 It was on the latter that he developed his techniques for working in colour, creating over 300 pages of meticulously painted artwork during his four-year run on the strip (1956–60).His fascination with historical characters and settings served him well with later strips, 'Wrath of the Gods' ("Boys' World", 1963) and 'Johnny Frog' ("Eagle", 1964), although Embleton was equally at home with contemporary adventure strips ('Biggles', TV Express, 1960) and science fiction