's Comic, Paget Publications, 1950)
• "Little Tich and Tichy" (The Premier #6, Paget Publications, 1948)
• Macabre Stories
• "Mac Riordan (The Lariat, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Malu" (The Windjammer Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Marji the Jungle Girl" (The Lariat, Martin and Reid, 1949) (The Scoop Western, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Malloy of the Mounties" (Captain Zenith, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Marlowe of the Mounties" (The Pioneer Western Comic, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Marmaduke" (Jolly Chuckles #5, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• "Marshal Zenith" (The Rancher, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Martin Power" (Power Comics, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• Marvelman
  Marvelman
  Marvelman, also known as Miracleman for trademark reasons in his American reprints and story continuation, is a fictional comic book superhero created in 1954 by writer-artist Mick Anglo for publisher L. Miller & Son. Originally intended as a United Kingdom home-grown substitute for the American...
  
   #25-370 (L. Miller, 03.02.1954-Feb 1963) numbering continued from Captain Marvel
• Marvelman Adventures (annual) (L. Miller, 1961, 1963)
• Marvelman Annual (L. Miller, 1954–1960)
• Marvelman Family #1-30 (L. Miller, Oct 1956-Nov 1959)
• Marvelman Family Album (L. Miller, 1963)
• Marvelman Jnr Album (L. Miller, 1963)
• Merry-Go-Round (Martin and Reid, 1946–1949) artist #2-8, 10 editor #13-14
• "Meyer" (The Premier #7, 1948) (The Paget Pinnacle Comics, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Mick Jordan, Space Investigator" (Merry-Go-Round #4, Martin and Reid, 1947)
• Mick Martin (Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Mike" (Paget's Snips, Paget Publications, 1948)
• Mick Martin (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• Miracle Man #1-13 (Top Sellers, 1965) redrawn Marvelman stories
• Monte Hall Western #106 (L. Miller, 1957?) cover artist
• "Mystery at the Farm" (The Pioneer Western Comic, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Nights of Terror" (Classics Illustrated #148, UK Edition, 1962) adaptation of Wilkie Collins
  Wilkie Collins
  William Wilkie Collins was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. He was very popular during the Victorian era and wrote 30 novels, more than 60 short stories, 14 plays, and over 100 non-fiction pieces...
  
   story
• "Nip McGee (Wonderman, Paget Publications, 1948) (Oh Boy! and Wonderman, Paget Publications, #22, 1951)
• "Norman Harper" (The Funstar Comic, Martin and Reid, 1949) (Wonderman #20, Paget Publications, 1950)
• "Ocean Capers" (Paget's Spree Comics, Paget Publications, 1948) (The Premier #7, Paget Publications, 1948)
• "Oh, What a Lovely War" (Battle Picture Weekly 28 April 1979-8 Sept. 1979, Fleetway/IPC)
• "The Old Soldier" (Battle Picture Library #1364, Fleetway/IPC, 1980)
• "P.C. Percy" (The Paget Picnic Comic, Paget Publications, 1949)
• "Police Patrol" (Power Comics, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Potty the Professor" (The Paget Plus Comic, Paget Publications, 1948)
• Power Comic (Martin and Reid, 1950) editor/artist
• The Rancher (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• Rangeland Western (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Razzan" (All-Fun Comics v6#3, A Soloway, 1948)
• "Rex Valiant, Atomic Avenger" (Merry-Go-Round #4, Martin and Reid, 1947)
• *"Rip Cord" (Jolly Adventures #4, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• "Rockbottom and Pancake" (Comic Capers v6#4, A Soloway, 1948)
• "Rodeo" (The Sheriff and Elmo's Own #2, Screen Stories Publications, 1949)
• "Roy the Office Boy" (Paget's Gusto, Paget Publications, 1948)
• "Rub and Dub" (Happy Moments #1, John Matthew, 1946)
• "Sam King" (The Lariat, Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Secret Agent Joe" (Happy Moments #1, John Matthew, 1946)
• "Sheriff Johnny Dennis" (The Sheriff and Elmo's Own #3, Screen Stories Publications, 1949)
• "Sky Devils" (Battle Picture Library #1427, Fleetway/IPC, 1980)
• "Sleepy Town" (The Comic Wonder #3, Paget Publications 1948)
• "Soapy Sam" (Happy Moments #1, John Matthew, 1946)
• Space Commander Kerry #50-55 (L. Miller 1953)
• "Space Commander Kerry" (Space Commando Comics #50-59, L. Miller, 1953–1954)
• "Sparky Malone" (Space Commando Comics, L. Miller, 1953–1954)
• Spectre Stories 1-6 (John Spencer, 1966)
• Squibs Fun Comic (Martin and Reid, 1949) editor/artist
• "Stone-Age Pete" (All-Fun Comics v6#4, A Soloway, 1948)
• Strange Stories 1-6 (John Spencer, 1966) editor
• Super DC #1-14 (Top Sellers, June 1969 - July 1970) editor
• Super DC Bumper Book (Top Sellers, 1970) editor
• "Syd Smart and Sonny" (Happy Yank #1, Rayburn, 1948)
• "Tancy the Terror" (Happy Yank #3, Rayburn, 1949)
• "Tex Reno" (Cartoon Capers Comics, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Texas Kid" (Happy Yank #1, Rayburn, 1948)
• "Texas Ranger" (Rangeland Western, Martin and Reid, 1949)
• "Timpo Tim" (The Pioneer Western Comic #1-2, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Tony West" (The Pioneer Western Comic, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Tornado" #5-12 (Oh Boy! Comics, Paget Publications, 1949–50)
• "Trigger Lee" (Wonderman 1948) (Oh Boy! Comics #16, Paget Publications, 1950)
• "True Life Heroes" (Battle Picture Weekly 27 Jan. 1979, 10 Feb. 1979, 24 March 1979, Fleetway/IPC)
• TV Features (Anglo Features, 1960–61) editor/artist
• TV Tornado #1-88 (City Magazines Ltd/World Distributors (Holdings) Ltd, 1967–68) editor. Titled 'TV Tornado and Solo' #37-45
• "Vasco Kid" (Jolly Western #6, Martin and Reid, 1948) (The Outpost Adventure Comic, Martin and Reid, 1950) (The Scoop Western Martin and Reid, 1950)
• "Vik the Viking" (Happy Moments #1, John Matthew, 1946)
• "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (T.V. Tornado #1-6, City Magazines Ltd, 1967)
• "Wally Wolf" (Paget's Bumper Tot's Comic, Paget Publications, 1950)
• "Wild Bill Hickok
  Wild Bill Hickok
  James Butler Hickok , better known as Wild Bill Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West. His skills as a gunfighter and scout, along with his reputation as a lawman, provided the basis for his fame, although some of his exploits are fictionalized.Hickok came to the West as a stagecoach...
  
  " (The Pioneer Western Comic #2, Wyndham House, 1950)
• "Willy Wong (Happy Yank #2, Rayburn 1948) (Merry Moments #1, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• The Windjammer (Martin and Reid, 1950) editor/artist
• "Wonderman" #1-24 (Wonderman, 1948–1951, Paget Publications) titled 'Oh Boy! and Wonderman' for issue #22 only
• "Wye Wait" (Happy Moments #1, John Matthew, 1946)
• "Young Sammy" (The Funfair Comic, Philmar, 1949)
• Young Marvelman
  Young Miracleman
  Young Marvelman is a fictional comic book character appearing in Marvelman. The character was created by Mick Anglo and first appeared in Marvelman #101 published in July 1955. He is the alter-ego of Dickie Dauntless. and transformed into superhuman form by saying the word "Marvelman"...
  
  #25-370 (L. Miller, Feb 1954-Feb 1963) numbering continued from Captain Marvel Jnr.
• Young Marvelman Annual (L. Miller, 1954–1960)
• Young Marvelman Adventures (L. Miller, 1961) annual
• "Zig Wig" (Paget's Bumper Tot's Comic, Paget Publications, 1950)
• "Zip Leroy" (Jolly Adventures #4, Martin and Reid, 1948)
• "Zomby" (The Paget Parade Comic, Paget Publications, 1949)

Books

• International Restaurant Cuisine, Rasmussen, Janet and Anglo, Michael (World Distributors (Manchester) Limited, 1973) ISBN 0723505888
• Man Eats Man: The Story of Cannibalism, Anglo, Michael (Jupiter, 1979) ISBN 090404176x
• Penny Dreadfuls and other Victorian Horrors, Anglo, Michael (Jupiter, 1977) ISBN 090404159X
• Nostalgia - the 1920s (Jupiter Books)
• Nostalgia - The 1930s (Jupiter Books)
• Nostalgia - the 1940s (Jupiter Books)
• Nostalgia - the 1950s (Jupiter Books)
• The Forties Quiz Book (New English Library, 1978) ISBN 0450038416
• The Thirties Quiz Book (New English Library, 1978) ISBN 0450038408