Mike Hubbard

Mike Hubbard was born in Dublin, Ireland, but moved to London after the First World War. His career began providing internal and cover illustrations for Amalgamated Press’ story papers, before moving to comics work after the Second World War. Most famously he assisted Norman Pett on the Daily Mirror erotic strip Jane before becoming the lead artist in 1948 until the strip’s end in 1959. He also drew adventure comics for Knockout and made significant contributions to Fleetway’s girls titles, drawing Jane Bond: Secret Agent for Tina and Princess Tina, as well as providing strips for Valentine, Princess and Schoolgirls’ Picture Library. He died in 1976.