{"id":2043,"date":"2014-07-14T06:09:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-14T06:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2014-07-14T06:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T06:57:49","slug":"leslie-thomas-1931-to-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2014\/07\/14\/leslie-thomas-1931-to-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Thomas 1931 to 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Autograph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Autograph-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Autograph\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Autograph-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Autograph-1024x665.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Autograph.jpg 1719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Following an email from Jem I was reminded that we had not only lost Sam Peffer this year but another\u00a0\u00a0PAN stalwarts , Leslie Thomas, winner of a Golden PAN Award for selling over a million copies of &#8216;The Virgin Soldiers&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Montage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Montage-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Montage\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Montage-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Montage.jpg 531w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Back in May \u00a0I started to put together a page of covers and had not realised how many variations there are on his dozen or so titles published by PAN. So while I track them down I&#8217;ve adding a slide show of the 11 comic covers from the 80&#8217;s. 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