Spike

Spike was a weekly anthology title published by DC Thomson from 22nd January 1983 to 28th April 1984, a total of 67 issues. It contained mostly sports and adventure stories, with strips featured including The Man in Black (actually starring longtime DCT star William Wilson, though his true identity was not immediately made apparent), Iron Barr, Midshipman Coward, The Bleak Street Bunch, Starhawk (continued from The Crunch), A Ghost in the Cockpit, Telford's Terrors, 5 Minute Mystery, Ticker Tait, The Town That Vanished, Winged Vengeance, Megax the Warrior, Stagg of the Secret Service, The Mantracker, Magnet, On the Run, Desert Fury, The Taming of Johnny Tough, Krazy Kops (which had previously appeared in Sparky as L Cars) and the title character, Spike himself. The title was eventually merged with Champ.