Rocket

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Publisher: News of the World

Format: Weekly anthology

First Issue: Rocket #1 (21st May 1956)

Last Issue: Rocket #32 (24th November 1956)

Absorbed: None

Absorbed into: Express Weekly

Strips: Brick Bradford, Captain Falcon, Escape from Earth, Flash Gordon, Johnny Hazard, John Storm (translation of Piloot Storm), Professor Jack Ransom

Comments: Conceived as a challenger to the Eagle, Rocket was edited by RAF war hero Douglas Bader and featured numerous SF strips, most with a space theme, both original material and some US reprints such as Flash Gordon and Brick Bradford. It lasted only 32 issues.

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