Editing The Saint (Simon Templar) (section)

==In comics==
{{Infobox Comic strip
| title= The Saint
| image= [[File:Lubberssaint10459.jpg|230px]]
| caption= [[Bob Lubbers]]' ''The Saint'' (4 October 1959)
| creator= [[Leslie Charteris]]
| current =
| illustrator = {{Plain list|
* [[Mike Roy (comics)|Mike Roy]] (1948–1951)
* John Spranger (1951–1959)
* [[Bob Lubbers]] (1959–1960)
* [[Doug Wildey]] (1960–1961)
}}
| status= Concluded Daily & Sunday
| syndicate= [[New York Herald Tribune Syndicate]]
| publisher= [[Avon Comics]]
| genre= Adventure
| first= 27 September 1948
| last= 16 September 1961
}}{{DISPLAYTITLE:The Saint (Simon Templar)|noerror}}<!-- Placed here to override the second infobox in the article. -->

The Saint appeared in a long-running series starting as a [[daily comic strip]] 27 September 1948 with a Sunday added on 20 March the following year. The early strips were written by Leslie Charteris, who had previous experience writing comic strips, having replaced [[Dashiell Hammett]] as the writer of the ''[[Secret Agent X-9]]'' strip. The original artist was [[Mike Roy (comics)|Mike Roy]]. In 1951, when John Spranger replaced Roy as the artist, he altered the Saint's appearance by depicting him with a beard. [[Bob Lubbers]] illustrated ''The Saint'' in 1959 and 1960. The final two years of the strip were drawn by [[Doug Wildey]] before it came to an end on 16 September 1961.

Concurrent with the comic strip, [[Avon Comics]] published 12 issues of a ''The Saint'' comic book between 1947 and 1952 (some of these stories were reprinted in the 1980s). Some issues included uncredited short text stories; one of these, "Danger No. 5", also appeared as filler in issue 2 of the 1952 war comic ''Captain Steve Savage''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/CaptainSteveSavage1st02_323|title=Captain Steve Savage (1st) 02|last=Avon Comics|date=n.d.|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

The 1960s TV series is unusual in that it is one of the few major programs of its genre that was not adapted as a comic book in the United States. It was, however, adapted as a comic strip in the British weekly comic ''[[TV Century 21|TV Tornado (later merging with TV21)]]'', where it ran from 1967 to 1970, drawn by [[Vicente Alcazar]]. The strip was titled ''Meet the Saint'' in later issues.

In Sweden, a long-running Saint comic book was published from 1966 to 1985 under the title ''Helgonet''.<ref>[[:sv:Helgonet (serietidning)]]</ref>{{Better source needed|date=December 2018|reason=[[WP:CIRCULAR]]}} It originally reprinted the newspaper strip, but already in 1969 original stories were commissioned for ''Helgonet''. These stories were also later reprinted in other European countries. About 170 stories were produced from 1969 to 1991 (after 1985, the stories were published in the Swedish ''James Bond'' comic book). Two of the main writers were [[Norman Worker]] and Donne Avenell; the latter also co-wrote the novels ''[[The Saint and the Templar Treasure]]'' and the novella collection ''[[Count on the Saint]]'', while Worker contributed to the novella collection ''[[Catch the Saint]]''.

A new American comic book series was launched by [[Moonstone Books|Moonstone]] in the summer of 2012, but it never went beyond a single promotional issue "zero".<ref>[http://www.comics.org/series/69051/ Grand Comics Database entry]. Retrieved 6 March 2015</ref>

[[File:SaintMagazine.jpg|right|thumb|200px|One of the final issues of ''The Saint Magazine'' from 1967 featured reprints of the Saint stories "The Export Trade" and "The Five Thousand Pound Kiss", as well as a novella by [[Michael Avallone]], here erroneously credited as the creator of ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'']]