| Romeo Brown | |
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| Creative team | |
| Written by | Alfred Mazure, Peter O'Donnell |
| Artist(s) | Alfred Mazure, Jim Holdaway |
Romeo Brown was a British comic strip published in the Daily Mirror from 1954 to 1962.
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It was originally written and illustrated by Alfred Mazure; Mazure was replaced in 1957 by writer Peter O'Donnell and illustrator Jim Holdaway. It featured the adventures of Romeo Brown, a dashing private detective and reluctant ladies' man. The strip was cancelled unexpectedly by the chairman of the group who, according to O'Donnell, said he couldn't understand it. [1] O'Donnell had by this time completed the next adventure and Holdaway had illustrated the first 8 days' worth.
O'Donnell recalled in a 2002 interview: "This was a strip running in the tabloid Daily Mirror, for which I was writing "Garth". The editor was dissatisfied so he engaged Jim Holdaway to take over the drawing and asked me to write the scripts. That's how Jim and I first met, and we ran the strip for seven years, Romeo Brown was a comic private detective, and my brief was that every story was to revolve around a girl or girls, and the more clothes I could safely get off them the better." [2]
O'Donnell followed Romeo Brown with the comic strip Modesty Blaise in the Evening Standard , which Holdaway illustrated from its debut on 13 May 1963 until his death in 1970.
