Laumer, 1968 The Magnetic Man, Norman A. Daniels, 1968 Moon Express, Daniels, 1969 John Steed: An Authorized Biography Vol. 1: Jealous in Honour, Tim Heald, 1977 (UK release only) A four volume fan fiction set produced in Australia but authorised. Vol. 1 The Weather Merchants (1989) by Dave Rogers and Barlow; Rogers had previously written several non-fiction books about the series Vol. 2 The Monster of the Moor (1990) by Barlow Vol. 3 Before the Mast (1991). A Tara short story, produced only in photocopied supplement format Vol. 4 (1994). Contains two stories, Moonlight Express and The Spoilsports. Too Many Targets, John Peel and Rogers, 1990. The Avengers, Julie Kaewert, 1998 (film novelisation) A short story by Peter Leslie entitled "What's a Ghoul Like You Doing in a Place Like This?" appeared in The Television Crimebusters Omnibus, a hardback anthology edited by Peter Haining, first published by Orion in 1994 (this Steed and Tara story first appeared in the 1969 UK Avengers annual, from Atlas publications). Both of the Macnee/Leslie UK paperback titles were translated and published in Portugal in 1967 as Os Vingadores: O Dia Depois De Amanha (Deadline) and Os Vingadores: O Pato Morto (Dead Duck) by Deaga. All four UK John Garforth Panther book paperbacks were translated and published by Roman in France (1967), a paperback omnibus edition was published in 1998 by Fleuve Noir. Three of the Garforth paperbacks were also translated and published by Heyne in Germany (1967/68) (Heil Harris! was not translated for obvious reasons) and a German hardback omnibus edition of the three titles was published by Lichtenberg (1968), reprinted in paperback by Heyne in 1998. All four titles were also translated and published in the Netherlands by Bruna (1967) and in Chile by Zig-Zag (1968). Comics The first UK Avengers comic strips, featuring Steed and Cathy Gale, first appeared in regional TV listings magazines Look Westward and The Viewer from 14 September 1963 to 9 May 1964 (and later in 1964, re-printed in the Manchester Evening News). This run consisted of four serials. Steed and Mrs Peel comic strips began in Polystyle Publications' TV Comic in issue #720, dated 2 October 1965, beginning after the TV debut of Emma Peel, and ran until issue #771, dated 24 September 1966 – this run consisted of 10 serials plus one 4-page one-off in TV Comic Holiday Special (June 1966). At that point the rights