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The Silver Jacket
The Silver Jacket was published in Australia by New Century from 1953-1955. The publisher wanted to print Greyfriars stories but Richards was not allowed to use the characters as they were still under copyright from Amalgamated Press. Instead 27 Carcroft stories were published, ten of them being reprints from Hutchinson's Pie, the rest being original. 38 issues of the Silver Jacket were published but only the first 27 issues contained Frank Richards material.
Carcroft stories also appeared in Tom Merry's Own.
You can find full details of the contents in the publications section of The Greyfriars Index
You can also find information on 'Australia's Legendary 1950's Story Paper' at http://www.collectingbooksandmagazines.com/silver.html
Carcroft in the Silver Jacket
You can read or download download the full collection of Hamilton stories in the Silver Jacket by clicking here (warning - 45mb!!) or you can access them individually by selecting the links below. The covers have been photocopied in black and white but you can access a couple of Colour cover scans from issues 15 & 22 here.
| Title | Publisher | Date |
Notes |
| 01 Just like Turkey | New Century | October 1953 | reprint from Spring Pie, March 1946 |
| 02 Turkey on the Warpath | New Century | November 1953 |
reprint from Summer Pie, June 1945 |
| 03 Turkey for Christmas | New Century | December 1953 | reprint from Christmas Pie, December 1945 |
| 04 Turkey knows how | New Century | January 1954 | |
| 05 Turkey's Picnic | New Century | February 1954 | |
| 06 Turkey's 100 lines | New Century | March 1954 |
reprint of "Turkey's Impot", Christmas Pie, 1944 |
| 07 Done in the Dark! | New Century | April 1954 | reprint from Winter Pie, November 1948 |
| 08 The Carcroft Card | New Century | May 1954 | reprint from Spring Pie, March 1945 |
| 09 The Sportsman! | New Century | June 1954 |
reprint from Winter Pie, November 1946 |
| 10 The Lost Study! | New Century | July 1954 | reprint of "Lost Study", Autumn Pie, August 1946 |
| 11 Roger's Way | New Century | August 1954 |
reprint from Autumn Pie, September 1945 |
| 12 Turkey Tries it on! | New Century | September 1954 | |
| 13 Turkey's Vengeance | New Century | October 1954 | |
| 14 The Borrowed bike | New Century | November 1954 | |
| 15 Christmas Present for Roger! | New Century | December 1954 |
reprint from Christmas Pie, December 1946 |
| 16 Roger Sets it Right! | New Century | January 1955 | |
| 17 Turkey's Fireworks | New Century | February 1955 | |
| 18 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 1- Trouble for Turkey! | New Century | March 1955 | |
| 19 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 2- Think Again Roger! | New Century | April 1955 | |
| 20 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 3- Barring-out the Beaks! | New Century | May 1955 | |
| 21 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 4- Sticking it out! | New Century | June 1955 | |
| 22 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 5- Going strong! | New Century | July 1955 | |
| 23 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 6- No surrender! | New Century | August 1955 | |
| 24 The Barring Out at Carcroft part 7- Game to the last! | New Century | September 1955 | |
| 25 Turkey to the Rescue | New Century | October 1955 | |
| 26 Not Turkey! | New Century | November 1955 | |
| 27 Turkey on the Telephone | New Century | December 1955 |