Boys' mags
Sir: Mr A. A. Garner post-dates the florescence of The Boys' Maga- zine, which I was already reading hungrily in the early 1920s. The brightest stars in its pages were two partners in crime detection de scribed as 'Falcon Swift, the Monocled Manhunter, and his in- trepid boy-assistant, Chick Con- way'. Their chief enemy went by the brilliantly displeasing name of Migzomar, and I recall a cover illustration which depicted this villain hurling Mr Swift (din- ner-jacketed and upside-down but with his monocle still screwed im- maculately into his left eye) over the Niagara Falls. Even Holmes, .1 feel, could not have retained h!s deer-stalker, his pipe or indeed his cool, as he plunged in similar ctra cumstances towards the Reichen- bach rapids below.
Paul
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