Warlord Book for Boys 1981

by D.C. Thomson & Company Limited

Worn boards have bumped edges, gift inscription, unclipped. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1981

About the author

D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, is a publishing company based in Dundee, Scotland, best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy and Commando comics. It also owns Friends Reunited, Parragon, and the Aberdeen Journals Group which publishes the Press and Journal, the Evening Express, the Aberdeen Citizen and the North Scotland edition of ScotAds.

The company began as a branch of the Thomson family business when William Thomson became the sole proprietor of Charles Alexander & Co., publishers of Dundee Courier and Daily Argus. In 1884, David Coupar Thomson took over the publishing business, and established it as DC Thomson in 1905. The firm flourished, and took its place as the third J in the "Three Js", the traditional summary of Dundee industry ('jam, jute and journalism'). Thomson was notable for his conservatism, vigorously opposing the introduction of trade unions into his workforce, and for refusing to employ Catholics.

Reviews

[Rodney Sloan]

Firstly, appreciate it as an object of its time and place. I doubt you could tell these types of stories in the same way today. However, the art is still great, and the range of stories makes up for the few forced tales. Well worth having in any Warlord collection.

[John Davies · Rating 5 out of 5]

I never read Warlord as a kid, but since joining a Facebook group for the comic I *DID* read, Battle Picture Weekly, I've read several good things about these comics. I managed to pick up the complete Warlord Annuals set and so I'm slowly working my war through them.

Featuring Codename: Warlord, Union Jack Jackson, Killer Kane, Kampfgruppe Falken, Iron Annie, and many others, these books remind me of my childhood..