The Silent Three

The Silent Three (originally The Silent Three of St. Kit's) was a British comic strip published in the girls' comics magazine School Friend[1] from 1950 to 1963,[2] written by Horace Boyten and Stewart Pride, and originally illustrated by Evelyn Flinders.[3] Three schoolgirls at St. Kit's boarding school, Betty Roland (mask #1), Joan Derwent (mask #2) and Peggy West (mask #3), banded together as a secret society against the tyranny of the head prefect, later also fighting crime wearing numbered masks and hooded green robes.[4] In 1977 Posy Simmonds drew a weekly strip for The Guardian entitled The Silent Three of St Botolph's in tribute.

"The Silent Three" from School Friend, c. 1950

References
  1. Paul Gravett, Comics Britannia episode 2: Boys and Girls, BBC
  2. The Silent Three at International Hero
  3. Cloud Chamber 106, June 2000
  4. Only the Silent Three Could Help Her, Delusional Schoolgirl, 11 June 2011
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