Some issues included uncredited short stories; an additional short story, "Danger No. 5", appeared as filler in issue 2 of the 1952 war comic "Captain Steve Savage". 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. In Sweden, a long-running Saint comic book was published from 1966 to 1985 under the title "Helgonet". It originally reprinted the newspaper strip, but soon original stories were commissioned for "Helgonet". These stories were also later reprinted in other European countries. 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 in the summer of 2012, but it never went beyond a single promotional issue "zero". The original Saint novellas first appeared in "The Thriller" (1929–1940), edited by Monty Hayden, a friend of the author, who was sometimes given a thinly disguised role in the early stories. Charteris also edited or oversaw several magazines that tied in with the Saint. The first of these were anthologies titled "The Saint's Choice" that ran for seven issues in 1945–46. A few years later Charteris launched "The Saint Detective Magazine" (later titled "The Saint Mystery Magazine" and "The Saint Magazine"), which ran for 141 issues between 1953 and 1967, with a separate British edition that ran just as long but published different material. In most issues "Saint's Choice" and the later magazines Charteris included at least one Saint story, usually previously published in one of his books but occasionally original. In several mid-1960s issues, however, he substituted "Instead of the Saint", a series of essays on topics of interest to him. The rest of the material in the magazines consisted of novellas and short stories by other mystery writers of the day. An Australian edition was also published for a few years in the 1950s. In 1984 Charteris attempted to revive the "Saint" magazine, but it ran for only three issues. Leslie Charteris himself portrayed The Saint in a photo play in "Life magazine": "The Saint Goes West". Most Saint books were collections of novellas or short stories, some of which were published individually either in magazines or in smaller paperback form.