The Triumph was first published in Oct 1924 by the AP as a replacement to the Rocket which had recently folded after 87 issues. It was always primarily a War and action weekly story paper, and as the years passed plenty of sport and adventure tales filled its pages. During the 1920's and early 1930's it maintained a high standard with regular and popular AP authors such as L. E. Ransome and John Bobin among many others. When the Gem was amalgamated with it in Jan 1940 the heavily shortened St. Jim's school tales of "Martin Clifford" were transferred over, which could have been an unsatisfying mix for both sets of readers. So maybe it was for the best when the Triumph itself folded after 814 issues in May 1940 and was amalgamated into the Champion, which in turn carried on until Mar 1955. Bill Lofts managed to trace the origin of some of the stories and found that they had previously appeared in the Gem and were a mixture of genuine Hamilton and sub stories.

Introduction kindly supplied by Gary.

Issues indicated are complete scans, issues indicated by a hyperlink contain the Hamilton story only.