I'm glad I found this thread, just so I can tack this onto it.
I?ve been working my way superfast through the
Eagle, a comic I originally bought every week since its relaunch in 1982, and still have the free gifts (Space Spinner and Eagle badge!)
I say superfast because there isn?t a lot in them to interest me now. The photo stories, especially, are pretty lame.
However, there was a particular artist who held my attention - José Ortiz - who drew the following black and white stories:
The Tower King (written by Alan Hebden) was memorable for its visuals of a savage modern London in a world without electricity.
The House of Daemon (written by Alan Grant and John Wagner under his T.B. Grover pseudonym) was similar to the theme of the 1986 film
House, yet preceding it by four years.
The most readable of them, though, is
The Fifth Horseman: A Thaddius Thorn Story (written by Hebden), which appeared in issues 49-69 during 1983.
Seems like it was Thorn?s
only story. While the hero may be a lot wealthier and a lot more adept at everything than Indiana Jones, his adventures have that old-fashioned feel about them, despite the contemporary 1983 setting.
All the pages are on these two net pages, though not quite presented in the correct order:
http://theyellowedpages.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=horseman
http://theyellowedpages.blogspot.co...0-08:00&max-results=20&start=17&by-date=false
My superfast zip through the comics has slowed down to re-read this one.