Charlie Peace's escapades had caused a sensation in working class Victorian society, with the criminal becoming something of a folk hero due to his constant evasion of the police.

[1] Soon after his eventual capture and execution a penny dreadful garishly recounting his exploits–Charles Peace or, The Adventures of a Notorious Burglar was published by G. Purkess of London, and ran to a hundred serialised issues between 1879 and 1880.

[5] At the time, Buster was moving towards becoming a humour comic but still ran adventure stories; "The Astounding Adventures of Charlie Peace" was one of three action-orientated serials designed to keep the title popular with older readers, appearing in the 27 June edition of Buster alongside similar action-humour story "Johnny Samson" (actually redrawn episodes of "Thunderbolt Jaxon" from Knockout) and science fiction tale "The Drowned World".

His planned heist would rapidly go off the rails or prove to be a lot less lucrative than imagined, with Peace remaining at liberty but failing to gain any substantial loot.

[7] The format changed in January 1968, when Peace was tricked into entering a time machine secreted in a safe and was sent forward to the present day, though beyond technology being added to the list of things thwarting Charlie's thefts.