David Nockels

David Nockels was a prolific contributor to magazines and books, specialising in nature, animals and the environment. His illustrations began appearing in Look and Learn in around 1967 and he was also a regular contributor to World of Wonder in the early 1970s, at which time he was living in Shooter's Hill and also acting as an occasional agent.

David Nockels contributed illustrations to many books on wildlife subjects between 1967-79, amongst the many titles he contributed to including Arthur by Ernest Dudley (1970) and the Atlas series from Heinemann (Atlas of Wildlife, Atlas of Plant Life, Atlas of the Sea, 1972-74); Young World Productions, Hamlyn, Bodley Head, Salamandar and Ward Lock also published his work.

In 1980 he began working for Methuen Children's Books and wrote and illustrated a series of pop-up books entitled 'Animals in Action' (1981) as well as two children's story books, Hungry Little Chimpanzee and Little Lost Duckling, both published in 1982. Nockels also wrote and illustrated the 'Naughty Pets Board Book' series for Deans International (1985), which included the titles as Percy and Katie in Trouble, Billie and Bertie at the Seaside, Bobby and Tom have a Feast and Beckie and Jamie on the Farm.

Examples of David Nockels' artwork can be found for sale at the Illustration Art Gallery.

Kevin Nowlan

American artist Kevin Nowlan has been active in the comics' fan press since the early 1980s. Born in Chandron, Nebraska, on 7 February 1958, Kevin C. Nowlan graduated from High School and attended the Salina, Kansas Area Vocational-Technical School, where he learned the basics of art, layout and design. After two years he took a job with a local printing firm creating and designing brochures, letter headings and adverts.

He submitted illustrations to The Comics Journal and was commissioned by editor Gary Groth to produce a number of covers, beginning with an X-Men cover for issue 68 (November 1981); Nowlan went on to produce covers and spot illustrations for both The Comics Journal and Amazing Heroes (including a fully-painted Supergirl cover for the latter) over the next couple of years.

His work was noticed by inker Terry Austin and Nowlan found himself pencilling a fill-in issue of Doctor Strange  (#57) before taking over Moon Knight from Bill Sienkiewicz. This proved to be a disaster and a he quit after only three-and-a-half issues; however, the work proved popular and he was offered more work with Marvel (Daredevil, a Nightcrawler or Long Shot mini-series) and by DC (Star Trek, a Batman graphic novel, an Aquaman mini-series), all of which he turned down. Instead, he drew strips for National Lampoon and concentrated on posters and covers for the major comics' publishers, which allowed him to draw strips such as "Grimwood's Daughter" (a back-up strip in Dalgoda) for Fantagraphics.

He has subsequently worked for both DC and Marvel, drawing The Outsiders and Green Lantern Corps for the former and New Mutants for the latter. Complaints from readers that he had made the Mutants too cartoony, led to Nowlan working primarily as an inker from 1988. In this role he has continued to work for Marvel, DC. Wildstorm and Image. Some of the highlights of this work includes Batman: Sword of Azrael (1992), Aliens: Salvation (1993), Superman vs. Aliens (1995) and Superman: Distant Fires (1997). In 1999, he began drawing the adventures of young boy-genius "Jack B. Quick" for Alan Moore's Tomorrow Stories.

More recently he has been involved in the Batman Confidential series and "Metal Man" in DC's weekly Wednesday Comics, inking the pencils of José Luis García-López, and the one-shot Hellboy: Buster Oakley Gets His Wish (2011), written by Mike Mignola.

Nowlan was the subject of Eric Nolen-Weatherington's collection, Modern Masters Volume 4, published by Twomorrows Publishing in 2004. He lives in Kansas with his wife, Deanne.


Examples of Kevin Nowlan's artwork can be found for sale at the Illustration Art Gallery.

Alexander Oliphant

Alexander George Oliphant was a Scottish artist, born on 2 May 1911, who was exhibiting paintings in the 1930s at which time he was living in Grangemouth. Oliphant was living in London (at 30 Bedford Chambers, Piazza, City of London) at least as early as 1945 and moved to 9 Graham Terrace, Westminster around 1948, then 23 St George's Court, Brompton Road, South Kensington, around 1949.

For at least a decade [1952-62], Oliphant had a studio at 4 Cavaye Studios, Cavaye Place, Kensington SW10. Around 1962, he moved to 55 Crompton Court, Brompton Road, South Kensington, SW3, where he was to live until his death in the autumn of 1971, aged 60.

He contributed to Eagle Annual, Daily Mirror Book for Boys, and was the artist who illustrated 'Sea Change', Richard Armstrong's award-winning novel, and the series "Sink the Scharnhorst!", in Ranger in 1965-66. He was subsequently a prolific contributor of Second World War illustrations to the early issues of World of Wonder shortly before his death.

He was married to Thora M. Goldsmith (nee Clee), the former wife of William L. Goldsmith, in Paddington in 1947. Thora, born in Kings Norton, Worcestershire, in 1911, died in London in 1968, aged 56.

You can find original artwork by Alexander Oliphant for sale at the Illustration Art Gallery.

José Ortiz

Of all the Spanish artists who found themselves working for British publishers during the British comics' boom of the 1950s-1960s, José Ortiz was one of the longest survivors. Such is his longevity, that he has fans for each of the decades he worked in the UK: those who grew up in the 1960s will remember his as the artist of countless war libraries  as well as UFO Agent and its sequel Smokeman in Eagle; fans in the 1970s are more likely to remember his work in nursery or girls comics or his eight month run as the artist of "The Persuaders" in TV Action; in the 1980s he helped relaunch the Eagle with fantasies "The Tower King" and "The Fifth Horseman" and went on to draw the long-running horror series "The Thirteenth Floor" and various tales of the genetically-adapted warrior "Rogue Trooper".

At the same time, Ortiz is widely recognised as one of the masters of comic art in his native Spain as the artist of "Hombre" and "Burton y Cyb" and one of the most popular contributors to the American horror magazines published by James Warren.

Born José Ortiz Moya in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain, on 1 September 1932, the son of a painter of watercolours, he was the younger brother of Leopoldo Ortiz by almost exactly two years, but the two progressed through the comics industry almost in parallel during the 1950s. After winning a competition held by Chicos magazine, at the age of 16 Ortiz began working for Manuel Gago's Editorial Maga publishing company on the series El Espia [The Spy] in 1951, which he signed Zitro (Ortiz backwards). Gago was the hugely popular creator of "El Guerrero del Antifaz" [The Warrior Mask] and had moved to Valencia, where the strip was published by Juan Bautista Sorianos' Editorial Valencia. Ortiz and others — Leopoldo Ortiz and Luis Bermejo amongst them — joined Gago, Miguel Quesada and Pastor Eduardo Vañó in Valencia, helping to establish what has become known as the Escuela Valenciana or Valencian school of art.

Ortiz worked extensively for Editorial Maga for the next decade, working on El Capitan Don Nadie [Captain Don Nobody] (1952), El Principe Pablo [Prince Paul] (covers only, 1953-54), Coleccion Comandos (1954), Sebastián Vargas (1954), Don Barry, El Terremoto [Dan Barry, Earthquake] (1954), Balin (1955), Pantera Negra [Black Panther] (1956), El duque negro [The Black Duke] (1957), Apache (1958), Bengala (1959) and Johnny Fogata (1960). Of these, Ortiz was probably best-known for the western adventures of Don Barry, which ran for 76 issues and 3 'annuals' in 1954-57; Ortiz also drew the first 31 issues of another popular western, Johnny Fogata.

By the late 1950s, Ortiz was also establishing himself with other publishers, such as Toray, with such strips as Sigur el Wikingo [Sigur the Viking] and stories of the wild west in the anthology Hazañas del Oeste; for Bruguera he produced stories for Bisonte Extra Ilustrada, distributed almost exclusively in Argentina, and adaptations for Colección Historias such as "Los Viajes de Gulliver" [Gulliver's Travels] and "Las Cruzadas" [The Crusades].

Ortiz had made his British debut in 1957 with "In Love's Trap" in D. C. Thomson's early romantic pocket library Love and Life; other early sales to Thriller Picture Library and Top Spot followed, but it was 1960 before he established himself as a regular in Ted Bensberg's war libraries department, producing three dozen stories for War, Battle, War at Sea and Air Ace libraries between 1960-67. In 1962-63 he drew the short-lived "Caroline Baker, Barrister-at-Law" for the Daily Express, preparing for the task of illustrating the adventures of a female lawyer by coming to the UK and making sketches at a magistrate's court.

In 1964, Ortiz took over the character of John Brody for Boys' World and produced "The Green Men" in colour on the rear page for seven weeks. He later took over the adventures of "UFO Agent" Major Grant in the original Eagle, which, exploiting the popularity for American superheroes that followed the appearance of the Batman TV show, became the superhero "Smokeman", then, when that bubble burst within the year, became a member of the C.I.D. When "Grant (C.I.D.)" came to an end, Ortiz continued to work for Eagle on the aerial pirates yarn, "Sky Buccaneers".

Ortiz also found work in the pages of Lion where he drew "Trelawny's Mob", "The Phantom Viking" and "The 10,000 Disasters of Dort" over the next couple of years. However, he found himself in something of a backwater after that, drawing one-off romantic stories for Valentine and Romeo and illustrations and fairy tales for Once Upon a Time. He briefly resurged in the pages of TV Action drawing "The Persuaders" and was drawing for D. C. Thomson's Diana nad Warlord when the opportunity came to work for James Warren's magazines in the USA.

Ortiz's agent, Josep Toutain of Selecciones Illustrades, created  for publication in Spain and in the US in the early 1970s and - like many of his contemporaries - Ortiz saw the American market as a way of escaping the strictures of the British comics' market and earn a better return for his efforts. With James Warren's horror comics Vampirella, Eerie and others, he found the market he was looking for and, as David Roach records in The Warren Companion, "At Warren he embraced the 'new look' with relish to produce a succession of superbly-drawn stories such as "Coffin", "Jackass", and his masterpiece, "The Apocalypse" (which ran in Eerie #62-65). This looked like it wasn't so much inked as feverishly scratched out of a morass of black ink and seething textures." He was named Warren's Best All Around Artist in 1974.


Although Ortiz could not maintain this intensity, he became Warren's most prolific artist, contributing 119 strips to the Warren magazines, abandoning the UK market but maintaining a presence in Spain and Europe with strips such as "El Cuervo" for Kung-Fu (1976), "Los Grandes Mitos del Oeste" [Great Myths of the West] (1978) and El Nuevo Tarzan (1979-81).

As the Warren magazines lost circulation, Ortiz found a new market in Spain where new comics aimed at an older audience such as Cimoc, for which Ortiz teamed up with Antonio Segura on the western series "Hombre" in 1981. In 1983 he teamed up with his nephew Leopoldo Sanchez who, with writer Mariano Hispano,was co-founder of Ediciones Metropol; Ortiz contributed a number of strips to their three titles, Metropol, Mocambo and KO Comics, including "Hombre" in the latter. Although Ediciones Metropol lasted only a year, Ortiz was able to concentrate on contributing strips to the new adult comics published by Toutain Editor, such as "Las mil caras de Jack el Destripador" [Jack the Ripper] (1984) for Creepy, and Norma Editorial. In 1987 he created, with Segura, "Burton y Cyb" for Zona 84 (and, later, Comix Internacional) and "Morgan", which debuted as "Ives" in Metropol before being revived in Cimoc.

During the same period, Ortiz was a regular presence in Eagle in Britain, producing the sole comic strip for the newly relaunched boys' photo-weekly. The paper soon became a more regular comic, for which Ortiz continued to contribute "The Amstor Computer", "News Team" and the long-running "The Thirteenth Floor", which debuted in Scream! in 1984 and continued in Eagle & Scream! until 1987.

Ortiz also contributed to 2000AD, mostly illustrating "Rogue Trooper", but also single episodes of "The Helltrekkers" and "Judge Dredd" (1987). His last strips in the UK were "Kid Cops" for Eagle (1988) nad "Kitten Magee" in WildCat and the merged Eagle & WildCat (1988-89). Contemporarily, he also briefly worked on Sabre for Eclipse and a number of stories appeared in Heavy Metal.

In the early 1990s Ortiz drew "Bud O'Brien" (for Torpedo) and "Ozone" (for L'Eternauta), and contributed two volumes to a lavish collection of books from Planeta-Deagostini with the overall title Tales of the New World: #2 La civilización Inca: Los Hijos del Sol (1991) and #25 Orígenes del hombre Americano: Los Primeros (1992).

For the majority of the 1990s and 2000, Ortiz has worked for Sergio Bonelli on the famous Italian western Tex. He has also drawn episodes of "Ken Parker" and "Magico Vento" for their respective titles.

In 1998, Ortiz was awarded the Parparajote de Oro by the Asociación de Amigos del Tebeo de la Región de Murcia.

Examples of Jose Ortiz's artwork can be found for sale at the Illustration Art Gallery.

Brian O'Hanlon

Little is known about Brian O'Hanlon. He was a painter and illustrator whose career seems to have extended over at least 55 years. A search of auction records reveals a number of oil paintings and watercolours have been sold over the past 15 or so years the earliest being a watercolour of Crookston Castle, built in the Pollok district of Glasgow in around 1400AD. This was dated 1931.

The most recent dated work is from 1988. This later work, in oil, is primarily of rural scenes — fields of poppys, river estuaries, the Fenlands. One painting is described as looking through the window of a fisherman's cottage out onto a beach, possibly Aldeburgh. Aldeburgh is a Suffolk coastal town about half-way between Lowestoft in the north and Felixstowe in the south.

Armed with this connection to Suffolk, it is possible that O'Hanlon is (or was) Brian Francis O'Hanlon, whose death, at the age of 77, was registered in Bury St Edmunds in 1991. Brian Francis O'Hanlon was born 23 June 1914. The only other official trace would appear to be a marriage (in Croydon, Surrey) in 1944 to Margaret Watson. I believe he was born in Scotland, which would make sense if the teenage O'Hanlon was painting Scottish scenary in the 1930s. This should be considered speculation only.

In the late 1960s, O'Hanlon would appear to have been producing romantic illustrations in colour for women's magazines and at least one cover for June and School Friend (1968). How extensive O'Hanlon's contributions in these areas were is unknown.

Examples of Brian O'Hanlons artwork can be found for sale at the Illustration Art Gallery.

Richard Caton Woodville junior

Richard Caton Woodville Jr. was a widely recognised and prolific artist illustrations and paintings, notably for the Illustrated London News. He is particularly remembered for his battle scenes and many of his paintings are in military art collections, such as the National Army Museum, the Royal Naval College, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the London Scottish Regiments Museum Trust and West Point, as well as national collections such as the Tate Gallery.

He was the son of Richard Caton Woodville (1825-1855) an American artist, the son of a stockbroker, who originally studied medicine but who turned to painting as a career. In 1845, at the age of 20, Woodville left Baltimore to train at the Kunstacademie in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he lived for the next six years with his wife, Mary Theresa (nee Buckler), whom he had married on 3 January 1844.

Woodville senior had two children with Mary Theresa, Henry and Bessie, both born in Germany. By 1850, his wife and children had returned to Baltimore and were living with Mary's parents. Richard, meanwhile, left Düsseldorf in 1851 and lived in Paris before moving to London. There, he had a daughter, Alice Elizabeth Mary Woodville, who was baptized on 16 April 1853 at St Pancras. The mother was listed as Antoinette Woodville, although Richard and Antoinette Marie Schnitzler, the daughter of Anton Schnitzter (an architect), were only subsequently married, at the parish church in St. George, Bloomsbury, on 28 February 1854.

Woodville died of an overdose of morphine on 13 August 1855, aged only 30, and was buried at St James's, St Pancras, on 16 August 1855. At the time, Antoinette was pregnant with their second child and Richard Caton Woodville Jr was born in Stanhope Gardens, Gloucester Road, London, on 7 January 1856 and baptized on 24 March 1856 at St Pancras.

Antoinette, who also had some standing as a portrait painter, took her family first to St. Petersburg and later settled in Düsseldorf where her son studied painting under the Prussian military artist Wilhelm Camphausen, then under religious painter Eduard von Gebhardt before briefly studying in Russia and then Paris under Jean-Léon Gérôme. He submitted his first black & white illustrations to the Illustrated London News at the age of 20 and was encouraged by Sir William Ingram to send more.

At 21, on 15 October 1877, Woodville married 22-year-old Annie Elizabeth Hill at Christ Church, Brondesbury. Shortly after, he was sent to report on the Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) and later, in December 1882, to the Anglo-Egyptian War where he produced sketches and took photographs of the trenches at Tel-e-Kebir. Woodville was himself a member of the Royal Berks Yeomanry Cavalry, having joined in 1879. He resigned after a few years and joined the Volunteer Royal Engineers and then the Royal North Devon Hussars with the rank of captain.

In 1879, his painting Before Leuthen, Dec. 3rd, 1757 was exhibited at the Royal Academy and, over the next few years he produced many popular paintings, amongst them Kandahar and Saving the Guns at Maiwand (both inspired by the Second Anglo-Afghan War), and many scenes from the Zulu War and First Boer War. His painting The Moonlight Charge at Kassassin,was exhibited at the Fine Art Society in 1883 and The Guards at Tel-e-Kebir was exhibited by Royal Command in 1884. The latter was painted for the Royal Family in 1882 and led to a number of further commissions, including the wedding of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg in 1885. He later also painted a portraits King Edward VII and King George V.

By 1881 Woodville was living at 22 Park Village, St Pancras, in a household with three servants. The Woodvilles had two children, Anthony Caton Woodville (b. 1878) and William Caton Woodville (1884-1962). Despite having two children, he was incredibly prolific, preferring to work at night and in the small hours of the morning while his wife read aloud to him.

Woodville made extensive trips abroad, including a trip in 1886 to Morocco and, in 1889, accompanied HRH Prince Albert to India, travelling via Marseilles and Paris. By then he had split up with his wife (who subsequently married Henry MacGregor Lowry, a retired army colonel, on 3 January 1895) and had a studio and flat in Tite Street, Chelsea, below that of James McNeill Whistler.

The split had occurred before 1891, as Richard Caton Woodville was then in Paris where he was married at the British consul to Helen Eleanor Waddington.

Woodville was commissioned by the Illustrated London News to paint a series depicting famous battle throughout history, including the charnge of the Light Brigade, the Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, the Battle of Blenheim, the Battle of Badajos and several of the Battle of Waterloo. In 1895 he produced some 200 drawings, 2 large paintings and 2 smaller paintings. He maintained a large collection of arms and uniforms at his studio.

By the time of the 1901 census — at which time Woodville was living at 107 Queens Gate, Kensington — there was no sign of his second wife, although he was listed as married; it would appear that the couple divorced later that year in Nebraska. His earnings appeared to be still substantial and he employed a secretary, Madeleine Austin, and a married couple, James and Helen Harbour, who were his butler and cook. He was, however, untidy in his financial affairs: in 1891, Woodville owed rent on his studio in Tite Street and had his possessions seized and sold cheaply at auction; later, in October 1904, he filed for bankruptcy and was declaired bankrupt on 7 January 1905, with liabilities of £14,000 and almost no assets, claiming that his effects at his studio had been sold under a bill of sale executed about two years earlier. He was released from bankruptcy on 28 May 1906.

By 1911, and now living at Flat C, 2 Carlisle Place, Victoria Street, Westminster, Woodville the census return was claiming that Woodville and Madelaine (sic) Woodville had been married for twelve years (i.e. married around 1899), although this seems unlikely. Madeleine Adelaide Austin was the daughter of Irish-born John (by 1881 a Chelsea Pensioner) and Mary Austin (nee Coleman, born in Bangalore, India).

In 1913 he was involved in a controversial pageant, to be staged on Boxing Day at Earl's Court, entitled The Romance of India which was the subject of much complaint from Indian residents who claimed that a scene depicting ritual murder would create ill-feeling among his Majesty's loyal subjects in India. The scene had been pictured by Woodville in an issue if the Illustrated London News before the show was submitted to the Lord Chamberlain's department for licensing. The Lord Chamberlain subsequently approached the India Office and the Secretary of State also became involved. Woodville had a second scenario rejected, but the third was accepted; however, the delays led to the finances for the show being withdrawn and the show abandoned.

Woodville depicted numerous battles during the Great War, including three that were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1927: The 2nd Batt. Manchester Regiment taking six guns at dawn near St. Quentin, Entry of the 5th Lancers into Mons and Halloween, 1914: Stand of the London Scottish on Messines Ridge.

Madeleine (Madge) Woodville died on 26 December 1926, aged 50.

Woodville lived at Flat B, Dudley Mansions, 29 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, Middlesex, where he committed suicide on 17 August 1927: at shortly after 1 pm, Woodville's housekeeper and a friend, Mr. P. Gair, heard a report from a revolver and found Woodville sitting in his favourite chair in the studio attached to his house with a bullet wound to his head. He was still breathing, but died on the way to the hospital. Although he had been laughing and joking only that morning, Woodville had recently been suffering from heart trouble and pain from his leg, which he had broken years earlier and which had been aggravated by a second accident in Egypt.

An obituary in The Times described him as:

a cheerful, kindly man, who had more right to be considered a true Bohemian of the old school than many to whom that tern has been applied. When he produced his "Random Recollections" the public were given a series of merry or thrilling stories of dancing, duelling, sport, fighting, murders, sudden death, and hair-breadth escapes, his pictures being kept in the background.

After such an active life, Woodville was worried that, at 71, he would become an invalid. A letter read out at an inquest on 20 August 1927 revealed his final thoughts: "I am mentally and bodily ill. My health is a thing of the past." The Coroner recorded a verdict that Woodville was of unsound mind when he shot himself.

His effects — which amounted to only £10 — were left to his son, actor Anthony Canton Woodville. His son W. P. Caton Woodville was also a painter.

Examples of Richard Caton Woodville's artwork can be found for sale at the Illustration Art Gallery.

Arthur Oxenham

Arthur Oxenham was a prolific artist and illustrator who was particularly associated with the Read About It series of children's educational books published by Wheaton in the 1960s. Although relatively short (usually 24 pages), Oxenham 72 volumes in association with series authors Olive Gregory and Eileen Everett in five years; the series eventually lasted some 120 books (the later ones with other artists) and many of the early titles were subsequently reissued in the 1970s with different artwork. There was also a Welsh language series (published in 1967) which reprinted nine of the early titles.

Although the series included a wide range of geographical and historical subjects, Oxenham was primarily a wildlife illustrator, contributing many animal-related covers and dozens of colour illustrations to the 'Peeps at Nature' series which featured animals from around the world.

Examples of Arthur Oxenham's original artwork can be found at the Illustration Art Gallery.

Illustrations
Monkey Escapade by John Meiron Thomas. London, Longmans (Heritage Story Books 25), 1960.
Fables from the Middle East by Jirzis Saleh Qusus & N. M. A. Bukhari. London, Longmans, 1961.
Stories for Boys. London, Golden Pleasure Books, 1961.
Read About It series:
__1: Bread by O. B. Gregory. Essex, Wheaton, 1963.
__2: Milk by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963
__3: Tea by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__4: Sugar by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__5: Cotton by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__6: Rubber by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__7: Sheep Farmers by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__8: Fishermen by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__9: Coal Miners by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__10: Cowboys by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__11: Lumberjacks by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__12: Postmen by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1963.
__13: Glass by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__14: Oil by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__15: Butter by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__16: Cocoa and Chocolate by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__17: Salt by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__18: Soap by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__19: Airline Pilots by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__20: Bus Drivers by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__21: Firemen by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__22: Policemen by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__23: Ship Builders by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__24: Train Drivers by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1964.
__25: Food by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__26: Tools and Weapons by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__27: Clothes by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__28: Homes by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__29: Ships by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__30: Roads by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__31: William the Conqueror by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__32: Robert Bruce by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__33: Joan of ark by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__34: Christopher Columbus by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__35: Francis Drake by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__36: Guy Fawkes by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__37: Castles by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__38: Books and Writing by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__39: Canals by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__40: Railways by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__41 Motor Cars by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__42 Aeroplanes by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__43: Robert Clive by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__44: James Wolfe by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__45: James Cook by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__46: Horation Nelson by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__47: Florence Nightingale by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__48: David Livingstone by O. B. Gregory. Exeter, Wheaton, 1965.
__49: Badgers by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__50: Foxes by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__51: Hares by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__52: Deer by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__53: Dormice by Eileen Everett. Exeter Wheaton, 1967.
__54: Wasps by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__55: Hedgehogs by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__56: Squirrels by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__57: Toads by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__58: Bats by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__59: Bats by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__60: Butterflies by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__61: Otters by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__62: Rabbits by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__63: Harvest Mice by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__64: Moles by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__65: Spiders by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__66: Frogs by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__67: Newts by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__68: Bees by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__69: Lizards by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__70: Stoats by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__71: Ants by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__72: Ladybirds by Eileen Everett. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
The Haunted Airfield by Charles King. London, Golden Pleasure Books, 1965.
Horsey & Co. and the Bank Robbers by Richard Bowood. London, Golden Pleasure Books, 1965.
British Battles series:
__Bannockburn by Michael Raine. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__Bosworth by Michael Raine. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__Cullodden by Michael Raine. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__Flodden by Michael Raine. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
__Hastings by Michael Raine. Exeter, Wheaton, 1967.
Fossil Man by Michael Day. Feltham, Hamlyn, 1969.
Pets by Valerie Brayden. London, Lutterworth Press (Magpie Pocket Book), 1969.
Birds of the Countryside by Arthur Oxenham, text by John Taunton. London, Lutterworth Press (Magpie Pocket Book), 1970; revised, Guildford, Lutterworth Press, 1976.
Animals of Australia and New Zealand by Richard Sadleir. London, Hamlyn, 1970.
Prehistoric Man by Anthony Harvey. Feltham, Hamlyn, 1972.