UPDATED (again): Beano & Dandy calendars

Following on from a previous post (here) about Oor Wullie calendars I realised that there must be other DC Thomson calendars out there so I set off to google Beano calendars - so here's my guide to collecting them...

Don't forget you can review Commando calendars here and Judge Dredd calendars here

New material is highlighted in red but the summary of where I'm up to now is that I have images for calendars for 1986-2019 apart from 1996, 2001 and a 'skinny' 2005 calendar (assuming it exists). Of course there could be more out there so if I missed anything just let me know.

Interestingly the 1992 edition has a reference that says "Number 7" in the top right cover - indicating that this is the 7th edition of the calendar...

...hmmm, and the 1993 calendar says "Number 8"...

...hmmm, and the 1994 calendar says "Number 9"...

...thingk the 1995 one says 'number 10' in the top right corner

no sign of 1996 (yet!)

Here's the 1997 calendar - you'll see from the back cover picture that this is (helpfully) number as number 12 so there must have been a calendar for 1996 (to be number 11)

The 1998 calendar

The 1999 calendar (left) and the envelope it came in (right)

The 2000 calendar (right) and the envelope it came in (left)

Here's the 2002 calendar

2003 calendar

Then 2004...

No 2005 calendar (I think!) so here's the 2006 edition... 

Hmmm, so for 2004 and 2006 it seems there were 2 calendars for Beano fans...

Here's a great collection of calendars...

The top row shows (in order) 2015, 2016, 2012 and 2014.

The bottom row shows (in order) 2013, 2017, 2011 and 2010.

So that's 2010-2017 in total

The 2015 calendar...

The 2017 calendar...

...And then the 2018 calendar...

...and here we are for 2019...

Pop #37 - lost Ron Smith strip re-discovered

Over here (whilst looking, as ever for me, for all things to do with Powerman comic) I found an advert in the 'Comics 101' booklet / brochure for a comic called 'Pop'...

Up until very recently I had no idea what was in Pop - the good news is that I now have some idea as (thanks to friend of the blog Ron Tiner) I now have a copy of Pop (issue 37 to be precise).

So here it is, this companion to Powerman... 

It's a younger version of Powerman really and the most notable contributor is Ron Smith, here's his contribution in full...

Sadly I don;t knwo how long Pop lasted or how few/many issue Ron Smith contributed to.

War Story by Carlos Ezquerra (from issue 8)

My interest (obsession?) with all things Powerman continues...I've looked at Powerman before (here) and I've tried to gather together all the images I can find of this rare Nigerian comic by Brian Bolland & Dave Gibbons. Some more images recently became available (thanks ebay!) so I swiped them for posterity and they can be found as follows...

a). issue 18 is here

b). issue 16 is here

c). issue 10 is here

d). issue 9 is here

e). issue 8 is here

f). issue 7 is here

g). issue 11 is here

h). and there's an interview with Brian Bolland here
i). Ron Tiner talks Powerman here
But today I thought I shine the spotlight on the contribution that Carlos Ezquerra made to issue 8 (I looked at issue 11 here) - so here's Carlos's art from 1975 for you all to enjoy...

War Story by Carlos Ezquerra (from Powerman issue 11)

My interest (obsession?) with all things Powerman continues...I've looked at Powerman before (here) and I've tried to gather together all the images I can find of this rare Nigerian comic by Brian Bolland & Dave Gibbons. Some more images recently became available (thanks ebay!) so I swiped them for posterity and they can be found as follows...

a). issue 18 is here

b). issue 16 is here

c). issue 10 is here

d). issue 9 is here

e). issue 8 is here

f). issue 7 is here

g). issue 11 is here

h). and there's an interview with Brian Bolland here
i). Ron Tiner talks Powerman here
But today I thought I shine the spotlight on the contribution that Carlos Ezquerra made to issue 11 - so here's Carlos's art from 1975 for you all to enjoy...

it's an Awesome postcard art challenge

So, here we have the donations to date for my 'original sketch on a  postcard' challenge, in aid of Little Heroes comics - you can donate right here

I'll add more images as they arrive up until October 31st and then I'll sort out a way to let people buy raffle tickets to be in with a chance of winning - only when you get the art sent to you will you discover the artist responsible...

So without further ado, let's start with some art...this bird one is new...

The fox (original incarnation)

Amaya (from the Dragon Prince / Netflix)

Halloween bunny

Asterix & Obelix

Wulf & Johnny Alpha

Dylan Dog

Man-thing (after Ed Hannigan)

 Werewolf by night - after Don Perlin

 Ghost Rider - after Mike Ploog

Morbius - after Frank Robbins

Frankenstein - after Dick Briefer