Christmas Comic Covers
As everybody else is doing it, here are some assorted covers of christmas issues from my collection. Most of the suff i had to hand is in bound volumes, so these are photos. Though i suppose i could...
View ArticleAnother weird ‘un…
My ebay wanderings turned up another oddity a while ago. The Boys Adventure Annual 1984! Fantastic painting, the back cover is the same picture The cover promises the usual fare of the British boys’...
View ArticleLife imitates art… again!
I saw this story in the paper a week ago: runn01.jpg Which is refusing to post in clickable thumbnail mode For anybody who can’t be bothered to scroll around the image, it is an article about a runner...
View ArticleEagle and Tiger – one of the last throws of the dice
Ahh, Eagle and Tiger. What great names, standing astride British comics like a gold-plated colossus. Eagle gave us the greatest space strip of all time, Dan Dare… The Red Moon Mystery is unbelivably...
View ArticleRoy Race gets tough on hooligans
With the “recent” (well recent by the standards of how often I update this thing) riots in Britain I thought this might be timely, I was going through a big pile of comics I got the other week and...
View ArticleA comparison
…of Japan’s best weekly adventure comic and Britain’s best (only!) weekly adventure comic.* It’s no secret that I hold Japan up as an example of how the comic industries of all countries ought to...
View ArticleMarvel(ous) Miracle!
One of the most famous of Britain’s home-grown superheroes is Marvelman, who has a long and pretty complicated history. He came about when National Publications (later DC Comics) threatened to sue...
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