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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Day of Anger
Story Number: 101
Writer: Jim Edgar/John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 3/6/81 – 7/10/81 (P130 – P238)
Number of Episodes: 109
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2014
The Space Mods
Story Number: 102
Writer: Jim Edgar/John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 8/10/81 – 13/2/82 (P239 – Q37)
Number of Episodes: 108
Seek and Destroy
Story Number: 103
Writer: Jim Edgar/John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 15/2/82 – 7/6/82 (Q38 – Q133)
Number of Episodes: 104
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2017
The Bombers
Story Number: 104
Writer: Jim Edgar/John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 8/6/82 – 5/10/82 (Q134 – Q235)
Number of Episodes: 102
Hunters
Story Number: 105
Writer: Jim Edgar/John Allard
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 6/10/82 – 27/1/83 (Q236 – R22)
Number of Episodes: 96
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2014
Merchants of Terror
Story Number: 106
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 28/1/83 – 29/4/83 (R23 – R100)
Number of Episodes: 78
Hammer of Thorwold
Story Number: 107
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 30/4/83 – 1/8/83 (R101 – R180)
Number of Episodes: 80
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2014
Sammy
Story Number: 108
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 2/8/83 – 3/11/83 (R181 – R261)
Number of Episodes: 81
La Belle Sauvage
Story Number: 109
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 4/11/83 – 7/2/84 (R262 – S32)
Number of Episodes: 82
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2020
Tell No Tales
Story Number: 110
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 8/2/84 – 9/5/84 (S33 – S110)
Number of Episodes: 78
Lords of Space
Story Number: 111
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 10/5/84 – 24/8/84 (S111 – S202)
Number of Episodes: 92
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2019
Winning is All
Story Number: 112
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 25/8/84 – 24/11/84 (S203 – S283)
Number of Episodes: 81
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2019
Whose Finger on the Button?
Story Number: 113
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 26/11/84 – 7/3/85 (S284 – T52)
Number of Episodes: 82
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2020
This Land is Mine
Story Number: 114
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 8/3/85 – 6/6/85 (T53 – T130)
Number of Episodes: 78
Tigress
Story Number: 115
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 7/6/85 – 5/9/85 (T131 – T208)
Number of Episodes: 78
Comet of Doom
Story Number: 116
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 6/9/85 – 5/12/85 (T209 – T286)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2016
Return to Thule
Story Number: 117
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 6/12/85 – 14/3/86 (T287 – U64)
Number of Episodes: 85
Sage of Eadon
Story Number: 118
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 15/3/86 – 16/6/86 (U65 – U142)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2013/14
Brotherhood of Blood
Story Number: 119
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published:17/6/86 – 15/9/86 (U143 – U220)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2016
Vengeance of Venn
Story Number: 120
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 16/9/86 – 16/12/86 (U221 – U298)
Number of Episodes: 78
Outlaws
Story Number: 121
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 17/12/86 – 18/3/87 (U299 – V66)
Number of Episodes: 78
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2016
Super-Hero
Story Number: 122
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 19/3/87 – 17/6/87 (V67 – V144)
Number of Episodes: 78
The Great Beast
Story Number: 123
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 18/6/87 – 16/9/87 (V145 – V222)
Number of Episodes: 78
The Gallant and Gray
Story Number: 124
Writer: Angus Allan
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 17/9/87 – 17/12/87 (V223 – V300)
Number of Episodes: 78
The Don’s Daughter
Story Number: 125
Writer: Jim Edgar
Artist: Martin Asbury
First Published: 18/12/87 – 17/3/88 (V301 – W66)
Number of Episodes: 77
Reprinted in the Mirror: 2015
Garth: 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. Figures in brackets denote number of days the newspaper appeared that year. Before 1982, it was not published on Sunday, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and Boxing Day From 1982 it was published every day except Sunday and Christmas Day Stories 163, 164 and 165 appeared only 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)
1963 = W (310)
1964 = X (311)
1965 = Y (310)
1966 = Z (311)
1967 = A (309)
1968 = B (311)
1969 = C (309)
1970 = D (305)
1971 = E (304)
1972 = F (307)
1973 = G (309)
1974 = H (306)
1975 = J (307)
1976 = K (310)
1977 = L (310)
1978 = M (307)
1979 = N (309)
1980 = O (307)
1981 = P (309)
1982 = Q (309)
1983 = R (311)
1984 = S (313)
1985 = T (307)
1986 = U (310)
1987 = V (311)
1988 = W (314)
1989 = X (311)
1990 = Y (312)
1991 = Z (312)
1992 = A (313)
1993 = B (312)
1994 = C (313)
1995 = D (311)
1996 = E (312)
1997 = F (312)
See Also: Garth: An Introduction
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