Wizard
a.k.a.: Wizard and Rover
Publisher: D.C. Thomson
Format: Weekly anthology
First Issue: Wizard#1 (14th February 1970)
Last Issue: 24th June 1978 (#437, unnumbered)
Absorbed: The Rover (as of 20th January 1973 - unnumbered #154; reverted to just being The Wizard from 10th March 1973 - unnumbered #161)
Absorbed into: Victor
Strips: The Ace of Space; Ambling Archie; Arny's Army; Away Went Kelly; The Barrow Boy from Mars; Billy Blunder; Billy Cinders; The Boy from Winter Island; Bradley's Bowmen; Breakneck Bradshaw; Cannonball Kelly; Cast-Iron Cribb; The Clutching Hand; Cocks of the Common; Cool Kragg, the Team-Maker; The Crimson Claw; Doc Croc; Dolphin of the Space Patrol; Down the Thunderhoof Trail; The Early Days of...; The Fiery Man at Number Six; Five Bullets for Idris the Cruel; Flash Harry; Flint of the Fighting Fifth; Follow That Man; Fred the Frightener; From Under the Sea They Came; The Frozen Footballers; The Gas-Bag Grenadiers; Goals from Nowhere; The Grudge Fights of Clutcher Kane; Here Comes Whack!; Humpy Bumpy, the Fighting Camel; Inspector Bonehead; Ironfist; The Jinx on Big Joe; Joe for Champ; Johnny Modesty; Johnny Winchester; Keeper of the Sword; The Killers of Kima; The Last Boy of Redman's Rock; The Last Dog Out of Dunkirk; Len, Ben and a Bren; The Lost 47 Minutes; The Lost Years of Lonely Martin; The Man from USH; March of the Mammoths; Mississippi Mickey; Mister Meek - The Tombstone Terror; The Motorbike Mountie; Muggins; Mulligan's Misfits; Old Smokey - The Ten Ton Goldmine; Out of the Ice He Came; Ossie the Wizard; The Place of the Fights; Poor Young Joe; The Red Rangers; Return of the Clutching Hand; The River Raiders; The Scarlet Scorpions; Scrappy, A Boy All Alone; Shinguard Smith; Slave of the Ring; Soldiers of the Jet Age; Son of a Gun; Stories of Stanton Town; Striker Bell; Sweeper Swann; The Team That Lost At Home; The Terrors of Iceberg Bay; Tiger of the Big Tank; Trainer MacReddy and his Wee Black Bag; Trooper Bo-Peep; Typhoon Tennyson; The Voice That Ran the Rangers; Waif of the Speedway; Whizz Kid; The Wide-Awake Wanderers; Wild McFee, Willie's Woolly Warrior
Comments: D.C. Thomson's original Wizard had been a long-running story paper that launched in 1923 and ended with a merger into The Rover in 1963. In 1970 D.C. Thomson decided to reuse the name and launched a comic version of Wizard. Despite having (imho) no real stand out stories, it lasted a respectable eight years and 437 issues, during which run it ironically absorbed The Rover, the title that had previously devoured Wizard's namesake predecessor, before itself being absorbed into Victor.
At the start of its run The Wizard included a thirteen page interior section entitled The Wizard Football Special, with strips and features focused on the game in question. Additionally, while predominately a comic strip title, The Wizard included short text stories throughout its runs.
Soldiers of the Jet Age |
Scrappy, A Boy All Alone |
Trooper Bo-Peep |
Cool Kragg, the Team-Maker |
The Early Days of... |
The Voice That Ran the Rangers |
Out of the Ice He Came |
Slave of the Ring |
Inspector Bonehead |
Follow That Man |
The Clutching Hand |
Trainer MacReddy and his Wee Black Bag |
Johnny Modesty |
The Man from USH |
Sweeper Swann |
Flash Harry |
Billy Cinders |
Keeper of the Sword |
Billy Blunder |
The Crimson Claw |
The Place of the Fights |
Striker Bell |
The Frozen Footballers |
Bradley's Bowmen |
Doc Croc |
Poor Young Joe |
The Lost Boy of Redman's Rock |
Waif of the Speedway |
Stories of Stanton Town |
Here Comes Whack! |
Mulligan's Misfits |
The Terrors of Iceberg Bay |
The Boy from Winter Island |
The Lost Years of Lonely Martin |
Arny's Army |
Dolphin of the Space Patrol |
Ossie the Wizard |
Simple Simons, the Worst Centre in Football |
Johnny Winchester |
The River Raiders |
The Fiery Man at Number Six |
Breakneck Bradshaw |
Goals from Nowhere |
The Red Rangers |
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Len, Ben and a Bren |
Down the Thunderhoof Trail |
The Lost 47 Minutes |
The Killers of Kima |
The Team That Lost At Home |
The Motorbike Mountie |
The Wide-Awake Wanderers |
Mister Meek - The Tombstone Terror |
Shinguard Smith |
Ambling Archie |
Away Went Kelly |
|
From Under the Sea They Came |
Coote's Crocks |
The Jinx on Big Joe |
The Scarlet Scorpions |
The Barrow Boy from Mars |
Tiger of the Big Tank |
Cast-Iron Cribb |
Humpy Bumpy, the Fighting Camel |
Typhoon Tennyson |
Wild McFee |
March of the Mammoths |
Cocks of the Common |
Flint of the Fighting Fifth |
Cannonball Kelly |
The Grudge Fights of Clutcher Kane |
Mississippi Mickey |
Whizz Kid |
Five Bullets for Idris the Cruel |
Willie's Woolly Warrior |
The Ace of Space |
The Gas-Bag Grenadiers |
The Last Dog Out of Dunkirk |
Joe for Champ |
Son of a Gun |
Fred the Frightener |
Old Smokey - The Ten Ton Goldmine |
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First Posted: Circa 06/11/2023
Last updated: 08/11/2023
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