Later stories told of Biggles' adventures after the War, as a charter pilot of an unidentified amphibian often illustrated on covers, anachronistically, as either a Supermarine Walrus or Supermarine Otter , his return to service in World War II initially with a Supermarine S6B type machine in the Baltic and further adventures in peace time; others filled in his equally adventurous childhood in India and the story of how he came to join the RFC, flying with New Zealand observer Mark Way in an FE2 before he converted to scouts.
Biggles' first post-war action saw him in the African desert with new twin-engined types possibly Bristol Brigand and de Havilland Hornet. Biggles has a small team of friends including Algy Hon. Biggles' greatest opponent is the German spy officer Erich von Stalhein. They first meet when Biggles acts as a spy in the Middle East, where Biggles has some narrow escapes. Von Stalhein returns as an adversary in numerous other adventures.
After this he and Biggles are chums. Though Biggles and his friends age in the books, they do so more slowly than appears historically credible. The books somewhat obviously chronicle developments in aviation technology and also social changes. In an early book, the evidence points to an English nobleman as the perpetrator, but Biggles can dismiss this out of hand as the gentry would never commit a crime; in a later novel, one of the gentry is the villain.
While various natives are sometimes unreliable, the Biggles books do not really display racist views - although Johns certainly promoted the superiority of British culture, as distinct from race. Johns' contemporary terms for people of different colour have resulted in censorship in some places, which does rather rewrite history. In the Biggles stories, there are few females; either as characters or referred to. Biggles and his chums remain steadfastly single.
Another female character appears in the form of Worrals, eponymous heroine of a related series of books featuring this resourceful and "plucky" member of the WAAF.
A further Johns creation, the commando Captain Lorrington King, nicknamed "Gimlet" also features in a series of books that intersect with Biggles at times. Contemporary viewpoints of Biggles books have been satirised for their archaic use of language, notably terms such as "opined" and "ejaculated" and the use of what are now seen as offensive racial stereotypes and characterisations Germans are often referred to as the Hun, for example.
This led to the books being removed from most British libraries, a move which was held up derisively as an example of political correctness since the books are quite without malice and very much of their time. Written for children, they contain no swearing and no sex but alcohol is mentioned occasionally and cigarettes are much in evidence.
In general the books set in the First World War are good examples of their time and genre and are likely to be acceptable to a modern audience; they are also more edgy, Biggles setting out on at least one occasion with "red mist", on a death-or-glory mission occasioned by the death of a comrade.
The inter-war books are reasonably typical of boys' adventure literature of the time, and similar plots and characterisations could be found in comics and books of other genres. Perhaps the name "Biggles" is too British to attract an American audience, who don't have the nostalgic fondness for the character that we who read the books in our youth have?
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