Tesco fun 'n games comic - issue 1

I've looked before at Tesco fun 'n games comic (here, here and here) so for the sake of completeness here are some more images - this time from issue 1...

Art by Don 'Dan Dare' Harley on the Captain Birdseye strip

The Mask adventures comic - Titan comics

Not a comic I've got any issues of but I thought it worthy of inclusion on the blog...so here we go with a covers gallery for The Mask adventures comic from Titan comics. Plenty of gaps still to fill in - please let me know if you can help.

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 1, March 1996

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 2, April 1996

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 3, May 1996

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 4, June 1996

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 5, July 1996

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 6, August 1996

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 7, September 1996

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 8, October 1996

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 9, November  1996

cover by Bruce Timm, art by Dev Madan, script by Michael Eury

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 10, December 1996

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 11, January 1997

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 12, February 1997

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 13, March 1997

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 14, April 1997

cover by Marc Campos, art by Killian Plunkett (pencils), Bruce patterson (inks) and Chris Chalenor (colours); script by Michael Fallon and Mark Verheiden

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 15, May 1997

The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 16, June 1997

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 17, July 1997

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 18, August 1997

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 19, September 1997

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The Mask Adventures comic, Titan comics, issue 20, October 1997

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I've listed this up to issue 20 as that's the last issue I can find in the 'advance listings' section of (contemporary comics magazine) Comics International - specifically in issue #85 (September 1997) of Comics International.

Images above are either swiped from ebay or from here

Frank Bellamy life drawing

Always a pleasure to feature Frank Bellamy on the blog - today's item is a life drawing currently up for sale (I'm not the seller) on ebay here

UPDATE: sells for £255

This was an image I hadn't seen before.

All other mentions of Bellamy on the blog can be found here

Catawiki auction ending 26th August 2021

Here are the original British comic art highlights from the latest Catawiki auction...

This piece by Romero - a typical action-packed Moesty Blaise piece

Another action-packed strip, this time it's Robot Archie (by Edward Kearon) - this is from the 1966 story 'The screeming beetle'

This distinctly non-action-packed cover (by William Francis Phillipps) for the 7th March 1964 cover of Teddy Bear comic

Another page from the Robot Archie story 'The Screeming  beetle' from Lion - I've highlighted just a single panel here to demonstrate Edward Kearon's skill

Here's an Axa strip by Romero used in The Sun in 29th May 1979

A Fernando Fernandez piece that doubtless ended up on the cover of a picture library somewhere (but I can't prove it!)

Best of Misty Monthly - part 3 (of 4)

A quick look at 1986's The best of Misty monthly. I'll list out the stories re-printed in each issue and, where I can identify them, the artist involved.

The best of Misty monthly issue 5 (printed by IPC) - June 1986

The final piece

Titch's tale..., art by John Richardson

Hangman's alley, art by Jesus Redondo

The family

Screaming point!, art by Jesus Redondo

It's a dog's life

The best of Misty monthly issue 6 (printed by IPC) - July 1986

Safe until morning

Slowcoach

Curse of the condor

House of horror

Last encounters

The day the sky grew dark, art by Romero

House of faith...

Danse macabre

Reflections, art by John Armstrong

UPDATED: Keith Burns covers for Commando

I first came across Keith Burns art when he illustrated the Titan comics Johnny Red series, since then he's just started illustrating Commando covers and the covers are fantastic. Here are the covers he's done so far...

Commando 5209 - American avenger

Commando 5215 - a matter of honour

Commando 5229 - shadow in the storm!

Commando 5241 - steel inferno

Commando 5251 - Radar raiders

Commando 5259 - Braddock

Commando 5267 - Braddock demons

Commando 5289 - the Wombat and the Tiger

Commando 5297 - fog of war

Commando 5299 - Sladen's promise

Commando 5307 - Stealing Stukas

Commando 5315 - Ironhide

Commando 5329 - Blitzkrieg west

Commando 5335 - Durand's Dunkirk

Commando 5337 - Dodger's Dunkirk

This issue is interconnected with issue 5337 Durand's Dunkirk but told from the perspective of the British fighting to stop their retreat.

Commando 5353 - Outgunned!

Commando 5355 - Bullseye Bruno

Commando 5377 - Third time lucky

Commando 5385 - The flying emu

Commando 5395 - HMAS Expendable

Commando 5411 - Ready for Anything!

Commando 5417 - The girls on the guns

Commando 5448 - Die-or walk!

Check out the third of our nine 60th Anniversary specials Issue 5448 Die — or Walk! Former editor Calum Laird's sequel to Commando Issue 1 Walk — or Die! has the table turned with the Brit carrying the Jerry!

Commando 5463 - Target Tomcat