EXTRACTS: Don Lawrence Art (illustrators special) © 2018 The Book Palace (144 PAGES in Full edition)

Top: John the Baptist and Herod confronting John and telling him what his fate is to be. Above: Joseph and Mary escape Herod’s soldiers. Right: “Cruel Herod, crowned by permission of the Roman Senate.” Opposite bottom: Salome, Herod’s beautiful step-daughter. These illustrations were taken from Lawrence’s ‘Herod the Great’ strip and reused in The Children’s Bible Treasury (Purnell, 1979). Pages 36-41: Features from Bible Story issues 7, 9 and 10. Pages 42-55: ‘Herod the Great’ from issues 23-29 (8 August–18 September 1964). 35