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''Lion'' was a weekly British comics periodical published by Fleetway (a subsidiary of IPC, the International Publishing Corporation) from 23 February 1952 to 18 May 1974. It lasted for 1,156 issues. ==Publishing history== ''Lion'' was first published on 23 February 1952, and was a weekly boys' adventure comic designed to compete with ''Eagle'', the popular weekly comic that had introduced Dan Dare. ''Lion''s first issue contained a mix of text stories and comic strips; its flagship story was ''Captain Condor – Space Ship Pilot'', a science fiction adventure in the Dan Dare mould. The premiere issue also contained the first adventure of Robot Archie (called ''The Jungle Robot'' in early adventures) who would go on to become one of the title's most popular characters. The most popular story was ''Paddy Payne'' written by Val Holding and drawn by Joe Colquhoun. Reg "Skipper" Clarke ran the letters feature. Editor Bernard Smith was always proud to say that he had the latest issue of ''Lion'' delivered to Buckingham Palace every Friday, the young Prince Charles being an avid reader. In 1960, Prince Charles was 11 years old. By the 1960s ''Lion'' had settled into being one of the most popular British weekly titles of the time. It began to feature an increasing number of anti-hero characters such as The Spider and The Sludge (who would later battle Robot Archie in his own strip). ''Lion'' merged with several other comics during its life, including ''Eagle'' in 1969 and ''Thunder'' in 1971. But by the early 1970s sales were slipping, and in 1974 it was merged with ''Valiant''. Several strips continued in ''Valiant'', but that title merged with ''Battle Picture Weekly'' in 1976. In 2005 many of IPC's characters, including several from ''Lion'', were featured in a mini-series called ''Albion'' published by the WildStorm imprint of DC Comics. 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「Lion (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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