(Main article: Denis Gifford) Denis Gifford was a prolific comic artist and writer, most active in the 1940s, 50s and 60s. Gifford's work was largely for humour strips in British comics, often for L. Miller & Son. He was a highly influential comics historian, particularly of British comics from the 19th century to the 1940s. Gifford was also a committed comic collector of British and US comics, and owned what has been called the "world's largest collection of British comics."