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Gallery
The gallery page is intended to show a selection of illustrations by various artists, depicting the different interpretations of Ginger throughout the series. I am indebted to many friends for their help in scanning in drawings from the books they own to add to my own collection.
The pictures below were kindly sent by Ed van Driel. They depict Ginger in The Black Peril.
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To see more pictures from The Black Peril, please click here
After The Black Peril, Ginger learned to fly at Brooklands. He had just got his ticket when his celebration meal was interrupted by an SOS which involved him and his comrades in a most fantastic adventure. To see pictures from Biggles Hits The Trail, please click here.
Ginger proves his worth when Biggles forms an Air Transport Company. For pictures from Biggles & Co please click here.
The following pictures are from the Dutch version of Biggles, Air Commodore and Biggles in the South Seas, courtesy of the same source.
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To view more pictures from Biggles In The South Seas, please click here.
To view more pictures from Biggles, Air Commodore, please click here. After his war experience in Air Commodore, Ginger became a proper fighter pilot in Biggles Goes To War. To view some pictures from the Modern Boy, please click here.
To see some more pictures of Ginger showing his knees please click here. There are more pictures of Ginger in shorts when he went to Mexico and more pictures from Africa in Biggles and the Black Raider here. To view Ginger grappling with his "pet aversion", please click here.
The following pictures, courtesy of Guy Jamais, are from Biggles Flies North:
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To view more pictures from Biggles Flies North, including some from a German version, please click here.
To view pictures from a Swiss German version of Biggles In Africa, as well as some Modern Boy illustrations, please click here.
Before the war, Ginger was involved in some fantastic adventures with Doctor Duck, familiarly known as Donald. To view some early pictures from the Boys Own Paper, please click here.
When war broke out, Ginger accompanied Biggles on his missions. To see pictures from the Norwegian campaign, please click here.
When he joined the Air Police, Ginger travelled all over the world, including to Jamaica in Biggles In The Blue, to Asia in Biggles In The Gobi and to Arabia for Another Job.
He was also involved in hunting for treasure and you can see the Look and Learn version of Biggles and the Lost Sovereigns here.Ginger's appearance varied considerably according to the different illustrators of the comic versions as can be seen from this selection kindly supplied by Guy Jamais:
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To view more comic strip representations, please click here. To view some less than flattering depictions, please click here.
Below are two illustrations from the Dutch edition of Biggles Fails To Return, thanks to Ed van Driel, which appear to be identical to those in the British Omnibus edition. They are by Stead who has become synonymous with Biggles illustrations.
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The illustrations both depict Ginger in his Mon駡sque disguise; the one on the left shows him setting off with Lucille, the donkey, and the one on the right shows the disastrous consequences of trying to take the bends on the road to La Grave de Peille too quickly. To view more pictures from versions of Fails To Return, please click here.
?Below is a depiction of Ginger in the Arthaud version of Biggles Secret Agent, sent to me by Dirk Edel:
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?To see more from the French language version of Secret Agent, please click here.
Ginger frequently appears on the cover of Biggles books. To see some of the representations not depicted on other pages, including a rare Modern Boy cover, please click here. To view some unsympathetic covers, please click here.
To view pictures from Biggles' Antarctic adventures, published as Biggles Breaks The Silence, please click here.
To view pictures from Biggles At World's End, please click here.
To view pictures from Biggles In Spain, please click here.
To view pictures from Biggles, Foreign Legionnaire please click here.
There are some more charming illustrations from French language versions here.
To look at some illustrations by Stead from the first edition of Biggles Takes A Holiday, please click here.
Biggles did not just appear in written form. In the early sixties, Granada Television screened a series starring Neville Whiting, David Drummond and John Leyton. To view some pictures from the TV series, please click here.
