Darkie's Mob

Created by writer John Wagner and artist Mike Western, Darkie's Mob first saw print in Battle Picture Weekly in 1976. The story of a group of British soldiers stranded in the Jungles of Burma in 1943 who are apparently 'saved' by the Mysterious Captain Joe Darkie for reasons of his own, it was a brutal, at times shocking story which nonetheless captured the imaginations of thousands of readers. The story ended with all but two of the Mob, including Darkie himself, dead but it returned for a one-off text story in the 1990 Battle Holiday Special.