Romeo Brown

Romeo Brown was a British comic strip published in the Daily Mirror from 1954 to 1962.

Romeo Brown
Creative team
Written byAlfred Mazure, Peter O'Donnell
Artist(s)Alfred Mazure, Jim Holdaway

It was originally written and illustrated by Alfred Mazure; Mazure was replaced in 1957 by writer Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway. It featured the adventures of Romeo Brown, a dashing private detective and reluctant ladies' man. The strip was cancelled unexpectedly by the chairman of the group who, according to O'Donnell, said he couldn't understand it.[1] O'Donnell had by this time completed the next adventure and Holdaway had illustrated the first 8 days' worth.

O'Donnell recalled in a 2002 interview: "This was a strip running in the tabloid Daily Mirror, for which I was writing "Garth". The editor was dissatisfied so he engaged Jim Holdaway to take over the drawing and asked me to write the scripts. That's how Jim and I first met, and we ran the strip for seven years, Romeo Brown was a comic private detective, and my brief was that every story was to revolve around a girl or girls, and the more clothes I could safely get off them the better."[2]

O'Donnell followed Romeo Brown with the comic strip Modesty Blaise in the Evening Standard, which Holdaway illustrated from its debut on 13 May 1963 until his death in 1970.

List of Romeo Brown stories
# Title Artist Strip Numbers Dates
01 Romeo Brown Mazure N208 - N231 01/09/54 - 28/09/54
02 Mazure N232 - N250 29/09/54 - 20/10/54
03 Mazure N251 - N271 21/10/54 - 13/11/54
04 Mazure N272 - N291 15/11/54 - 07/12/54
05 Mazure N292 - N310, O1 - O7 08/12/54 - 08/01/55
06 Looking After Bobby Mazure O8 - O37 10/01/55 - 12/02/55
07 The Missing Will Mazure O38 - O119 14/02/55 - 14/06/55
08 Caribbean Pirates Mazure O120 - O189 15/06/55 - 03/09/55
09 Tiger Girl Mazure O190 - O244 05/09/55 - 07/11/55
10 The Girl With The Heart Shaped Birthmark Mazure O245 - O289, P1 - P28 08/11/55 - 02/02/56
11 Find the Lady Mazure P29 - P81 03/02/56 - 05/04/56
12 Marriage Ltd Mazure P82 - P142 06/04/56 - 15/06/56
13 Beauty Queen Mazure P143 - P208 16/06/56 - 31/08/56
14 His Last Joke Mazure P209 - P268 01/09/56 - 09/11/56
15 Double Trouble Mazure P269 - P310, Q1 - Q18 10/11/56 - 21/01/57
16 Fingle's Follies Holdaway Q19 - Q81 22/01/57 - 04/04/57
17 The Missing Ming Vase Holdaway Q82 - Q140 05/04/57 - 13/06/57
18 Romeo the Ruthless Holdaway Q141 - Q204 14/06/57 - 27/08/57
19 The Girl and the Ghoul Holdaway Q205 - Q266 28/08/57 - 07/11/57
20 The Secret of Black Barbary Holdaway Q267 - Q310, R1 - R20 08/07/57 - 23/01/58
21 The Empress's Garters Holdaway R21 - R89 24/01/58 - 15/04/58
22 Romeo Goes West Holdaway R90 - R157 16/04/58 - 03/07/58
23 The Frolics of Fifi Holdaway R158 - R217 04/07/58 - 11/09/58
24 The Trouble With Tania Holdaway R218 - R287 12/09/58 - 02/12/58
25 The Snow Maiden Holdaway R288 - R310, S1 - S37 03/12/58 - 12/02/59
26 Lord of the Fiery Dragon Holdaway S38 - S111 13/02/59 - 11/05/59
27 The Fightin' Females Holdaway S112 - S180 12/05/59 - 30/07/59
28 The Gipsy's Curse Holdaway S181 - S263 31/07/59 - 04/11/59
29 The King of the Beatniks Holdaway S264 - S310, T1 - T22 05/11/59 - 26/01/60
30 Gigi and the Head-Shrinkers Holdaway T23 - T93 27/01/60 - 19/04/60
31 The Nobblers Holdaway T94 - T173 20/04/60 - 21/07/60
32 The Baffling Ballerina Holdaway T174 - T251 22/07/60 - 20/10/60
33 The Con-Man Holdaway T252 - T311, U1 - U14 21/10/60 - 17/01/61
34 Arabian Knight Holdaway U15 - U98 18/01/61 - 26/04/61
35 Where There's a Will Holdaway U99 - U175 27/04/61 - 25/07/61
36 The Admiral's Grand-Daughter Holdaway U176 - U246 26/07/61 - 16/10/61
37 The Missing Miss Peach Holdaway U247 - U308, V1 - V10 17/10/61 - 11/01/62
38 The Richest Girl In The World Holdaway V11 - V88 12/01/62 - 12/04/62
39 Romeo On The Run Holdaway V89 - V161 13/04/62 - 07/07/62

References
  1. "Jim Holdaway".
  2. "Exclussive interview with PETER O'DONNELL". www8.cs.umu.se. Archived from the original on 2002-10-17.
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