TYPHOONS AND HURRICANES, WITH A TIGER THROWN IN FOR GOOD MEASURE...

Copyright REBELLION

I remember first seeing Typhoon Tracy sometime around the mid-to-late '60s in a comic in my primary school classroom during a break one day.  Couldn't tell you if it was an old copy of Hurricane or a then-current issue of the merged title of Tiger and Hurricane, maybe even an Annual or Summer Special, but whichever publication I saw him in was a classmate's and not my own, which is why I no longer recall (if I ever did) precisely which printed weekly or yearly periodical it was where I first laid my baby-blue eyes on him.

Hurricane lasted only 63 issues, from February 1964 until May '65, though the Annuals continued until 1973 (for '74), so it had a good long run past the life of its weekly counterpart.  Typhoon Tracy was the star, similar to Valiant's Captain Hurricane, though Tracy was a sailor, not a marine.  Close to 30 years ago, I obtained numbers 1 and 3 and they've sat in a cupboard for all this time without me ever reading them.  "Must get #2" I often thought, as I later normally bought #s 1-3 of most new titles, even if I never continued with them.

Anyway, before I bore you all to death, I recently acquired #2 and finally completed the trio, so I thought I'd show you the covers of them, along with a combined ish of Tiger and Hurricane, which hopefully you'll appreciate seeing.  Did any of you Crivvies (the older ones obviously) ever buy Hurricane back in the day, and if so, what did you think of it?  Start typing those comments now - every one gratefully appreciated, not just by me, but by your fellow Crivvies too.  So who's going to be the first to take the plunge?  (And say if you'd like to see some contents.)