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KNOCKOUT · Issue 723 · 03/01/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 724 · 10/01/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 725 · 17/01/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 726 · 24/01/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d THE CASE OF THE FLYING SPY by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: This is a short story rather than a comic strip. Sexton Blake is called when it appears that atomic secrets have been tampered with. The safe in which they are stored is in an upper storey room which, to all appearances, is impregnable. However, Tinker spots telephone wires connected to the building above the room's window. Blake surmises that a foreign criminal, a high-wire walker known as The Bat is the culprit and finds that the man was seen getting on a bus to the airport. The detectives give chase and stop the bus but The Bat has mysteriously vanished from it. They retrace their steps and see a helicopter in a field with The Bat racing towards it. Tinker gives chase and the criminal, realising that he won't reach the 'copter in time, climbs a pylon and walks the wire across a river. With no bridge for miles, Blake and Tinker are cut off. However, The Bat has forgotten the helicopter. The detectives fly it over the wires and Blake, dangling from a rope ladder, captures the crook. Trivia: The Bat of this story is entirely unrelated to Dirk Dolland, who was also nicknamed The Bat in his UNION JACK stories. Rating: 
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 727 · 31/01/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d THE CASE OF THE MISSING PASSENGER by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: This is a short story rather than a comic strip. Tom, a taxi driver, picks up a passenger who comes running from a house. The man is desperate to see Sexton Blake. However, when he arrives in Baker Street, Tom finds that his fare has mysteriously vanished from the back of the cab. After learning that the only place Tom stopped was at traffic lights on a road named Dark Cut, Sexton Blake orders the driver to take him there. In an empty shop on the street, he finds signs of a scuffle and surmises that the jeweller's next door is about to be raided and that the passenger was the owner. He creeps upstairs and manages to render one crook unconscious with a well-timed uppercut. He finds the unconscious jeweller before tackling the second crook and overpowering him. He then explains to Tom how the vanishing trick was performed. Rating: 
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 728 · 07/02/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE HAUNTED SIGNALMAN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker are commissioned to investigate a case of diamond smuggling. En route to the docks, the detectives stop at a railway crossing and discover strange goings-on at the signal box. The signalman tells them that every time the boat train goes through, a car appears at the crossing gates and then mysteriously vanishes. Sure enough, as the train approaches, a car appears and is then obscured by the passing carriages. As shots are fired from the vehicle, Blake leaps aboard the train. Tinker sees that the enemy car has gone but then spots it driving towards another rail crossing. Meanwhile, Blake fights with the driver and fireman of the locomotive which collides with the ghost car. The detective explains the trick that had been used to pass the smuggled diamonds from the train drivers to the car. Rating: 
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 729 · 14/02/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MOON ROCKET by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 730 · 21/02/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 731 · 28/02/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 732 · 07/03/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 733 · 14/03/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 734 · 21/03/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 735 · 28/03/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 736 · 04/04/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d TITLE UNKNOWN by Anon. (John Newton Chance) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 737 · 11/04/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE BAT MAN by Anon. (See note below) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker are driving through mountainous country when they are stopped by a girl named Mary Grey. Her brother has been kidnapped and a note left which demands a ransom of £500. The money, the note instructs, must be placed in Doric's Cave. As she guides the detectives to this location, the outline of a human bat is seen against the moon. Blake enters the cave and is confronted by the gun-toting bat. He takes the criminal by surprise and overpowers him, revealing him to be, beneath the costume, Mary's uncle. Trivia: The stories from this issue until the issue dated 25/06/1960 were scripted by Mike Butterworth, John Newton Chance, Angus Allan, Ron Clarke, Jack Higgins, Jack Hunt, Arthur Boucher, J. Roose, F. Passmore, H. Goldman, Harold Lamb and T. Chorlton. It is not currently possible to identify which story was written by whom. Rating: 
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 738 · 18/04/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MAN IN THE MONSTER MASK by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: A man leaps from a car, smashes the window of a jewellery shop, and snatches the window disply. Sexton Blake and Tinker are driving by and ram his car. He flees on foot and ducks into a theatre. The detectives follow and locate the crook in a dressing room. He is keeping his features covered by a gigantic monster mask. Blake ducks as a gun is fired at him then follows the villain out onto the stage. Obeying his guv'nor's whispered directions, Tinker pulls a lever to drop the safety curtain. This distracts the robber long enough for Sexton Blake to attack and capture him. Rating: 
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 739 · 25/04/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE RAILWAY RAIDERS by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: After a day spent hiking, Sexton Blake and Tinker enter a small railway station named Much Clumping. In the ticket office, they find the attendant fast asleep at his desk. The Station Master appears and informs them that there are no more trains that night, so the detective and his assistant settle down in the waiting room. His suspicions aroused, Blake goes to take a look around. Left alone, Tinker is overpowered by a couple of thugs. Meanwhile, Blake discovers that a gold train is due to pass through the station later that night and notices that the signal has been tampered with. However, the crooks attack him and throw him onto the rails as the train approaches. He manages to crawl out of its path as it screeches to a halt. The gang boards the train and sets it in motion, intending to take it to a quarry where the gold will be unloaded. Sexton Blake, though, switches the points, sending the train careening into a siding. He then leaps aboard and captures the criminals. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 740 · 02/05/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE PILOTLESS PLANE by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 741 · 09/05/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MOUNTAIN MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: A financier, Sir William Datchley, is reported killed in a climbing accident by his two male secretaries. Sexton Blake and Tinker climb to the scene of the accident and find themselves under attack. The secretaries, believing that they have killed the detectives, meet with Sir William's father and the three men depart to settle the deceased man's affairs. Blake, Tinker and Inspector Coutts intercept them and expose the fraud that has taken place. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 742 · 16/05/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE GHOST OF CASTLE KEEP by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake is called to Castle Keep by Joseph Cask, who informs him that the castle is being haunted by a ghost which, according to legend, guards a hidden treasure. As Blake and Tinker approach, the castle's drawbridge raises, causing them to crash. They see a glowing figure on the battlements and, after climbing the wall, discover that it has left a trail of luminous paint. They follow this and see the mysterious figure darting through a door. When they reach it, they find to be locked. However, the 'ghost' re-emerges and attacks Blake. He fights it off, tearing the costume from it. The exposed crook runs... straight into Tinker's fist! He turns out to be Cask's cousin who, having found the treasure, was trying to scare his relation away. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 743 · 23/05/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE INVISIBLE THIEF by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker witness an accident in which a van smashes into a jeweller's window. The driver asks the jeweller to get in contact with his company to arrange fior the damage to be paid for. He then drives away. A few moments later, it's discovered that five trays of jewels have vanished. Blake follows a trail that leads to the now abandoned van. Upon examining it, he finds that the engine is in the back and, beneath the bonnet, there is a padded compartment. When he hears the driver approaching with his partner, the detective conceals himself in the compartment then pounces on the crook. The partner is captured by Tinker. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 744 · 30/05/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE SPANISH GALLEON by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 745 · 06/06/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE SIX HOODED MEN by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 746 · 13/06/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE SECRET WEAPON MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 747 · 20/06/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE SPEEDWAY CRIME by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker are at a speedway track when it's reported that the gold cup has been stolen. The race is stopped and a brass band marches onto the track to keep the crowd entertained. Near the safe from which the cup was stolen, Blake finds a small piece of leopard skin. He realises what this means and rushes out into the arena. The bass drum player in the band makes a break for it and flees in a jeep. The detective gives chase on a speedway bike and catches the crook. The cup is found concealed in the drum. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 748 · 27/06/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE BIG FIGHT MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Robert MacGillivray) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 749 · 04/07/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FLYING KIDNAPPERS by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. ('Grinley Grange') Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 750 · 11/07/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE UNDERGROUND MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 751 · 18/07/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE SECRET OF THE PRIORY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. ('Grinley Grange') Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 752 · 25/07/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE HIGHWAY MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake is asked to investigate a lorry driver who is suspected of regularly stealing a secret chemical from the factory where he works. The detective arranges to accompany the driver on his next job. En route to his destination, the driver stops to help a colleague whose vehicle has had a puncture. He offers his spare tyre, in which the chemical is concealed. When Blake exposes the trick, the two drivers knock him unconscious. The first drives away while the second attempts to run the detective over. Tinker, who has been following in a car, saves his guv'nor and they give chase to the fleeing man who crashes and is captured. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 753 · 01/08/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE CIRCUS MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. ('Footbal Club Mystery') PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake is called to Carson's Circus where the takings have been stolen. The thieves, Mario the Tiger Man and Lotti the clown, fall out and Lotti decides to kill his accomplice who he thinks is about to give the game away. Using an air-rifle, he shoots at Mario's tigers, sending them into a rage. Blake tackles the clown while Tinker helps to get the big cats under control. The two criminals are arrested. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 754 · 08/08/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE CROOKED SPEEDMAN by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker are watching practice sessions at the Featherstone racing circuit when they witness an accident. The driver is Betty Randle who, with her brother Harry, owns the racing car. She reveals to Blake that it has been repeatedly sabotaged. The detective offers his services as mechanic and investigator. Next morning, he discovers a time bomb hidden on the car and deduces that the enemy is a rival driver named Lorenzo. Tinker drives in the race and steers his car close to Lorenzo's at the time the bomb had been set to go off. The crook panics and veers off the track to escape the expected explosion. Tinker goes on to win the race. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 755 · 15/08/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FUNFAIR MYSTERY by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Graham Coton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 756 · 22/08/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FORGER'S MISTAKE by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. ('Grinley Grange') PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: A young boy finds that it's raining pound notes and, realising that they're blowing out of a window, knocks on the door of the building and returns them. They belong to a couple of forgers who reward him with one of the notes. When the lad tries to spend it in a newsagent, Sexton Blake is in the shop and notices that the note is counterfeit. The boy shows him the house and the detective, with Tinker, uses a skeleton key to gain entrance. Tinker holds one of the crooks but the other escapes onto the rooftops with Blake hot on his heels. After a brief chase, he is caught and handed over to the police. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 757 · 29/08/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MYSTERY OF GRINLEY GRANGE (part 1) by Anon. (Jack Hunt) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Partridge) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 758 · 05/09/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MYSTERY OF GRINLEY GRANGE (part 2) by Anon. (Jack Hunt) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Partridge) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker walk along the secret passage from the inn to a wine cellar under Grinley Grange. There they watch from the shadows as a monk-like figure fetches a dog from a room and takes it up a crumbling staircase to the courtyard of the house. They follow and see Mary Manville in a tower window and, entering the building, start to climb the stairs towards the room where she is held prisoner. Suddenly, though, they are confronted by the dog. They retreat but a trapdoor opens under their feet and they plummet into darkness. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT · Issue 759 · 12/09/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MYSTERY OF GRINLEY GRANGE (part 3) by Anon. (Jack Hunt) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Partridge) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 760 · 19/09/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MYSTERY OF GRINLEY GRANGE (part 5) by Anon. (Jack Hunt) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Partridge) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 761 · 26/09/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MYSTERY OF GRINLEY GRANGE (part 6) by Anon. (Jack Hunt) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Partridge) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: As the hooded figure known as The Abbot slashes the bell-rope, Tinker swings sideways and grabs the rail of a balcony. He continues his pursuit of Burton but the crook entangles him in a net and knocks him out. When he recovers, he finds himself bound and gagged beside Mary Manville. Meanwhile, Sexton Blake manages to free himself from his own bonds and makes a daring escape by crashing out through a window and plummeting into a pool far below. As he surfaces, he finds himself surrounded by ferocious guard dogs. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 762 · 3/10/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE MYSTERY OF GRINLEY GRANGE (part 7) by Anon. (Jack Hunt) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Partridge) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 763 · 10/10/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE STOLEN PEARL by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Alfred Taylor) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 764 · 17/10/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE KING OF DIAMONDS by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (Unknown) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 765 · 24/10/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 1) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Footballer Ted Wilson returns to the Morley Rovers football ground late at night to pick up the watch he'd left in the dressing room. Suddenly, a sinister figure emerges from the shadows and knocks him unconscious. His assailant, Sancho, steals the watch and then climbs the ground's clock tower. Meanwhile, Ted recovers and telephones Pat Henson, the team manager. He happens to have Sexton Blake and Tinker staying with him as guests, so they all — along with Pat's daughter Jo — rush to the football ground. They search for the intruder but he has already left and gone to nearby Garsley Towers, where he reports to his master, Jason Soames, who is a director of the club. He wants full possession of the ground but, to achieve this, he must destroy the team, who have part-ownership. Next day, the Morley Rovers start a match which is immediately interrupted when the clock tower explodes! Rating:
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 766 · 31/10/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 2) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake, Tinker, Jo Hensen and Ted Wilson dive for cover as masonary rains down around them. In the aftermath of this act of sabotage, Blake deduces that whoever set the bomb must have reached the clock from outside the tower. A few days later, the team travel to an away match. During the game, the ball explodes releasing gas. The players collapse. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 767 · 07/11/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 3) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: Sexton Blake and Tinker assist the players who are stricken by the gas fumes. With the game brought to a sudden close, the crowd disperses, many of them disgruntled at yet another cancelled match. Jason Soames revels in the chaos he has caused. Suspecting that the saboteur is near at hand, Blake arranges for Tinker to join the team. The following Saturday, at a match against Grassley Athletic, a helicopter swoops out of the sky trailing a noose which sweeps towards the Moorley Rovers captain. Tinker pushes the intended target aside and finds himself roped instead and dragged into the sky. As the helicopter speeds away, Blake sets off in pursuit. Meanwhile, Soames realises that he's hooked the wrong man. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 768 · 14/11/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 4) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 769 · 21/11/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 5) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 770 · 28/11/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 6) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 771 · 05/12/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d SEXTON BLAKE AND THE FOOTBALL CLUB MYSTERY (part 7) by Anon. (Unknown) · Illustrator: Anon. (James Higgins) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: This marks the end of the Sexton Blake serials in KNOCKOUT. Henceforth, complete tales of detection feature instead. They are significantly inferior in quality. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 772 · 12/12/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d THE CASE OF THE TWISTING TORPEDO by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Bryce Hamilton) PDF: Click here Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: When three ships from the Blue-Planet line are sunk in quick succession, Sexton Blake is commissioned to investigate. He and Tinker follow a ship from the line and spot a torpedo heading towards it. To their horror, when the ship responds to their warning by changing course, the torpedo changes course too. It hits but the captain has closed all the watertight doors, so the vessel is able to limp to port. In dry dock, Blake examines the damage and realises that the weapon was guided by magnets. Suddenly the dock gates open and water rushes in. Blake escapes and catches the culprit — a former captain of the line who is bent on revenge after being sacked. Rating:
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 773 · 19/12/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d THE CASE OF THE SEVEN SUNS by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Bryce Hamilton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT AND COMIC CUTS · Issue 774 · 26/12/1953 · Amalgamated Press · 3d THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS REVENGE by Anon. (See note, issue 737) · Illustrator: Anon. (W. Bryce Hamilton) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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KNOCKOUT FUN BOOK 1953 · Undated · Amalgamated Press · 7/6 TIME FLIES by Quentin Ford (Raymond Pothecary) · Illustrator: Anon. (Unknown) Other content: Various strips and text stories. Notes: None at present Trivia: A single Blake text story in this issue but no strips. Rating: Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 279 · Jan. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE WOMAN ON THE SPOT by John Hunter · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: During the war, Bernice Chantelot worked for the French Resistance. Now, a decade later, she is murdered in a hotel after returning hastily from a visit to France. Her final telephone call is to Peter Muir, who had worked with her during the conflict. He discovers the body and is initially a suspect — a fact which brings him to Sexton Blake's attention. While Blake retraces Bernice's steps on the Continent, Tinker follows Muir to a pub and witnesses him meeting with the landlady, Maud Denham, and her enigmatic daughter, Melanie. The next day, Muir vanishes, and, not long after, Maud reports to Tinker that Melanie has disappeared as well. As she leaves the Baker Street house, Maud is kidnapped by Hubert Alvey, Bernice's employer. He is searching for Melanie and takes her mother to France, where all the protagonists — Sexton Blake, Tinker, Peter Muir, Alvey and Maud — now gather. A prosperous lumber region owned by a man named Antoine Vallon seems to be the focus of the mystery and it is there that Blake begins to realise the true nature of the case. Maud and Alvey are both murdered and soon after, Mr Denham, Maud's husband, arrives from England to search for her. He visits the Vallon house where things aren't at all what they seem; a great deception occurred here during the days of the Resistance and its participants are prepared to go to any lengths to keep it secret. When Peter Muir also turns up, suppressed violence erupts. Sexton Blake and Tinker, who have untangled the mystery, arrive in time to witness that justice has been done. Melanie's whereabouts are revealed, as is her true identity. The adventure ends with her becoming Mrs Muir. Trivia: Tinker uses his nom de plume of Carter. Rating:
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 280 · Jan. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE BIG CIRCUS MYSTERY by Hilary King (James G. Dickson) · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 281 · Feb. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d CROOK'S DEPUTY by Anthony Parsons · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 282 · Feb. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE SECRET OF THE SNOWS by Walter Tyrer · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 283 · Mar. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE AFRICAN HOODOO by Rex Hardinge · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: None Notes: Story takes place in South Africa. This is a revised version of THE BLACK CLOUD from UNION JACK issue 1,265 (1928). Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 284 · Mar. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE NIGHT CLUB MYSTERY by Hugh Clevely · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: Just Asking For It (article) Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 285 · Apr. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE PRINCE'S DIARY by Anthony Parsons · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 286 · Apr. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE SECRET OF THE FATED FAMILY by Rex Hardinge · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 287 · May 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE NAVAL STORES RACKET by Walter Tyrer · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: Was It Lucky? (article) Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 288 · May 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MYSTERY by William J. Passingham · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 289 · Jun. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE SMUGGLED CURRENCY by Hugh Clevely · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: The Order to Quit (article) Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 290 · Jun. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE SECRET OF THE INDIAN LAWYER by Anthony Parsons · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 291 · Jul. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE MYSTERY OF THE BODY ON THE CLIFF by Rex Hardinge · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: The Crying Clue (article) Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 292 · Jul. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CRIME AT THE FAIR by Hilary King (James G. Dickson) · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: Again, the Blunt Instrument (article) Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 293 · Aug. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE MISSING NAZI by Walter Tyrer · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 294 · Aug. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d DESTINATION UNKNOWN by John Hunter · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 295 · Sep. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE UNKNOWN HEIR by Anthony Parsons · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: Laughter in Court (article) Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 296 · Sep. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE GIRL FROM TORONTO by Hugh Clevely · Illustrator: Unknown Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 297 · Oct. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE MYSTERY OF THE ARAB AGENT by Warwick Jardine (Francis Warwick) · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 298 · Oct. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE ACE ACCOMPLICE by William J. Passingham · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 299 · Nov. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE MYSTERY OF THE SWINDLER'S STOOGE by Walter Tyrer · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 300 · Nov. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE CASE OF THE NAMELESS MILLIONAIRE by Anthony Parsons · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 301 · Dec. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE THIEVES OF ALEXANDRIA by John Hunter · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: Story features Captain Dack. Unrated |
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THE SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY · 3rd series · Issue 302 · Dec. 1953 · Amalgamated Press · 8d THE SECRET OF THE JUNGLE by George Rees · Illustrator: Eric Parker Other content: None Notes: None at present. Unrated |
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