The Wizard (D.C. Thomson)

The Wizard was launched as a weekly British story paper on 22 September 1922, published by D. C. Thomson & Co. It was merged with The Rover in November 1963, becoming Rover and Wizard. The last issue of the original Wizard was number 1,970; Rover and Wizard continued until the Wizard name was dropped in August 1969, and the paper renamed The Rover.

The Wizard was relaunched as a comic book on 14 February 1970, and continued until 10 June 1978.^[1]

Regular features

• Blazing Ace of Spades — fictional RAF fighter pilot of the Second World War
• The Q Team — an association football team assembled by the mysterious Ka
• Ruthless Ruff — fictional RFC flying ace of the Great War
• Wilson the Wonder Athlete — the sporting adventures of a heroic character named William Wilson
• Wolf of Kabul — fictional agent of the British Intelligence Corps on the North-West Frontier Province

References

1. The Wizard, British Comics, retrieved 5 July 2010

Sources

• The Wizard (1970 series) at the Grand Comics Database