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First Editions. Twentyone Issues. Quarto (21.2 cm wide x 30 cm high). Each issue has 35 pages. The Comic was published weekly, every Tuesday. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Included in this 1976-collection are Numbers: February 1976: 3 (February 28th, 1976) March 1976: 4 (March 6th, 1976) and Numbers 5, 6, 7, 11 April 1976: 11 (April 24th, 1976) May 1976: 12 (May 1st, 1976) and Numbers 13, 14, 16 (with Liverpool's John Toshack against Roy McFarland on the back of the Comic) June 1976: 18 (June 12th, 1976) and Numbers 19, 20 July 1976: 22 (July 10th, 1976) August 1976: 27 (August 14th, 1976) and Number 29 September 1976: 30 (September 4th, 1976) and Numbers 31, 33 (With "A is for Annfield - Home of Liverpool" on the back with Kevin Keegan scoring against Bruges) October 1976: 34 (October 2nd, 1976 with the All Black's on the Back of the Comic) and Number 35 (With a Photo of Bjorn Borg, Joe Bugner and West Germany's Footbal Team on the Back of the Comic (and Franz Beckenbauer's image)) Bullet was a comic book published weekly in the UK during the 1970s. First published on 14 February 1976 by D.C. Thomson for 7p, it focused upon adventure, action, revenge, science fiction, war and sport. It was a popular comic for boys throughout its publication. The main character was a moustached, multi-talented, highly trained secret agent, aptly named Fireball. When his parents had died in a mysterious car crash when he was a young child, he became the ward of his father's friend Lord Peter Flint, a wartime hero (a.k.a. Warlord). Fireball had been trained by "Uncle Pete" (since childhood) in the arts of shooting, martial arts, sports and survival - this was as well as the usual reading and writing skills. The full Fireball story was secret but could be acquired by joining the "Fireball club" which gave you the story enclosed in a red, plastic wallet. This story was used as the key for a substitution cipher for encrypting/decrypting secret messages which often appeared in Bullet's central pages as a sequence of seemingly random numbers. You also received a Fireball pendant for joining. Fireball's original pendant (which he always wore) saved his life on one occasion - it shielded him from a long range sniper's bullet. Fireball's archenemy was Catriona Klansberg (a.k.a. "The Cat"). Fireball had a soft spot for her - he had a habit of letting her slip away after he had just thwarted her evil plan. She always appeared in the final panel of every strip to give a taster of the following week's adventure. In December 1978 the comic merged into the longer running Warlord comic. In December 2021, it was reported that a Fireball animated series was under discussion. Fireball: Bullet always included weekly stories about Fireball getting into various scrapes, going on dangerous missions, saving the world and defeating criminals - he was always able to maintain a sense of humour throughout the most death-defying situations. Some of the other stories included: Twisty: Twisty Lunnon was a fantastic footballer, with an attitude, who also raced pigeons in his spare time and sometimes had brushes with the law. He started off playing as an apprentice with 4th division Sleethorpe United. He had a crooked left foot (caused by a car crash) which allowed him to bend the ball with astonishing accuracy. Drawn by artist Tony Harding. Smasher: a 50-foot-tall (15 m), virtually indestructible robot which destroyed cities. It was controlled from a secret command bubble by Doctor Doom (not to be confused with Dr. Victor von Doom in Marvel Comics), an evil genius who planned to take over the world. Bullet ran several series for this story - they had to nuke it at the end. Wonder Mann: H.E. Mann had been raised by computers to become a world beating sportsman. A small radio/T.V "eye" linked Mann to Professor Wilkie and his assistant Tom Brace who were able to give remote assistance. He was seemingly unbeatab.
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