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25 May 2026

Lew Stringer small-press comics

Recently (here) I highlighted one of Lew Stringer's early (1999) comic collections, The microlife of Alistair Sadgitt...

...and it made wonder what other (early) collections of Lew's work are out there to be found...

You can check out all previous mentions of Lew on the blog here

The last mention for Lew on the blog featured his Combat Colin comic produced waaaaaay back in the year 2000 - check it out here

But a quick google (here) turned up two other Combat Colin comics that I don't have...

Combat Colin - summer special 1967?!

Yampy Tale #1

are there more titles out there that I should know about? Let me know!

24 May 2026

UPDATED: Power Rangers - Northern & Shell (1995)

In 1995 magazine/newspaper publishers Northern & Shell became a short-lived comics publisher. This is the first time I've featured them on the blog. This comic lasted just 8 issues and the quantity was ok. There's a lot of Power Rangers comic out there so good luck hunting these down.

Cover to issue 8 has now been added to the covers gallery which is now complete. I just need issue #8.

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 1, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 2, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 3, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 4, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 5, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 6, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 7, 1995

Power Rangers, Northern & Shell, issue 8, 1995

As well as the A4 sized comics above (with all new originated material) there was also this US comic sized Christmas special. This contained US reprint material - four stories in particular...Reach out and crash someone!, Playing dirty, The copy catastrophe and A simple misunderstanding.

23 May 2026

recent Frank Hampson art sales

Just recording for posterity the hammer price for these recent sales of original Frank Hampson artwork. They were sold on 16th April 2026 as part of the 'British Art & Design' sale held by auctioneers Kinghams (in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire)

Lot 298 - £1200

Lot 297 - £700

Lot 296 - £650

Lot 295 - £700

22 May 2026

UPDATED: David Wright books

For anyone (like me) who's struggled to keep up with the recent flourish of Carol Day (newspaper strip) reprint books that have been published over the last few years here's my handy guide to what you've missed so far...

UPDATE (22/05/26) - 2 more books (albeit not Carol Day books)

David Wright's Judy - order it via the Book Palace here

David Wight's Jo - reserve it via the Book Palace here

2 hardback books to start with...

David Wright's Carol Day - Lance Hallam

David Wright's Carol Day - Jack Slingsby

and then there were 3 softcover books...

David Wright's Carol Day - Cousin Hugo

David Wright's Carol Day - Last of the line

David Wright's Carol Day - Riverside racket

These three books were also available in a slipcase edition...

There were also hardcover & softcover editions of this 'taster' volume produced

The best place to get these books seems to be the Book Palace website - search here

21 May 2026

UPDATED: Scouse Mouse an incomplete guide

UPDATED (21/05/26) - with one more cover for Whizzer & Chips that include 'with Scouse Mouse' in the title. Just one more to find now!

UPDATED (21/03/26) - with 2 (of the 4) covers for Whizzer & Chips that include 'with Scouse Mouse' in the title

New comic highlighted in purple...

One of the first comics I ever blogged about was 'Ace' or 'Scouse Mouse presents Ace!' comic to give it it's full title.

I'm still not clear on the chronology of this comic but I know that the last issue was April 1989 (see the Werewolf cover, below).

Scouse Mouse presents the Ace! comic, fun special

Scouse Mouse presents Ace! comic, issue 1

Scouse Mouse presents Ace! comic, issue 2

Scouse Mouse comic, issue 3

Based on the image from the image on the back of issue 3 (above) we know that the title was then re-named 'Scouse Mouse and the scallywags'...

Scouse Mouse and the scallywags!comic, issue 4

ebay listing dates this to November 1987

This is un-numbered but if issue 4 (above) is from November then this is presumably issue #5 (December 1987)

It ends up as just being Scouse Mouse by the time it merges into Whizzer & Chips (on 15th April 1989 - the Scouse Mouse logo was dropped from the masthead after precisely 4 weeks, apparently) - so maybe the December date on the above comic means it's from 1988. Again, copyright dates are missing from these comics.

Scouse Mouse and the Scallywags, January 1988

Scouse Mouse and the Scallywags, Smoochy February Edition

Scouse Mouse and the Scallywags, Mad March Edition

Scouse Mouse and the Scallywags, Super Spring Edition

As this has the same price as previous issues I'm assuming it wasn't actually a holiday special type issue (despite the title) so I'd guess this was Spring 1988

Scouse Mouse and the Scallywags, Jolly June Edition

I'm assuming this is from June 1988 - Nigel Parkinson draws the first strip here (and has signed his work).

The comic ends up as just being Scouse Mouse by the time it merges into Whizzer & Chips (on 15th April 1989 - the Scouse Mouse logo was dropped from the masthead after precisely 4 weeks, apparently)...

Scouse Mouse (Fleetway) - issue 1, November 1988

Scouse Mouse (Fleetway) - issue 2, December 1988

Scouse Mouse (Fleetway) - issue 3, January 1989

Scouse Mouse (Fleetway) - issue 4, February 1989

image not to hand - can you help?

Scouse Mouse (Fleetway) - issue 5, March 1989

Scouse Mouse (Fleetway) - issue 6, April 1989

George Nicholas also worked on the Budgie Malone comic - which I looked at here , here and here as well as Were Bears comic (here). All 3 titles are hard to collect - so good luck in your collecting.

I've tried to piece together all the appearances of Were Bears, Star Bears and Scare Bears here

George has a website here

Friend of the blog Stephen Archer has let me have the following information about the 1989 issues of Whizzer & Chips...

Beginning with 15/4/89, and omitting 22/4, 17/6, 15/7, 16/9, 11/11, 18/11 and 9/12 (as those dates aren’t held by the British Library) and are thus uncheckable, Scouse Mouse appeared continuously until the end of the year with the exceptions of 14/10 and 2/12.

Whizzer and Chips with Scouse Mouse, 15th April 1989

Whizzer and Chips with Scouse Mouse, 22nd April 1989

Whizzer and Chips with Scouse Mouse, 29th April 1989

Whizzer and Chips with Scouse Mouse, 5th May 1989

cover not to hand - can you help?

Here's another 1989 issue of Whizzer and Chips that features Scouse Mouse on the cover

Comics artist Nigel Parkinson has provided this timeline...

a). 2 issues of ACE in 1986;

b). 13 issues of Scouse Mouse (and the Scallywags) published by Modelbrisk, 1987-8;

c). 6 issues of Scouse Mouse published by Fleetway 1988-9

20 May 2026

UPDATED: Dennis comic - Marvel UK

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 19 issue Dennis comic from 1989/90.

This would have been called Dennis the menace (since it's based on Hank Ketcham's US comic star) but here in the UK that was obviously a non-starter as an idea. It also makes it really hard to search for!

UPDATED (20/05/26)

There are further appearance of Dennis (Mitchell) in the following publications...

an annual from Marvel UK...

...and this special (#2) from an unknown publisher

UPDATE: I've now found the cover to issue 7. Interestingly the title has been amended from Dennis to Dennis Mitchell (which is the full name of the character - perhaps DC Thomson had been in touch to say the original title was too confusing???)

Dennis comic, #1, 30th November 1989, Marvel UK, 45p

image from here

Dennis comic, #2, 14th December 1989, Marvel UK, 45p