This left them in charge of a large number of weekly comics aimed at younger readers, including seasoned titles such as Eagle, Lion and Valiant.

[1] Thunder was IPC Magazines' first attempt at a new boys' adventure weekly, and the experienced Jack Le Grand was assigned to assemble the new title.

After quaffing the Elixir of Life, Adam Eterno is doomed to immortality and drifts through time trying to find a solid gold weapon that can kill him.

[16] Baron Maximilien Von Klorr is Germany's most fearsome ace pilot of World War I - partly due to being helped by a gigantic bats.

As a result, he is able to lead an escape from tyrannical new circus owner Archer Spang,[3] with the likes of Bengal tiger Khan, gorilla Chang, chimpanzees Petto and Tikka and kangaroo Ozzie joining him on the run.

[20] A medieval gauntlet is still haunted by the fearsome Judge Flint gives whoever wears it superhuman strength and invulnerability, and is discovered by ne'er-do-well Tom Stokes.

Unfortunately a programming error means the fearsome war machine will only respond to the voice of Lance corporal Ernest "Excused Boots" Bates, a Cockney layabout.

[25] Tom Taylor's father is missing, presumed dead in the jungles of South America, when the boy discovers a coded map among his effects.