King of Crooks - Jerry Siegel

The star of King of Crooks is The Spider, an old British comics character who first appeared in the weekly comic Lion in 1965. Created by Ted Cowan and Reg Bunn, writer and artist respectively, The Spider was soon to gain a writer that was known the world over… Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, who wrote most of the stories over the next 4 years until The Spider vanished from weekly magazines, except in reprints. My first encounter with The Spider was in the legendary (at least in British comic fans eyes) Vulcan in the mid 70’s. Vulcan was a short lived comic that reprinted the greatest of ... more