Boys Adventure Comics

8 November 2026

IPC news - millennium edition

I've looked before at IPC news (here) but here's another 'issue' that caught my eye recently. Yes, it's the IPC news millennium issue! It looks a bit grander than that issue I looked at previously. The book/magazine about the 200 year history of IPC sounds intriguing!

IPC magazines - publisher of the century

UPDATED: To help pass the time in the iso-cubes

I've looked at Comics calendars before (see here and here) but didn't realise there had ever been any Judge Dredd calendars before until a conversation about it popped up on the '2000AD & Judge Dredd tat and chat' facebook group.

UPDATE (8th November 2026) - now with the 2027 wall calendar added to this listing...

I started looking for traditional 'wall' calendars for this post but I've decided to expand it to look at all types of calendars. All new material is in red.

So with thanks to Ian Anorak Hollingsworth (and ebay!) here we go...

The 1989 calendar - presumably published by Titan as the images look like the covers from their reprint volumes

Poster calendar for 1993

Judge Dredd calendar 1993

given away free as follows:

Megazine 10, Sep 05-18 1992 = January, February November, December

Megazine 11, Sep 19-Oct 5 1992 = March, April, September, October

Megazine 12, Oct 06-19 1992 = May, June, July, August

all images c/o ebay seller hyperbOrean

Poster calendar 1994

This art by John McCrea

This art by Chris Halls

Free with Megazine #38 (October 2-15)

Poster calendar 2003

free with Megazine issue #201 (dated January 2003)

Poster calendar 2004

I'm unclear where this originated from

Wall Calendar for 2016 (front and back cover)

There's a more detailed look at this here

Wall Calendar for 2017

7 November 2026

UPDATED: Ewoks - Marvel UK

UPDATE: 17th October 2026 - now with covers for issues 6 & 10 added

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 10 issue Ewoks comic from 1987-88.

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #1, November 1987, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #2, December 1987, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #3, January 1988, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #4, February 1988, 45p
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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #5, March 1988, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #6, April 1988, 45p

Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #7, May 1988, 45p
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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #8, June 1988, 45p
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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #9, July 1988, 45p
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Ewoks, Marvel UK, issue #10, August 1988, 45p

6 November 2026

Commando at the National Army Museum (2011) - part 4

Looking through some of photos the other day I came across a bunch from 2011 that had somehow never been recycled onto the blog. To make up for that here's my first batch of images from the 2011/12 Commando themed exhibition that ran at the National Army Museum (in London's Chelsea). My original review for it is here.

Part 1 of my photos were here

Part 2 of my photos were here

Part 3 of my photos were here

Scott Montgomery

George Low

5 November 2026

comics t-shirts

I'm grateful to Claire Le Grand for her permission to share these photos that she has in her possession. Extremely rare.

Cheeky comic t-shirt

Whizzer and Chips comic t-shirt

Whoopee! comic t-shirt

4 November 2026

VR Troopers - episode guide

I've looked before at comics related to VR Troopers and today's post isn't actually about comics but I've included it for completeness as I often see these on ebay.

Previously I've looked at the Phoenix Press & Marvel comic here

VR Troopers official episode guide #1

VR Troopers official episode guide #2 (episodes ???)

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VR Troopers official episode guide #3 (episodes 16-23)

VR Troopers official episode guide #4 (episodes 24-31)

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VR Troopers official episode guide #5 (episodes 32-39)

At the time of typing this is for sale here

3 November 2026

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