The Silent Three

The Silent Three
"The Silent Three" from School Friend circa 1950
"The Silent Three" from School Friend, c. 1950
Author(s)Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride
Illustrator(s)Evelyn Flinders
Current status/scheduleConcluded weekly strip
Launch date1950
End date1963
Publisher(s)School Friend
Genre(s)Drama

The Silent Three (originally The Silent Three of St. Kit's) was a British comic strip published in the girls' comics magazine School Friend[1] from 1950 to 1963,[2] written by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, and originally illustrated by Evelyn Flinders.[3] 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.[4] In 1977 Posy Simmonds drew a weekly strip for The Guardian entitled The Silent Three of St Botolph's in tribute.

References

  1. ^ Paul Gravett, Comics Britannia episode 2: Boys and Girls, BBC
  2. ^ The Silent Three at International Hero
  3. ^ Cloud Chamber 106, June 2000
  4. ^ Only the Silent Three Could Help Her, Delusional Schoolgirl, 11 June 2011
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