Strip dates given are those of their original appearance in the British newspaper the Daily Mirror, first compiled by Geoffrey Wren and Ann Holmes and updated by Ant Jones and Philip Harbottle. With thanks also to Lee Grice and Ron Tiner for some images featured in this section of downthetubes
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The Brain
Story Number: 51
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
25th April 1966 – 13th August 1966 (Z97 – Z192)
Number of Episodes: 96
The Night of the Knives
Story Number: 52
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
15th August 1966 – 28th November 1966 (Z193 – Z283)
Number of Episodes: 91
Lord of the Computers
Story Number: 53
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
29th November 1996 – 28th March 1967 (Z284 – A73)
Number of Episodes: 101
The Wakening
Story Number: 54
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
29th March 1967 – 27th July 1967 (A74 – A177)
Number of Episodes: 104
Wrath of Venus
Story Number: 55
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
28th July 1967 – 7th November 1967 (A178 – A265)
Number of Episodes: 88
The Glenoig Miracle
Story Number: 56
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
8th November 1967 – 15th March 1968 (A266 – B65)
Number of Episodes: 109
The Time Lock
Story Number: 57
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
16th March 1968 – 6th July 1968 (B66 – B161)
Number of Episodes: 96
The Web of Dionara (Part 1, interrupted by industrial dispute)
Story Number: 58
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
8th July 1968 – 28th August 1968 (B162 – B206)
Number of Episodes: 45
The Troll (incomplete re-run, published during industrial dispute)
Story Number: 44
Writer: Peter O’Donnell
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
29th August 1968 – 18th November 1968 (B207 – B276)
Number of Episodes: 70
The Web of Dionara (Part 2)
Story Number: 58
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
19th November 1968 – 8th January 1969 (B277 – C7)
Number of Episodes: 42
Mind Destroyers
Story Number: 59
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Steve Dowling/John Allard
9th January 1969 – 22nd April 1969 (C8 – C95)
Number of Episodes: 88
The Rohan Legend
Story Number: 60
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
23rd April 1969 – 1st August 1969 (C96 – C181)
Number of Episodes: 86
Playboy of Space
Story Number: 61
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
2nd August 1969 – 7th November 1969 (C182 – C265)
Number of Episodes: 84
These Men are Mine
Story Number: 62
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
8th November 1969 – 16th February 1970 (C266 – D40)
Number of Episodes: 88
Exiles
Story Number: 63
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
17th February 1970 – 21st May 1970 (D41 – D120)
Number of Episodes: 80
Ghost Ship
Story Number: 64
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
22nd May 1970 – 2nd September 1970 (D121 – D205)
Number of Episodes: 85
The Brain Voyagers
Story Number: 65
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
3rd September 1970 – 9th December 1970 (D206 – D288)
Number of Episodes: 83
The Syndicate
Story Number: 66
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
10th December 1970 – 20th March 1971 (D289 – E66)
Number of Episodes: 83
Journey into Fear
Story Number: 67
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: John Allard
22nd March 1971 – 26th June 1971 (E67 – E149)
Number of Episodes: 83
Sundance
Story Number: 68
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Frank Bellamy/John Allard
28th June 1971 – 11th October 1971 (E150 – E236)
Number of Episodes: 87
The Cloud of Balthus
Story Number: 69
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Frank Bellamy/John Allard
12th October 1971 – 27th January 1972 (E237 – F23)
Number of Episodes: 91
The Orb of Trimandias
Story Number: 70
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artists: Frank Bellamy/John Allard
28th January 1972 – 22nd May 1972 (F24 – F121)
Number of Episodes: 98
Wolf Man of Ausensee
Story Number: 71
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Frank Bellamy
23rd May 1972 – 6th September 1972 (F122 – F210)
Number of Episodes: 89
People of the Abyss
Story Number: 72
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Frank Bellamy
7th September 1972 – 23rd December 1972 (F211 – F303)
Number of Episodes: 93
The Women of Galba
Story Number: 73
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Frank Bellamy
27th December 1972 – 10th April 1973 (F304 – G86)
Number of Episodes: 90
Ghost Town
Story Number: 74
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Frank Bellamy
11th April 1973 – 12th July 1973 (G87 – G164)
Number of Episodes: 78
The Mask of Atacama
Story Number: 75
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Frank Bellamy
13th July 1973 – 25th October 1973
G165 – G254
Number of Episodes: 90
Note on strip codes / serial numbers, etc: Each code letter (running A to Z, excluding the letter I) represents a year’s worth of Mondays to Saturdays, the days on which The (Daily) Mirror newspaper of London is published. Thus, in any given year, there will be a maximum of 314 numbers assigned to a serial code.
Before 1982, the Mirror was not published Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day. From 1982 it was published every day except Sunday and Christmas Day. The later stories, “The Picture” (1996), “Dam Drivers” (1997) and “Z File” (1997) only appeared in the Mirror‘s Northern Ireland edition.
Thick writing = leap years
1943 = B (310)
1944 = C (310)
1945 = D (308)
1946 = E (309)
1947 = F (310)
1948 = G (311)
1949 = H (310)
1950 = J (309)
1951 = K (310)
1952 = L (310)
1953 = M (310)
1954 = N (310)
1955 = O (308)
1956 = P (310)
1957 = Q (310)
1958 = R (310)
1959 = S (310)
1960 = T (311)
1961 = U (309)
1962 = V (310)
See Also: Garth: An Introduction
• Garth – Strip Checklist – Part One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight (Reprints)
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