UPDATED: Comics reference books of Ray Moore

My look at comic reference books has, to date, covered a number of authors such as...

Lofts & Adley is here

Alan Clark is here 

Dennis Gifford is here 

David Ashford is here

Martin Hamer is here

Colin Morgan is here

Steve Holland is here

Now it's the turn of Ray Moore...again there may be 'variant' editions out there of these books which I've excluded (for now) but I'd still be interested in seeing them. These exist because they've been (re)printed a few times over the years.

Update for this post - the 2nd volume of the Dandy index

The Dandy monster index 1937-1990 by Ray Moore

Here's a 'solo' volume 1 of the index

Here's the 'solo' volume 2 of the index (which only goes up to 1985, so that first image, above, since it goes up to 1990 means that it's a slightly updated version of the first two versions).

Topper tales by Ray Moore

The Beano diaries by Ray Moore

Info. on stories published up until the end of 1989. Saw a set on ebay that mentioned they were from an edition of 281 copies.

The Magic index by Ray Moore

The book of the Beezer by Ray Moore

Broons / Oor Wullie index by Ray Moore

image not to hand - can you help?

This was The Wizard by Derek Marsden and Ray Moore

The Dudley Watkins index of the Desperate Dan reprints 1969-83 by Ray Moore

The Buster index - Steve Holland & Ray Moore

Lawless 2023 - Steve Dillon, part 2

For Lawless 2023 I've looked at...

Artists here

Original art here

panels here

Steve Dillon art, part 1 here

And now here's a chance to see some more of the amazing Steve Dillon artwork that was on display...

UPDATED: Jurassic Park - Dark Horse International, 1993/4

Inspired by a recent post (here) by friend of the blog Michael Carroll I decided to create a covers gallery for the 1993/4 Dark Horse International Jurassic Park comic. I've found the first 8 issues, just another 8 to go! Images are mostly taken from ebay, but some are from the Grand Comics Database and some from Phil Boyce's excellent look at this comic - read all about it here.

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 1, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 2, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 3, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 4, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 5, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 6, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 7, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 8, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 9, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 10, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 11, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 12, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 13, 95p, cover by John Bolton

Jurassic Park, Manga publishing, 1993/4, issue 14, £1.25p

Jurassic Park, Manga publishing, 1993/4, issue 15, £1.25p

Jurassic Park, Manga publishing, 1993/4, issue 16, £1.25p

You can see all other Manga published titles here

Kapow - the art of making comics & film; original comic art, part 1

Currently on a the Rugby Art Museum & Gallery is Kapow - the art of making comics and film (more details here). If you've not yet been to this free exhibition here are just a few of the pages of original vintage British comics art that's on display...

Were you a Marvel Mastermind?

An interesting Marvel UK item up for auction next month here. The auction house describe it thus

MARVEL MASTERMIND LOT (3 in Lot) - An annual Marvel Mastermind competition was run in the pages of the Mighty World of Marvel comic in the 1970's. This Lot includes two unused 1975 runner-up certificates signed by STAN LEE & HERB TRIMPE together with the original script (with annotations from Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys who was production editor at the time) of the questions for the 1976 competition - Flat/Unfolded - PROVENANCE : The vendor worked as Art Director at MARVEL UK during the 1970's

It's part of a much large comics auction on 5th August - good luck if you bid!

is this the Nigel Kitching - comic artist - I wonder?