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In the backstory, Garth washed ashore in Shetland and was adopted by an elderly couple. Garth'stime-travelling adventures lasted for over 50 years and covered 165 stories (plus two additional stories published in the Daily Mirror Book for Boys, 1970–71). Martin Asbury became Garth's artist after Frank Bellamy's death in 1976, drawing the strip and writing many of the stories until its final episode in 1997. Philip Harbottle, a leading Garth expert and collector of the strips, wrote several of the stories during the 1990s. Peter O'Donnell, Jim Edgar, and Angus Allan also wrote extensively for the strip during its decades-long existence. Garth's longevity had been established by Don Freeman, who created almost every basic Garth plot on which the saga was built. After 59 adventures, Dowling retired and handed Garth over to Allard, which he carried on until 1971, when Eagle comics' Dan Dare artist, Frank Bellamy, took over the art with Allard writing the scripts.

Dowling and Boshell took on 15-year-old John Allard to work on Garth, who stayed with the strip for its entire lifetime. Dowling wanted to create a British adventure comic strip and took inspiration from the American comic strips Superman, Flash Gordon and Terry and the Pirates.

Steve Dowling and Gordon Boshell were the originators of the Garth character.