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
See Also: Garth: An Introduction
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The Don’s Daughter
Story Number: 125
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 18th December 1977 – 17th March 1988 (V301 – W66)
Number of Episodes: 77
Reprinted: 2015
In the Beginning
Story Number: 126
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 18th March 1988 – 17th June 1988
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted: 2015
Body Swap
Story Number: 127
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 18th June 1988 – 16th September 1988 (W145 – W222)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted: 2015
Beyond the Dreamtime
Story Number: 128
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th September 1988 – 15th December 1988 (W223 – W300)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted: 2013
Venus Trap
Story Number: 129
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th December 1988 – 16th March 1989 (W301 – X64)
Number of Episodes: 78
Takeover UK!
Story Number: 130
Writer: John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th March 1989 – 15th June 1989 (X65 – X142)
Number of Episodes: 78
Scourge of God
Story Number: 131
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th June 1989 – 14th September 1989 (X143 – X220)
Number of Episodes: 78
The Doll Master
Story Number: 132
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th September 1989 – 14th December 1989 (X221 – X298)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted: 2015
Swordsman of Subucus
Story Number: 133
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th December 1989 – 16th March 1990 (X299 – Y65)
Number of Episodes: 78
On the planet of Subucus, men have become slaves to Lilith, sister in evil to The Great Beast. Her assistant, a witch named Morcred, tells Lilith about Garth, a man capable of resisting her charm.
Morcred summons Garth through the Sword of Honour, a prize presented to him for winning the British Fencing Championship.
Garth is tricked into believing Lilith has denounced her evil ways and has fallen for him. She becomes a bat and poisons Garth with a bite to the chest. Captain Creda, a servant to Lilith, rescues him by sucking out the poison.
Morcred turns into a monstrous swordsman that Garth defeats with his sword. A group of rebels and fugitives, led by Creda and her brother Tirus, come together and attack Lilith’s palace. Once again she becomes a bat and escapes. The planet of Subucus is now at peace and Garth returns home to Earth.
Synopsis by Ant Jones
The Chiller Connection
Story Number: 134
Writer: Angus Allan/
Writer: John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th March 1990 – 15th June 1990 (Y66 – Y143)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted: 78
Dancing Queen
Story Number: 135
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th June 1990 – 14th September 1990 (Y144 – Y221)
Number of Episodes: 78
Dark Side
Story Number: 136
Writer: John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th September 1990 – 14th December 1990 (Y222 – Y299)
Number of Episodes: 78
Treasure of Colchis
Story Number: 137
Writer: Tim Quinn/ John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th December 1990 – 16th March 1991 (Y300 – Z65)
Number of Episodes: 78
Bedside Manor
Story Number: 138
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 18th March 1991 – 15th June 1991 (Z66 – Z143)
Number of Episodes: 78
Apache Moon
Story Number: 139
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th June 1991 – 14th September 1991 (Z144 – Z221)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted: 78
The Iceman Liveth
Story Number: 140
Writer: Tim Quinn
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th September 1991 – 14th December 1991 (Z222 – Z299)
Number of Episodes: 78
Hell-Fire
Story Number: 141
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th December 1991 – 16th March 1992 (Z300 – A64)
Number of Episodes: 77
Blood Sport
Story Number: 142
Writer: Tim Quinn
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th March 1992 – 15th June 1992 (A65 – A143)
Number of Episodes: 79
Man on the Edge
Story Number: 143
Writer: John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th June 1992 – 14th September 1992 (A144 – A221)
Number of Episodes: 78
The Killing of Rusty O’Roare
Story Number: 144
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th September 1992 – 14th December 1992 (A222 – A299)
Number of Episodes: 78
Twin Souls
Story Number: 145
Writer: Philip Harbottle
Artist: Martin Asbury Published:
Published: 15th December 1992 – 16th March 1993 (A300 – B64)
Number of Episodes: 78
Garth experiences vivid dreams of a planet dying from global warming. Professor Lumiere deduces he is telepathically linked to his “cosmic twin” on a distant planet (Lyra). He transposes Garth’s mind with that of Lyra’s ruler, Crax, who had been placed in therapeutic sleep. While he slept his “Shadow Leader” Nazrin has forced the population into building spaceships to migrate into space, unaware they are sabotaged to explode. An insectile alien race are focusing the sun’s heat onto Lyra through vast lenses in a tunnel cut through its moon, to force the exodus.
Garth and Crax’s girlfriend Elvia follow Nazrin to the moon, where he is revealed to be an alien who had been “wearing” Nazrin’s dead body. Garth and Elvia escape in a spaceship, smashing the lenses and destroying the moon in the process. Crax reclaims his body just as Elvia, unaware of the switch, is about to make love!
Synopsis by Philip Harbottle
Viva El Garto!
Story Number: 146
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th March 1993 – 15th June 1993 (B65 – B142)
Number of Episodes: 78
Return to the Static Zone
Story Number: 147
Writer: Peter O’Donnell/ John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 16th June 1993 – 14th September 1993 (B143 – B220)
Number of Episodes: 78
Warlord
Story Number: 148
Writers: Philip Harbottle & John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th September 1993 – 14th December 1993 (B221 – B298)
Number of Episodes: 78
Serving as a United Nations Observer on a Pacific island, Garth teams up with Cindy Lee, a feisty Texas lady leading a relief convoy to the village of Lontaga — cut off and under the domination of the crazed General Kano, a local warlord. Kano seized control of a chunk of the island when civil war broke out, and uses the villagers as slaves in a copper mine. He gets weapons by smuggling out copper with the help of crooks from Tokyo.
Using his great strength and cunning, Garth successfully leads the convoy past Kano’s forces to reach Lontaga, but Cindy is kidnapped and taken to Kano’s HQ, an old Spanish castle. About to be whipped by Kano, Cindy is saved when Garth intervenes. After defeating a Sumo champion in a fight to the death, Garth escapes with Cindy by hanging onto a dragon kite as a typhoon destroys the castle.
Synopsis by Philip Harbottle
Champions
Story Number: 149
Writers: Philip Harbottle & John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 15th December 1993 – 16th March 1994 (B299 – C64)
Number of Episodes: 78
Waxmel, interstellar entrepreneur, (a parody of Robert Maxwell) stages sporting contests televised across the galaxy. His current champions are brothers Dez and Zed Grimos from his home world. Garth and Megon (a being from a high gravity world) are snatched across space to compete in three contests: a sled race across an ice zone, a race to find water in a desert, and a contest to ride on the back of a genetically engineered sea monster and steer it back into harbour.
Waxwel rigs the contests to ensure the Brothers’ victory. They win the first, but lose the second and decisive third, in which Dez is killed by the sea monster.
At the awards ceremony Zed hands over the Champions trophy to Garth containing a bomb planted by Waxmel, but Garth and Megon outwit them and both are killed. The triumphant Garth and Megon are returned to their home planets.
Synopsis by Philip Harbottle
Nightmare in Paris
Story Number: 150
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
Published: 17th March 1994 – 15th June 1994 (C65 – C142)
Number of Episodes: 78
See Also: Garth: An Introduction
• Garth – Strip Checklist – Part One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six | Seven | Eight (Reprints)
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