First published on 14 February 1976 by D.C. Thomson for 7p, it focused upon adventure, action, revenge, science fiction, war and sport.

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.

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.

Fireball's original pendant (which he always wore) saved his life on one occasion - it shielded him from a long range sniper's bullet.