The Saint - Megaset (DVD, 2003, 14 Disc Boxed Set)

To those that only knew 'The Saint' as the 1960's TV Show, it actually goes back much further than that!

The Saint starting appearing in a long running comic strip series first as a daily strip on September 27th, 1948. It added the Sunday section on March 20th 1949.

The early comic strips were written by Leslie Charteris, who had previous experience writing comic strips. Leslie had earlier replaced Dashiell Hammett as the writer of the Secret Agent X-9 comic strip.

The original comic strip artist for The Saint was Mike Roy. Then in 1951 John Spranger replaced Roy as the artist and altered the Saint's appearance by depicting him with a beard!

The final two years of the comic strip were drawn
by Doug Wildey, (yes THAT Doug Wildey!). The comic strip ended its run on September 16, 1961.

During the days of the comic strip, Avon Comics published twelve issues of 'The Saint' comic book. The print run ran from 1947 to 1952.


The Saint's TV Show from the 1960's was unusual in that it was one of the few major programs of its genre that was NOT adapted as a comic book in the United States. So many other TV Shows had at least had a 'one-shot' comic tied to the show to capitalize on the popularity of the show!

This is a really great TV series and I am glad the color episodes were collected into a set! Not to be missed by Saint fans!!