Scott Goodall, who has died aged 80, was a prolific writer for comics and author of, among other things, “Captain Hurricane” scripts for Valiant and “Galaxus: The Thing From Outer Space” for Buster; in later life he revived the Chemin de la Liberté across the Pyrenees.

Marcus Scott Goodall was born in Aberdeen on November 7 1935. He started writing cowboy stories and selling them for a penny in the playground at Gordon’s College. After leaving school he joined an insurance company before being called up in 1954 for National Service in the Army which he served in Korea and Japan. Returning to Britain he became an insurance assessor in Lincoln, but hated the job and returned to Scotland where he joined DC Thomson, publishers of the Beano and Dandy, working on a romantic magazine for girls that was never published.

In the early 1960s he moved to London, where he became a features writer on Mirabelle, another “romantic” magazine; he was busily employed interviewing such up-and-coming stars as Cliff Richard, Adam Faith and Joe Brown. He then moved to IPC in Fleet Street, joining the boys’ adventure department, where, in the 1960s and 1970s, he became a comic writer, working with some of the best cartoonists of the period, many of whom were Spanish or South American.