Ron Embleton’s Wulf the Briton

Over on Blimey! It’s Another Blog About Comics, Lew Stringer notes blog site cloud-109.blogspot.com is showcasing an impressive array of quality artwork including a serialisation of Ron Embleton’s Wulf the Briton from Express Weekly in 1959.

Express Weekly No. 237, cover dated 4th April 1959, featuring “Wulf the Briton”. Cover scan via Lew Stringer
Express Weekly No. 237, cover dated 4th April 1959, featuring “Wulf the Briton”. Cover scan via Lew Stringer

“This was simply one of the best adventure strips to have appeared in British comics and the hi-res scans have been cleaned up and presented large size for study,” notes Lew Stringer. “Artist Peter Richardson provides a commentary alongside the strips.”

According to Peter, Wulf the Briton is regarded as Ron Embleton’s comic masterpiece. He took over the strip which was a single page cover feature on Express Weekly in 1957, making it his own and certainly putting it on a par with Dan Dare, which was running in Eagle.

Embleton, who went on to draw strips for TV Century 21 and many other titles, was paid £200 a week for drawing, painting, and lettering the strip, at a time when the average weekly wage in the UK was £12.

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