while huntin the net for info on who wrote or drew BLACK MAX i found this link, to a page detailing the first issue ever on LION comic (23 feb 1952), some 20 years before i was a reader — it lists the contents, as follows:
Outlaw Of Space (with Captain Condor)
Sandy Dean’s First Term
Lone Commandos
Brett Barlowe, Detective
Jungle Robot
Rod of the Trading Post
Big Hank, The Soft-Hearted Heavyweight
Jingo Jones And His Invisibiliser
The Lion Birthday Club Page
World-wide Quiz
Sports that roused the Romans
What happens when you dial 999
Inventors are the boys for brainwaves