the Christmas market and sold almost exclusively through the Woolworth's department store chain. These annuals contained a mixture of text and comic strip stories. Some were original British creations while others were reprinted from Quality Comics. In the late 1950s, increased competition with now legal American comic book imports caused Boardman to drop their comics annual line. The last, Buffalo Bill True West Annual saw print in 1961. The firm ceased operations entirely in 1967, although the Bloodhound Mystery line continued for several years from other publishers. The Bloodhound Mystery authors included Drew (Droo) Launay, who wrote the Detective Adam Flute novels: She Modelled Her Coffin The New Shining White Murder A Corpse in Camera Death and Still Life The Two Way Mirror The Scream Comic book titles Original titles Annuals (mixture of original stories and reprints of Quality Comics material): Buffalo Bill Wild West Annual (12 issues, Christmas 1949–1960) Super Coloured Comic Annual (3 issues, 1949–1951) Ajax Adventure Annual (1 issue, Christmas 1952) — 192 pp. Adventure Annual (1 issue, Christmas 1953) — 192 pp. New Spaceways Comic Annual (1 issue, Christmas 1954) — 192 pp. Okay Adventure Annual (3 issues, 1955–1957) Okay Annual of Adventure Stories (2 issues, 1958–1959) First Book of Heroes (1960) — no comics content Buffalo Bill (17 issues, 1948–1954) Buffalo Bill True West Annual (1 issue, 1961) The Lone Rider (1 issue, 1950) Mystery Comics (5 issues, 1940–1941) Roy Carson (8 issues, February 1948 – February 1951) Roy Carson Comic (2 issues, January 1953 – 1954) Spaceways Comic (1 issue, November 1953) Super Funnies (5 issues, 1940–1941) Swift Morgan (7 issues, March 1948 – April 1951) Swift Morgan Space Comic (2 issues, March–November 1953) Reprint titles from Quality Comics, unless otherwise noted Blackhawk (16 issues, Jan. 1949–1951) Buccaneers (1 issue, May 1951) Captain Midnight (1 issue, 1946) — reprinted from Dell Comics Crack Western (3 issues, 1948–1954) Doll Man (1 issue, 1951) Feature Comics (5 issues, 1940–1941) Okay Comics Weekly (20 issues, 16 October 1937 – 16 February 1938) Plastic Man (4 issues, 1954) Smash Comics (6 issues, 1940–1941) The Spirit (2 issues, February–July 1949) Sources Gore, Matthew H. "Collector's Corner: Denis McLoughlin," Goldenage Treasury Volume One. AC Comics: Longwood, Florida, 2003. Unpaginated. Hertzberg, Francis. Denis McLoughlin: The Master of Light & Shade. Gryphon Books: Brooklyn, New York, 1995. Holland, Steve. "The Lancashire Cowboy and the Bloodhound: The Art of Denis McLoughlin," Paperback Parade