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''Knockout'' may refer to one of two British comics. ==1939 series== The first, published by the Amalgamated Press (later Fleetway Publications), was launched by editor Percy Clarke and sub-editor Leonard Matthews in 1939 to compete with ''The Dandy'' and ''The Beano'', launched by DC Thomson in 1937 and 1938 respectively. Like its rivals, it featured a mixture of humour and adventure strips and illustrated prose stories. Matthews recruited Hugh McNeill,〔Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 106-107〕 a former ''Beano'' artist, as the title's main humour artist, and his strips "Our Ernie" and "Deed-a-Day Danny" were very popular.〔Alan Clark, ''Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors'', The British Library, 1998, p. 103-104〕 Two characters were imported from the prose story papers - Billy Bunter, formerly of ''The Magnet'', initially drawn by C. H. Chapman,〔(C. H. Chapman on Lambiek Comiclopedia )〕 later by Frank Minnitt, and Sexton Blake, initially drawn by Jos Walker, later by Alfred Taylor,〔Denis Gifford, ''Encyclopedia of Comic Characters'', Longman, 1987〕 Roland Davies and definitive Blake illustrator Eric Parker.〔Norman Wright and David Ashford, ''Masters of Fun and Thrills: The British Comic Artists Vol 1'', Norman Wright (pub.), 2008〕 After the Second World War the title featured more adventure strips, and Matthews, who was promoted to editor in 1948, recruited artists including Sep E. Scott, H. M. Brock, D. C. Eyles and Geoff Campion to draw them.〔 The title lasted 1251 issues, from (cover dates) 4 March 1939 to 16 February 1963, absorbing ''The Magnet'' in 1940 and ''Comic Cuts'' in 1953, before being merged into ''Valiant''.〔(Complete AP/Fleetway Comic Index )〕 Other strips included:〔 *Battler Britton (1960–61, formerly featured in ''Sun''; drawn by Geoff Campion) *Buffalo Bill (1940) *Davy Crockett (1955–60) *Hopalong Cassidy (1954–60) *Johnnie Wingco (1954–60) *Kelly's Eye (1962–63, drawn by Francisco Solano López) *Robin Hood (1947, drawn by D. C. Eyles) *Space Family Rollinson (1953–58; see French Wikipedia article) *Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit (1939–50, drawn by Norman Ward) *Thunderbolt Jaxon (1958) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Knockout (UK comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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