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The Seekers: Murder in the Boneyard Les Lilly

The Seekers is a British comic strip that ran in the Daily Sketch from 1966 to 1971. The main characters, Susanne Dove and Jacob Benedick, are two top secret agents employed by Una Frost, director of"the Seekers', an elite agency that focuses on finding missing persons. MURDER IN THE BONEYARD, originally serialized as THE BONEYARD CLUB was the first installment of the popular British series as written by Les Lilley and illustrated by John Burns. The strip bears some resemblance to another strip Burns later drew for a brief period, MODESTY BLAISE. The female characters were consistently drawn in an enticing manner, indicating Burns evident intent to challenge the limits of the daily British newspaper strip conventions of the times. LUCKY COMIX has painstakingly cleaned up the original dailies and reformatted them into a graphic novelette that will be sure to please fans of classic comic strips as well as those who just enjoy a cracking good mystery with very pretty girls. We hope you'll enjoy Susanne and Jacob's first outing as THE SEEKERS.