Sexton Blake Volume 1
Published: 10 October 2026
Format: A4, 164 black & white pages, paperback with matte cover
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"Guv'nor! The— The ceiling! It's coming down on us!
We— We're trapped in a giant press!"
To many he was “the office boy’s Sherlock Holmes” or “the other Baker Street detective” but a saga of over 3,800 individual cases and 150 million words cannot be so easily summarised in five simple words. Dorothy L. Sayers was rather more eloquent when she claimed that Sexton Blake’s stories “present the nearest modern approach to a national folk-lore.”
Sexton Blake had recently celebrated his 74th anniversary when his adventures began appearing in Valiant, introducing a new audience to the detective's thrilling adventures—a new style of Gothic chiller where every stairway might unfold into a slide, where flagstones and floors have trapdoors, and secret panels line passageways; walls and ceilings shift, underground chambers fill with water and shimmering ghosts draw the adventurers into deadly danger.
These cliffhanger serials had a history dating back in comics to the 1940s, a history explored in the introduction to this volume. Reprinted here are some of the most exciting, written and drawn for the pages of Valiant by Harold Lamb and Eric Dadswell during the late 1960s when the weekly comic was at its peak. This volume, and its companion (due November), reprints the full run of the Blake strip from 1968-70, along with a strip from Valiant Annual and five strips from the Valiant Book of Sexton Blake, published to celebrate Blake's appearance on TV where he and Tinker were played by Laurence Payne and Roger Foss.
Collected for the first time, these stories still offer all the thrills and chills they did sixty years ago.
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