Boys Adventure Comics

28 August 2026

Eagle #1 - the promotional copy

Some images (c/o here on the Book Palace website) of the rarely seen (8 page) promotional copy of Eagle. Note the incorrect date (21st April rather than 14th April), the missing 'Dan Dare - pilot of the future' masthead and the length (8 pages rather than 20). This was snapped up for £400.

27 August 2026

Get along gang weekly - covers gallery, part 6

I'm indebted to friend of the blog (and mad keen Marvel UK collector) Richard Gilham for taking the time to share these covers from his collection. Yes, it's the start of a Get along gang covers gallery! Marvel UK published 93 issues in total from April 1985 to January 1987.

Part 1 (issues 1-8) was here

Part 2 (issues 9-16) was here

Part 3 (issues 17-24) was here

Part 4 (issues 25-32) was here

Part 5 (issues 33-40) was here

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #41, 30p, 25th January 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #42, 30p, 1st February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #43, 30p, 8th February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #44, 30p, 15th February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #45, 30p, 22nd February 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #46, 30p, 1st March 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #47, 30p, 8th March 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #48, 30p, 15th March 1986

26 August 2026

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 13

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here) was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'.

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 13 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

Part 5 was here

Part 6 was here

Part 7 was here

Part 8 was here

Part 9 was here

Part 10 was here

Part 11 was here

Part 12 was here

25 August 2026

SSI journal - 1986

I've looked before at all things to do with the SSI (Society of Strip Illustration) here and I like the newsletters they produced BUT these were produced in very low quantities so you stand virtually no chance of collecting a set.

I've looked at some examples of the SSI journal for

1992 here

1981 here

1982 here

1983 here

1985 here

and for other years I'm just going to collect images for the covers as and when they come up for sale on ebay. Over time we might end up with a full (??) set. So here's the start of a covers gallery for SSI journal for 1986...

SSI journal, August 1986

24 August 2026

Lawless 2026 - part 2

As ever there's SO much going on at Lawless convention that it's hard to try and take it all in, however I did manage to take a few photographs this year. I've grouped them together thematically and hopefully they'll bring back pleasant memories or inspire you to go to Lawless 2027 (being held on the 15th and 16th May 2027).

First up is Steve Dillon (t-shirts & art) here

Next up is just some of the original comic art that was on sale...

John Cooper art

David Pugh art

Ian Gibson art

George & Lynne artwork

John Bolton artwork (from Amazing High Adventure)

23 August 2026

Tarkan - covers gallery, part 3

Tarkan is a well-known Turkish comic character (see his wikipedia entry here). It first appeared in 1967. In 1973 there was a short-lived pan-European comic published in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Luxembourg and here in England too. Full colour, 16 pages in length.

Here's the start of a covers gallery for this title...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Tarkan, weekly, #15, 9th June 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #16, 16th June 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #17, 23rd June 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #18, 30th June 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #19, 7th July 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #20, 14th July 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #21, 21st July 1973

all images from this ebay seller

22 August 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 (22/08/06); thanks to friend of the blog Richard Gilham we can now add the covers for issues 11, 12, 13, 14 & 15 to the covers gallery

UPDATED (22/07/26); thanks to friend of the blog Richard Gilham we can now add the covers for issues 3, 4, 5, 6 & 9 to the covers gallery

UPDATED (22/06/26)

I'm indebted to Frank Motler for highlighting these two 'Dennis' publications. Any more out there?

150 adventures of The Pickle, Corgi Cartoons, Hank Ketcham

Dennis annual 1988

and to friend of the blog Richard Gilham for supplying the images below of issues 1 & 3 of the Dennis special that publishers London Editions produced

Dennis special #1, London Editions

Dennis special #3, London Editions

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 London Editions

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