Space Comics

Arnold Book Company’s Space Comics (1953–1954) was a brisk 32-issue British anthology series that launched readers into the atomic-age cosmos each month. Most often written by Denis Gifford and drawn by Mick Anglo—the latter already a key figure in UK comics—the title offered a steady diet of rocket-ship adventures, alien encounters, and futuristic heroics. While short-lived, it stands as a tidy snapshot of early-1950s British space-race fantasy, before Anglo would go on to co-create the nation’s own answer to Superman.