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Armada

The Armada books were published by Mayfair in the late Sixties and early Seventies. The first 10 issues were taken from the Magnet, Schoolboys' Own Library and Cassell books and the stories were fairly unabridged (Although the Schoolboys Own Library books were themselves abridged  stories taken from the Magnet).

The final four issues were reprinted from individual Magnets culled from the Egypt series and are disjointed, incomplete and best avoided.

You can find more detail on the Armada books in the publications section of  The Greyfriars Index.

Click on the links below to read or download the stories.

 

Book Title   Publisher Published Sourced from
Bunter and the Phantom of the Towers

    

Armada May 1965 Schoolboys Own Library
issue 319
(Magnets 1244-1246)
Bunter the Racketeer

    

Armada May 1965 Magnet issues
1479-80
Bunter the Tough Guy of Greyfriars

     

Armada May 1965 Schoolboys Own Library
Issues 385 and 388
Bunter’s Holiday Cruise

    

Armada May 1965 Schoolboys Own Library
Issues 367 and 370
Billy Bunter the Bold

       

Armada July 1968 Cassell 1954
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School

     

Armada August 1968 Skilton 1947
Billy Bunter's Postal Order

       

Armada August 1968 Skilton 1951
Billy Bunter's Benefit

       

Armada March 1969 Skilton 1950
Billy Bunter in Brazil
(Skilton Version)

       

Armada June 1970 Skilton 1949
Bunter the Ventriloquist 
(Cassell Version)

       

Armada June 1970 Cassell 1961
Billy Bunter’s Bad Luck

         

Armada February 1971 Magnet issue 1277
Billy Bunter on the Nile

       

Armada January 1972 Magnet Issue 1282
Bunter and the Secret of the Scarab

       

Armada September 1972 Magnet Issue 1284
Billy Bunter’s Bargain

       

Armada August 1971 Magnet Issue 1281