The Seekers is a British comic strip drawn by John M. Burns, written by Les Lilley, succeeded by Phillip Douglas and Dick O'Neil. The strip ran from 1966 to 1971 in The Daily Sketch.
Synopsis The main characters, Susanne Dove and Jacob Benedick, are two preferred secret agents employed by Una Frost, director of "The Seekers", an elite agency of missing persons retrieval. Their investigations frequently lead to adventures connected to the sex industry, exploiting the attractiveness of both detectives, and usually leading to the downfall of sexual predators and oppressors.
Publication history The Seekers began publication on 2 May 1966 in The Daily Sketch. The concept of the strip bears some resemblance to another strip Burns later drew for a brief period, Modesty Blaise. The female characters were consistently drawn in an enticing manner, indicating Burns' evident intent to challenge the limits of the daily British newspaper strip conventions of the times. The initial writer Les Lilley was succeeded by Phillip Douglas starting with episode 14, The Missing Golfers, occasionally aided by Dick O'Neil, who wrote one story, The Curse of the One-Eyed Sailor.
The strip ended on 10 May 1971, abandoned due to its lack of lasting success. It enjoyed some popularity in Italy where it was known as I Segugi, and the Scandinavian countries, serialised as in Sweden, in Norway and Denmark, and in Finland, and as it was serialized in Yugoslavia in at least three different magazines during the 1970s and 1980s. The name, Seekers, translates to Bloodhounds in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish publications of the strip.
Story list
№ Title Author Strips 1 The Boneyard Club Les Lilley M103–M180 2 The Missing Groom M181–M252 3 Red Elibank M253–N12 4 The Bookman Vanishes N13–N84 5 The Collection N85–N155 6 The Irish Caper N156–N233 7 Jamaican Joyride N234–N309, P1-P2 8 John Silver P3–P83 9 The Highest Bidder P84–P16910 The Missing Star P170–P25411 Lost Monastery P255–P278, Q1-Q6012 The Off-Beat Case Q61–Q12013 Art Theft Q121–Q19814 The Missing Golfers Phillip<br/ >Douglas Q199–Q27615 A Matter of Life and Death Q277–Q309, R1-R4516 Where’s Una? R46–R11717 The Man Who Died Twice R118–R17818 The Boy With the Golden Boots R179–R23919 Hoop of Fire R240–R305, T1-T820 The Day the Birds Dropped Dead T9–T6821 The Curse of the One-Eyed Sailor Dick O'Neil T69–T10722 Title missing Phillip<br/ >Douglas T109–T12523 Wheels of Fate T126–T18524 The Tracy Madison Affair T186–T24525 Goddess of the Seven Moons T246–T31726 Legs on Broadway T318–T36527 Dead Girls Tell T366–T413
Sources
The Seekers - Spårhundarna John M. Burns bio FFF
Footnotes
External links The Seekers archives on Thrilling Adventures!