Comic Cuts - 14 December

Our regular mid-month catch-up of recent releases is a bit sparse this time round. Only two books reprinting old British comics are available, although I should add that both Century 21 Vol. 3: Escape from Aquatraz, edited by Chris Bentley for Reynolds & Hearn, and Dan Dare: Safari in Space from Titan Books have been published; when I did the last update on 1 December I wasn't 100% sure they had appeared. Well, they definitely have.

As have the two December releases from Rebellion, Judge Anderson: The Psi Files (ISBN 978-1906735227) and Robo-Hunter: The Droid Files Vol. 1 (ISBN 978-1906735210), now shipping from Amazon.

And that's it. Told you things were quiet.

J. A. Jordan

Another "Mysteries That Have Me Mystified" column...

J. A. Jordan was a very prolific writer active for at least thirty years but who has remained stubbornly elusive as far as information goes. His writing CV is fascinating—to me at least—as it takes in most of the 'cheap' end of the market of three decades in one form or another.

His earliest publications appeared in the Aldine War Stories series which ran to 28 numbers in 1930-30, with Jordan contributing four 64-page yarns. Most of the authors were regulars of the boys' adventure market—Rowland Walker, Ernest McKeag, R. Coutts Armour (writing as Reid Whitley)—and it seems possible that Jordan also contributed to the anonymous Aldine Wild West Yarns series which ran 1932-33.

Between 1935 and 1942, Jordan wrote a number of novels for Mellifont Press, a Dublin-based printer who churned out cheap paperbacks for over twenty years, paying as little as £10 for a (short) book. All of Jordan's contributions were 48 or 64 pages long, bar one longer novel written for the juvenile series about a mystery goalkeeper called Dynamite. Apart from contributing to a couple of other cheap paperback markets (Gramol, Piccadilly Novels), I've not found any other work from Jordan's pen in the 1930s.

In 1941, he seems to have begun selling stories to Gerald G. Swan, who published them in a variety of magazines; these ranged from Westerns to Romance, fairy stories for the very young and two contributions to the Schoolgirls' Pocket Library. Another regular market was Featherstone Press, who published a number of further schoolgirls' adventure tales.

After the Second World War, Jordan began contributing romances to Pemberton and Westerns to Grant Hughes and Curtis Warren. He switched to gangster yarns when writing for Barrington Gray, using the pen-name Chris Wheatley, a fact related to me by Gray himself. Nine novels appeared in reasonably quick succession in 1950-53, with one later title appearing in 1956 but quite possibly sold years earlier.

From Gray I learned that Jordan was from "up North"—based in the Birmingham area. This was confirmed by Vic Hanson who, like Jordan, began writing for Brown Watson in the 1950s. Vic dedicated one of his books to him: "For J. A. Jordan—Fellow scribe". When I quizzed Vic about this many years later, he said that he had never met Jordan, and the dedication was inspired when he heard that Jordan was a fellow Brummie.

The odd thing is that the dedication appeared in Vic's 1963 novel Creatures of the Mist and Jordan's last known novel, Coffin Creek, had appeared in 1959, the last of eight Westerns that appeared under Jordan's name from Brown Watson.

Even odder is the fact that one of those eight wasn't written by Jordan. The 1957 novel Kansas Valley was, in fact, written by Albert King. An announced title that Jordan found he couldn't deliver? A mix-up with manuscripts? Is there a novel under the Ames King byline (Albert King's regular pseudonym) actually written by Jordan? Who knows? Sadly, not me.

These kind of errors do happen, and sometimes they favour the bibliographer. For instance, a novel credited to Ben Sarto on its cover was credited to J. A. Jordan on the title page. Whether Jordan contributed any other novels under the Sarto byline I cannot say. It's an unfortunate fact that all the books from this era are becoming increasingly scarce—the situation aggravated by the idiot policies of charity shops who throw out pre-decimal paperbacks because "they don't sell".

Hopefully someone can help me fill in some gaps in my knowledge of Jordan. Already active in 1931, presumably he was born before the century reached its teens; presumably he's lurking somewhere in the 1911 census as a young lad, maybe somewhere in the Birmingham area. Did he die around the time his last novel was published... could he be James Afred Jordan (1895-1960) who died in Birkenhead, or James Arthur Jordan (1902-1960) who died in Croydon? Or was he still active in 1963 when Vic Hanson dedicated a novel to him.

The British Library lists him as James A. Jordan, but mistakes are not unknown in the BL Catalogue. Barrington Gray referred to him as Joe Jordan, but may have been misremembering; when I spoke to him it was getting on for fifty years since he'd published his novels, after all.

Jordan wrote over 50 books... for all I know there are another 50 lurking under pen-names. If you know anything, please drop me a line.

Novels
Glory Guns. London, Aldine, Feb 1931.
Action Front. London, Aldine, Mar 1931.
Brave the Rifles. London, Aldine, Jul 1931.
Sterne of the Secret Service. London, Aldine, Oct 1931.
Death in the Wind. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1935.
Dynamite, Mystery Goalie. London & Dublin, Mellifont, Jul 1935.
The Love Nest. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1935.
Four Men in Her Life. London, Gramol, Dec 1935.
Moorland Love. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1936.
The Crimson Shadow. London, Gramol, Oct 1936.
The Gunboat Mystery. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1937.
The Grey Mask Men. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1938.
The Haunting Shadow. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1938.
The Death Singer. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1939.
Night Club Murder. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1939.
Matched with Mystery. London, Piccadilly Novels, Jan 1940.
The Murder Trap. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1940.
Out to Win. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1940.
Margot’s Mystery Mascot. London, Gerald Swan (Schoolgirls’ Pocket Library 5), Nov 1941.
The Devil’s Eye. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1942.
The Murder Mask. London & Dublin, Mellifont, 1942.
The Black Sheep of Harchester. London, Featherstone, 1944.
H.P. The Lone Scout. London, Featherstone, 1944.
The Mistress of Daneforth. London, Featherstone, 1944.
Rabbits and Raynore (and The Funk of the School). London, Featherstone, 1944.
The Witches of Silvermead School. London, Gerald Swan (Schoolgirls’ Pocket Library 20), 1945.
The ‘Snatching’ of Susan Smith. London, Featherstone, Dec 1946.
Guilty Hands. Manchester, T.A. & E. Pemberton, Jun 1948.
Love and Service. Manchester, T.A. & E. Pemberton, Jun 1948.
Love and the Veldt. Manchester, T.A. & E. Pemberton, Jun 1948.
Limehouse Incident. London, Grant Hughes, Apr 1949.
Cottonwood Gallows. London, Grant Hughes, Jul 1949.
Fighting Rangers. London, Curtis Warren, Jul 1950.
Rustler’s Trail. London, Curtis Warren, 1950?
Lone Sheriff. London, Curtis Warren, Jun 1951.
Dead Diggers Valley. London, Brown Watson, Jan 1955.
Tombstone Valley. London, Brown Watson, Aug 1956.
Ranger Guns. London, Brown Watson, 1957?
Boot Hill Bait. London, Brown Watson, Jan 1958.
Blood Feud. London, Brown Watson, Jun 1958.
Ghost Peak Plunder. London, Brown Watson, May 1959.
Coffin Creek. London, Brown Watson, Nov 1959.

Novels as Ben Sarto
Baby Moll (credited to J. A. Jordan on title page). London, Modern Fiction, Nov 1957.

Novels as Chris Wheatley
This Dame Spells Death. London, Grayling Publications, Sep 1950.
Dames, Diamonds and Death. London, Barrington Gray, Jan 1951.
Date for a Dame. London, Grayling Publications, Feb 1951.
Dizzy Dames Die Fast. London, Barrington Gray, May 1951.
Hot Dames—Cold Lead. London, Grayling Publications, Jun 1951.
Dead Dames Can’t Cheat. London, Barrington Gray, Sep 1951.
Murder at the Blue Garter. London, Barrington Gray, Sep 1952.
Red Ice. London, Barrington Gray, Sep 1952.
Baby Don’t Get Rough. London, Barrington Gray, Mar 1953.
Never Trust a Dame. London, Barrington Gray, Jan 1956.

Short Stories
Man She Distrusted (Yankee Romance Shorts 1, 1941)
Borrowed Sweetheart (Yankee Love Shorts 9, 1942)
Hal Manton’s Run-Out (Yankee Gang Shorts 20, 1942)
Summer Storm (Romance Shorts 8, Apr 1943; reprinted in Western Shorts 1, 1943?)
The Witch’s Daughter (Fairies Album 1944, 1943)
The Witch’s Comb (Fairies Album 1947, 1946)
Treasure at Dainstrang (Girls’ Fun, Feb 1947)
A Psychic in the Upper Third (Girls’ Fun, 16 Jun 1947)
Clean Sport (Scramble, May 1948)
The Icy Finger (Cute Fun 38, Aug 1950)
Sparks at Strathdene (Giant Story Book for Boys, 1957?)

Paperback Cover Cavalcade 9

To prove that Digit Books published some good science fiction alongside their originals, a gallery of classics...

Search the Sky by C. M. Kornbluth & Frederik Pohl (Digit Books D352, May 1960)

Here is another classic Science Fiction yarn by those superb writers in that genre who gave you The Space Merchants and Gladiator-at-Law. Their subject this time is the fate of the colonists who went out from Earth to settle on the far planets beyond our Universe.
__One of the latter undertook a daring and hazardous one-man mission. An odd mission. He didn't even know what he was looking for. But, all the same, he had to go.
__This well-written and ingenious novel gives the story of his fantastic experiences...

Originally published by Ballantine Books in 1954. Not much I can add to this one except to say a belated Happy Birthday to Fred Pohl, 90 years old on 29 November and still blogging.

Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein (Digit Books D368, Jul 1960) Cover by Richard Powers

This truly fascinating book is handled with all skill in this genre which is typical of the well-known author.
__An agent of the Federal Bureau of Security, disguised as a commercial traveller, arrives from the Moon, carrying with him an incredibly valuable spool of microfilm. He becomes Captain Gilead, explorer and lecturer. But the transformation fails to deceive those who wish to relieve him of the film... and they close in.

This is an abridged version of Heinlein's Assignment in Eternity as published by Fantasy Press in 1953, containing only two of the four stories of the original, the novella "Gulf" and the novelette "Elsewhen"; the other two stories were reprinted as Lost Legacy (Digit D386, September 1960). The cover is by Richard Powers, who also drew the 1953 Signet edition of Assignment, but that was a different cover entirely. I've no idea where this one originally appeared.

Fury by Henry Kuttner (Digit Books D413, Nov 1960) Cover by Ed Emsh

This earth is long since dead, blasted in a self-sustaining chain reaction. Remnants of the human race have settled on Venus, and have finally organized themselves into a static, class-ridden society in huge, marvellously efficient, eventless citadels, buried beneath the Venusian seas. The rulers are Immortals, genetic mutations who live a thousand years or more; their subjects are ordinary people like those who once inhabited Earth.
__Yet this amazing tale is neverthless a novel of violence. It describes graphically the struggle of the human race to aspire once again to the stars.

Originally serialised in Astounding in 1947 under their collaborative pen-name Lawrence O'Donnell, this was actually a collaborative novel written by Kuttner and his wife, C. L. Moore, a sequel to their story "Clash By Night", which had appeared in 1943. Anyone recognise the Ed Emsh cover from its original appearance?

Comic Cuts: Charts w/e 5 December

Charts for week ending 5 December 2009. Please note that figures are very approximate. Last week's position (where known) in brackets.

Top 11 Annuals
1 (1) Beano Annual (approx. 27,000)
2 (3) Hannah Montana Annual (approx. 18,500)
3 (4) Ben 10 Alien Force Annual (approx. 18,000)
4 (2) The Official Doctor Who Annual (approx. 17,750)
5 (7) Top Gear Annual (approx. 17,500)
6 (6) Horrid Henry's Annual (approx. 15,300)
7 (8) High School Musical Annual (approx. 15,000)
8 (5) Peppa Pig: The Official Annual (approx. 14,500)
9 (10) Match Annual (approx. 13,750)
10 (9) WWE Annual (approx. 13,500)
11 (-) Broons Annual (approx. 13,000)

Paperback Cover Cavalcade 8

Salamander War by Charles Carr (Digit Book R616, Sep 1962)

A distant planet. The scene is Bel, where only a small fraction of the surface is habitable by humans.
__A ruthless foe. Here colonists from Earth are attacked by a foe whose weapons are unimaginable by man...
__Tense... enthralling... eerie.

The great system of oxygen plants that has been developed to make life endurable for the colonists of Bel is threatened and the war of a nightmare follows. There is conflict, too, within the human ranks between the fanatical pacifists, who are prepared to die unresisting, and the men who prepare grimly to fight for the survival of the human race.

Originally published in hardback by Ward, Lock & Co. in 1955. This is a sequel to Colonists of Space (Ward, Lock & Co., 1954), also reprinted by Digit in September 1962, although the numbering (R617) may have given the impression that the books should be read in the reverse order.

Colonists of Space by Charles Carr (Ward Lock 25, 1955)

Carr was the pen-name of Sydney Charles Mason (1901-1985), about whom very little is known. Born in Richmond, he may have been an officer in the army in the 1920s, stationed in Africa. An announcement in The Times notes the engagement of a Sydney Charles Mason, of the South Staffordshire Regiment, elder son of the late Mr. C. R. Mason and of Mrs. Mason of Hampton, Middlesex, to Muriel Lucie Bodman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bodman of Kenora, Thames Ditton, in January 1929. The couple married some 20 months later. A son, Anthony A. C. Mason, was born in 1931.

Mason's first novels appeared in 1937 and he kept up a solid output until the mid-1970s, mostly westerns and romances, under a variety of pen-names. His most popular books were probably those featuring the Lone Rider (as Colt Henderson) and the Walt Warren westerns (as John Langley).

Islands in the Sky by Arthur C. Clarke (Digit Books R802, Jan 1964) Cover by R. A. Osborne

Roy Malcolm is the surprised winner of a T.V. contest sponsored by World Airways and for his prize chooses to go to Inner Station—a rocket base hundreds of miles above the Earth. After undergoing a searching aptitude and physical fitness test, he finds himself en route for the Station—little expecting the terrifying mystery and hazards he was to encounter when he arrived.

Originally published by Sidgwick & Jackson in 1952. The author should need no introduction. I went mad for reading Clarke's books in the school holidays of 1975, having discovered his short stories in the pages of Speed & Power. I read everything I could get my hands on, which, back in those days, was pretty much everything he'd written. Kept my two library cards very busy that summer did Mr. Clarke. And I got to meet him, briefly, at a science fiction convention in 1979 when he sat down next to me at a lecture. I wish I could say how amazing an experience it was, but I think I mumbled something about being a fan and then he was surrounded by other people and wandered off.

Late Final by Lewis Gibbs (Digit Books R487, May 1961) Cover by Paul Rainey

Up to the minute, or even to-morrow's story, this story courageously views the prospect that lies ahead of humanity to-day. It is told in the first person by a man who has been in a prison camp in Siberia for ten years. All his English companions have died. Suddenly he is released, full of fears and reluctantly free, and dropped, without mean of identification, from an aeroplane over England.
__He finds it devastated by atomic World War III, sees the deserted ruins of London, and wanders, bearded and ragged, about the home counties.

Originally published by J. M. Dent & Sons in 1951 and well-received on publication. Gibbs was the pen-name of Joseph Walter Cove, born in Mortlake, Surrey, on 10 May 1891, the son of Joseph and Eliza Cove. I don't know much about him, only that he served as a duty gunner and gas instructor with the Royal Field Artillery during the First World War. Before volunteering for service in January 1917 he was a teacher living in Barnes, London. He married Louie A. P. Gibbs in Farnham, Surrey, in 1918—the inspiration for his Lewis Gibbs pen-name probably.

As Gibbs he wrote a number of novels and non-fiction books, mostly biographies of historical figures. He died in Croydon, Surrey, in 1973.

PUBLICATIONS

Novels
A Day's Tale. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1932.
Excursion to Lilliput. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1933.
On the Hill. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1933; New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1933.
Earthquake in the Triangle. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1934.
Parable For Lovers. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1934.
Michael and His Angels. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1936.
Lois in Love. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1937.
Kitty Villiers. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1942.
William and the Emperor. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1945.
Late Final. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1951.
The Good Beauties. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1953.
Gowns and Satyr's Legs. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1958.

Non-fiction
Vanessa and the Dean. The ironic history of Esther Vanhomrigh and Jonathan Swift. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1938.
The Diary of Fanny Burney, selected and edited by Lewis Gibbs, London, J. M. Dent & Sons (Everyman's Library), 1940.
Sheridan. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1947.
The Admirable Lady Mary. The life and times of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 1689-1792. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1949.
The Silver Circle. London, J. M. Dent & Sons, 1963.

Others
Sir Richard Steele. The Tatler, edited by Lewis Gibbs. London, J. M. Dent & Sons (Everyman's Library 993), 1953.
Evelina; or, A Young Lady's Entrance Into the World by Fanny Burney, introduction by Lewis Gibbs. London, J. M. Dent & Sons (Everyman's Library 352), 1958.
Sheridan's Plays by Richard Brinley Sheridan, introduction and notes by Lewis Gibbs. London, J. M. Dent & Sons (Everyman's Library 95), 1956.
Gray's Poems, Letters and Essays by Thomas Gray, introduction by John Drinkwater; biographical notes by Lewis Gibbs. London, J. M. Dent & Sons (Everyman's Library 628), 1966.

Comic Cuts - 11 December

I've not had much time to devote to Bear Alley this week and that situation may continue on the run-up to Christmas as I was asked to write five articles for a book with a deadline only weeks away. The book's in Spanish, so some poor sod is going to have to translate it and I'm sure they'll need all the time they can get trying to make sense of my English, which is rapidly turning into my second language behind the grunts, squeaks and gasps that have taken over. I've reached the age where I can't get in or out of a chair without a sigh or a groan. If I vocalise at any time during the day, nine times out of ten it's "eh?" or "huh?" The world beyond my window makes me go "tsk".

I find myself in a bizarre "coals to Newcastle" situation writing about Jesus Blasco for this Spanish publication. Not that I'm complaining. I'll cheerfully write about Jesus Blasco 'till the cows come home. Unfortunately, the cows are expected to arrive before the month is out, and with 15,500 words to hack out plus the work I need to put into Eagles Over the Western Front, things have been a tad busy.

The good thing about getting back to writing rather than cleaning up artwork is that it requires research and we continue to discover all kinds of things about the history and the people behind the comics that entertained us all as kids. Just this week we—by which I mean David Roach and I—have identified one of the main artists who drew Dogfight Dixon and Jet-Ace Logan for the Thriller Picture Library. This was actually a three-way discovery, as it was Keith Chapman—a long-time supporter of Bear Alley—who got the ball rolling. Keith writes westerns, runs the Black Horse Extra website, and has just set out on the dusty trail of self-publishing with Misfit Lil Cheats the Hangrope, published in July and a new book, Liberty and a Law Badge, out any day now.

Oh, and the artist who did those episodes of Dogfight Dixon and Jet-Ace Logan was Alan Pollack. Now all we have to do is find out something about Alan Pollack.

Next week should see the return of an old favourite... long-time readers will recall that I ran a whole bunch of Clarks Commandos yarns some while back but they've not been seen on Bear Alley for about 18 months now. Well, I've turned up another series drawn by the wonderful Tom Kerr. If all goes to plan, the first episode should appear on Tuesday. And on the run-up to Christmas, I'm hoping to have a few more treats in store. If I get the work finished. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

(* For no other reason than the fact that he get's mentioned above, a piece of original Dogfight Dixon cover art by Allesandro Biffignandi. Gorgeous!)

Comic Cover Cavalcade 5

(* Artwork © IPC Media.)

Comic Cover Cavalcade 4

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Comic Cover Cavalcade 3

As today sees the release of Egmont's Buster Souvenir Special, I thought I'd change tack for the latest batch of John Steel/Thriller Picture Library covers. A run of Steel's adventures was reprinted in the mid-1960s in Buster Adventure Library, so today's batch celebrates that series. It's worth noting that two of the covers (#13 and #23) were actually reprints of Spy 13 covers, another Thriller series.

(* Artwork © IPC Media.)

Comic Cover Cavalcade 2

More marvellous covers from the John Steel series.

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Comic Cover Cavalcade 1

It's past midnight again and I've just realised I've nothing lined up for today's blog... Lucky for me I had my camera out recently, so here are some covers from the John Steel series, published in the Thriller Picture Library way back in 1961.

(* Artwork © IPC Media.)

Fleetway Pocket Library authors

The following list contains the names of as many of the scriptwriters who contributed to Fleetway's pocket libraries, including War, Battle, Air Ace, Love Story, True Life, Thriller, Cowboy, Super Detective and Schoolgirls. The few records available often covered only a part of the lifetime of each of these titles, so the listing is certainly incomplete.

A. Carney Allan
Angus Allan
George Allen
G. Allman
Donne Avenell
Fred G. Baker
J. Baker
W. Howard Baker
Leslie T. Barnard
E. J. Bensberg
David E. Bingley
Peter Bird
J. Boland
Sydney J. Bounds
D. Boutland
Pat Brookman
Noel Browne
R. Brownrigg (Mrs)
Gordon W. Brunt
N. Buchanan
Alma Buley (Miss)
Roy Bullen
H. K. Bulmer
Mike Butterworth
Ann Cameron
S. Carrington (Miss)
John Newton Chance
Percy Clarke
Roger P. Clegg
Barry Coker
Gordon M. Coombs
Eileen Corduroy
Ralph Coveney
E. G. Cowan
J. Cregan
Maurice Creswick
Dugold Cumming-Skinner
Rinaldo D'Ami
Alan Davidson
A. Deam (Miss)
A. M. Digby
Leslie S. Dofort
G. Dunn
James Edgar
M. Edwards
Ellis W. Evans
G. L. Evans
L. J. Evans
H. Fairfield
C. E. Fearn
Mary Feldwick
Alan Fennell
Ronald Fleming
P. R. French
Conrad Frost
H. J. Gammidge
Diana M. Garbutt
H. T. Gardner
J. Gardner (Miss)
Brian T. Garland
R. Garner
H. Gaston
H. H. C. Gibbons
Norah M. Gibbs (Mrs)
Kenneth Giggal
M. Scott Goodall
G. Gowler
G. Cecil Graveley
Roderic Graeme
Eileen W. Graham (Mrs)
Vera E. Greene (Miss)
Paul Greenfield
E. H. Hamil
Rex Hardinge
A. S. Harris
Harry Harrison
J. Heale
Eric Hebden
A. W. Henderson
James H. Higgins
V. A. L. Holding
Edward Holmes
J. Hoopell (Miss)
J. Hopkinson (Mrs)
C. Howard (Mrs)
V. Humpherson
Jack Hunt
John Hunter
Eileen Jackson
Graeme Jeffries
K. Jones
R. Keane
Danny Kelleher
Ian B. Kellie
Bob Kesten
Albert King
T. Kirby
Dinah Lacey
H. Lamb
Douglas Leach
D. Leader [poss. David Leader]
M. Lee (Miss)
C. A. Lewins
Eric Leyland
William J. B. Line
J. Lockhead
Derek Long
Justin Long
Roy McAdorey
J. P. McCrae (Mrs)
E. L. McKeag
Leila MacKinlay (Mrs)
Wilfred McNeilly
Ken McOwan
Terry Magee
George P. Mann
John Marsh
H. Martin (Miss)
Thomas H. Martin
J. Mather
Leonard Matthews
C. Mattin
Leonard J. Meddick
Ken Mennell
Mavis Miller
Pat Mills
A. Milner
G. Mitchell
James Moffatt
R. A. Montague
Michael Moorcock
T. E. Moore
David R. Motton
Marie Muir (Mrs)
Peter O'Donnell
H. R. Oldham
Gil Page
B. Palmer (Miss)
A. G. B. Parlett
G. R. Parvin
F. R. Passmore
Willie Patterson
Frank S. Pepper
R. Perrins
G. Perrott
R. Phillips
Ernest Player
C. E. Plummer (Miss)
L. M. Plummer (Mrs)
R. V. Pothecary
N. Powell
Stewart Pride
W. Prout
S. Pyke (Mrs)
M. Raymond [poss. Moore Raymond]
David Roberts
---- Robinson
---- Robson
Ken Roscoe
E. L. Rosman
J. Roswell
B. Rowland
D. A. Sampson
David Satherley
---- Scott
J. E. Serby
Jerry Siegel
F. E. Smith
J. W. Smith
Robert Sommerville
Gordon Sowman
William Spence
James Stagg
Joseph Stamper
William E. Stanton-Hope
Peter Stewart
J. A. Stockbridge
V. Stokes
James A. Storrie
Patricia M. Stott
S. Strickland-Clark
Leslie Swainson
M. Telfall (Mrs)
A. Terry
Colin F. Thomas
Graeme Thomas
J. & S. Thomas
P. Thomas
D. Thompson
G. Thorne (Miss)
Eileen Tierney (Miss)
E. C. Tubb
Tom Tully
Walter Tyrer
---- Van Zyn
Adrian Vincent
Cyril G. Walker
Alf F. Wallace
J. Walsham
W. Ward
A. Warner
Len Wenn
Marjorie Wenn
M. Wheeler
John Wheway
Joan Whitford
Philip Wilding
Richard Wise
H. W. Wogan
---- Woods
Norman Worker
R. P. Yunnil (?)