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- ↑ Jeremy Briggs, "Calling Warlord Agents!" Archived 25 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Interview with Bill Graham, Downthetubes.com: "August 5th, 1963. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was put on the staff of The Hornet on the day the first issue went to press".
- ↑ Roger Sabin, Comics, Comix & Graphic Novels, London: Phaidon, 1996, repr. 2001, ISPN 0-7148-3993-0, p. 49: "DC Thomson hit back [after the launch of Eagle] . . . by launching new titles, the most famous of which were Victor (1961) and Hornet (1963)."
- 1 2 The Hornet at 26pigs.com.
- ↑ Mike Conroy, War Stories: A Graphic History, New York: Ilex/Harper, 2009, ISBN 978-0-06-173112-9, p. 116.
- ↑ Graham Kibble-White, The Ultimate Book of British Comics, London: Allison & Busby, 2005, ISBN 0-7490-8211-9, p. 218.
- ↑ Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury, Great British Comics: Celebrating a Century of Ripping Yarns and Wizard Wheezes, London: Aurum, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84513-170-8, p. 166.
