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7 unusual facts about Denis McLoughlin


Bloodhound Mystery

British artist Denis McLoughlin served as art director for Boardman Books and provided many of the dust jacket illustrations.

Denis McLoughlin

He created an eight-page adaptation of General George Armstrong Custer's last stand based primarily on his hazy memory of the film They Died With Their Boots On.

Both Adventure Annual and New Spaceways Comic Annual feature Roy Carson and Swift Morgan stories.

Mildly inspired by Alex Raymond, Denis and Colin filled the first seven issues with the adventures of detective Roy Carson and adventure/science fiction hero Swift Morgan alternately.

Reprints Swift Morgan, Roy Carson and Buffalo Bill from the Boardman rotogravure series.

One McLoughlin story features hard boiled detective Roy Carson while the other has science fiction hero Swift Morgan.

New Spaceways Comic Annual

Denis McLoughlin, creative director for the series, based most of the spacemen, rockets, flying saucers, space creatures, robots, etc. on the toys then carried by Woolworth's.


Matthew H. Gore

He is best known for his book The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988 (2000), but has published on a variety of topics as diverse as The Origin of Marvelman (a British superhero of the 1950s and 1960s), the relative scarcity of East German philatelics, and the biography of British pulp artist, Denis McLoughlin.

Roy Carson

Roy Carson was a British hard-boiled detective created in 1948 by Denis McLoughlin and his brother Colin and first published by Boardman Books in their series of rotogravure comic books (1948–1954).


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