The Real Ghostbusters covers gallery - part 1, issues 1-10

I've looked at a number of titles associated with The Real Ghostbusters 'brand' that were produced by Marvel UK...

Slimer here

Collected comics here

The best of Real Ghostbusters here
Puzzlebuster here

...but never the actual comics themselves. However, thanks to friend of the blog Stu Bartlett, I can now make up that deficit. There are a lot of 'em so I'll present them in batches of 10. So here we go then...

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #1, 38p, 26th March 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #2, 38p, 9th April 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #3, 38p, 23rd April 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #4, 38p, 7th May 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #5, 38p, 21st May 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #6, 38p, 4th June 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #7, 38p, 18th June 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #8, 38p, 2nd July 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #9, 38p, 16th July 1988

The Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #10, 38p, 30th July 1988

  

UPDATED: Asterix calendars

A well overdue update to my guide to collecting Asterix calendars - hope you managed to get one of these to hang on your wall, I didn't!

now (2nd November 2026) with a 2009 calendar added

now updated with calendars for 2027 - highlighted thus

Asterix & Obelix calendar 2027

Asterix calendar 2026

Asterix calendar 2025

Asterix calendar 2024

Asterix calendar 2023

A chance find at a bookshop in December 2019 has meant that, happily, an Asterix calendar has been hanging on my wall this year. 

2022 appears looks set to be a bumper year for Asterix calendars with these two calendars currently available on Amazon...

Working out a gift list for last Christmas inspired me to see if a calendar has been produced for...and, good news, it has been...and it's been on my wall all year

 

the calendar previously on my wall...

...I then started wondering if there had been calendars for other years...so far I've found just this one

A quick bit of googling brings up plenty of 'kalendars' for the German market but few others - or maybe they've just dropped the word 'kalendar' from the title (so that it can be sold more widely).

Anyway if you know of any other Asterix calendars do let me know - thanks.

Asterix calendar 2009

Asterix calendar 1991

Asterix calendar 1996

If you're interested in comic calendars then you can check out my previous posts on the subject...

1). Beano & Dandy calendars are here
2). Commando calendars are here
3). Judge Dredd calendars are here
4). Broons calendars are here, here and here
5). Oor Wullie is here
6). Dan Dare calendar is here
7). Miscellaneous calendars are here

8). Viz calendars are here

UPDATED: Slimer! - Marvel UK

Update 19th October 2026 - friend of the blog Richard Gilham has helped to complete the covers gallery by supplying Marvel UK covers for issues 7, 8 & 10

Update 8th September 2026 - now with a Marvel UK (rather than a Now Comics) cover for issue #6

Michael Carroll's timeline of Marvel UK comics (here) has an array of interestingly short-lived comics on that I thought I should create cover galleries for them. Sometimes this is easier said than done but let's start off with the 13 issue Slimer comic from 1989/90.

The comic was based on the Slimer! animated series, which was a spin-off of The Real Ghostbusters animated TV show and reprinted NOW! Comics Slimer! strips.

Many of the covers in this title’s run - but not all - were used NOW Comics US Slimer title, which had a longer run. Marvel's title featured reprints from NOW Comics, and NOW Comics utilised MUK material from The Real Ghostbusters in their title, and adapted some of the UK covers for the US market. For example, NOW Comics Slimer! #14 utilised their take on Dave Elliott's cover for The Real Ghostbusters #8...

You can look at other Ghostbusters related comic posts on this blog, as follows...

• Collected Comics here

• The Best of The Real Ghostbusters here

• The Real Ghostbusters - Puzzlebuster here

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #1, October 1989, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #2, November 1989, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #3, December 1989, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #4, January 1990, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #5, February 1990, 45p

cover by Patrick Owsley

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #6, March 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #7, April 1990, 50p

Online images of this edition are poor - can you help?

Here’s the NOW Comics edition, which used the same cover…

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #8, May 1990, 50p

Online images of this edition are poor - can you help?

Here’s the NOW Comics edition, which used the same cover…

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #9, June 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #10, July 1990, 50p

Online images of this edition are poor - can you help?

Here’s the NOW Comics edition, which used the same cover…

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #11, August 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #12, September 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #13, October 1990, 50p

Image sourced from here

Blimey! It's Slimer, Marvel UK, Holiday Special issue #1, 65p

There's a guide to Marvel UK's Slimer! title here on the Ghostbusters Fandom Wiki

There's a guide to NOW's Slimer! title here on the Ghostbusters Fandom Wiki

Eric Parker - miscellaneous work, part 18 (of 23)

I've recently begun a lengthy series of blog posts all about renowned illustrator Eric Parker (check out his Wikipedia entry here) who had a 50 year (!) career as a comic illustrator.

I've looked at Roughs (part 1) here
Roughs (part 2) here
Roughs (part 3) here
Roughs (part 4) here
Female heads (part 1) here
Female heads (part 2) here
Female heads (part 3) here
Female heads (part 4) here
Pubs (part 1) here
Pubs (part 2) here

Overseas (part 1) here

Overseas (part 2) here

Overseas (part 3) here

Overseas (part 4) here

Overseas (part 5) here

Overseas (part 6) here

Overseas (part 7) here

Overseas (part 8) here

Overseas (part 9) here

Overseas (part 10) here

UK scenes (part 1) here

UK scenes (part 2) here

UK scenes (part 3) here

UK scenes (part 4) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 1) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 2) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 3) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 4) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 5) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 6) here

Life drawings (part 1) here

Life drawings (part 2) here

Life drawings (part 3) here

Life drawings (part 4) here

Life drawings (part 5) here

Life drawings (part 6) XXXX

Life drawings (part 7) here

Life drawings (part 8) here

Life drawings (part 9) here

Life drawings (part 10) here

Gentlemen is here

Horses (part 1) is here

Horses (part 2) is here

Furniture is here

Old soldiers (part 1) is here

Old soldiers (part 2) is here

Old soldiers (part 3) is here

Sexton Blake is here

More soldiers is here

Miscellaneous is here

Layouts & scenes is here

Letters is here

Finished work (part 1) is here

Finished work (part 2) is here

Finished work (part 3) is here

Vintage women (part 1) is here

Vintage women (part 2) is here

And now we turn our attention to a final (albeit large selection of his work). Next up is his work on "modern women". These are a variety of sizes - from the very small to the quite large.