The Silent Three (originally The Silent Three of St. Kit's) was a British comic strip published in the girls' comics magazine School FriendPaul Gravett, Comics Britannia episode 2: Boys and Girls, BBC from 1950 to 1963,The Silent Three at International Hero written by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, and originally illustrated by Evelyn Flinders.Cloud Chamber 106, June 2000 Three schoolgirls at St. Kit's boarding school, Betty Roland (mask #1), Joan Derwent (mask #2) and Peggy West (mask #3), banded together as a secret society against the tyranny of the head prefect, later also fighting crime wearing numbered masks and hooded green robes.Only the Silent Three Could Help Her, Delusional Schoolgirl, 11 June 2011 In 1977 Posy Simmonds drew a weekly strip for The Guardian entitled The Silent Three of St Botolph's in tribute.
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