UPDATED: Zip comic (1958/9) - covers gallery

I've long wondered about collecting Zip comic but it seems to turn up so infrequently to make that impossible. It lasted 85 issues and there were 2 annuals too. So, instead of collecting it I thought I'd start a covers gallery instead. 

Update (20th Oct 2026); now updated with covers for issues 27, 28 & 30

Now updated with covers for issue 2, 3, 4 & 5

Zip comic #1, January 4th 1958

Zip comic #2, January 11th 1958

Zip comic #3, January 18th 1958

Zip comic #4, January 25th 1958

Zip comic #5, February 1st 1958

Zip comic #7, February 15th 1958

Zip comic #13, February 15th 1958

Zip comic #27, July 5th 1958

contributors include Don Lawrence (uncredited) & Gerry Embleton

Zip comic #28, July 12th 1958

contributors include Don Lawrence (uncredited)

Zip comic #30, July 26th 1958

contributors include Don Lawrence (uncredited)

Zip comic #44, November 1st 1958

Zip comic #46, November 15th 1958

Zip comic #49, December 6th 1958

Zip comic #55, January 17th 1959

Zip comic #62, March 7th 1959

Zip comic #73, May 23rd 1959

I've got issues dated...

5th July 1958

12th July 1958

26th July 1958

Jim Baikie - Orkney exhibition, part 11

For approximately the umpteenth time I'm indebted to Norman Boyd for his help with this blog. This time he was kind enough to send me some of his holiday photos from a recent trip to the Orkneys. 

Whilst there he was able to visit the exhibition all about the local artist that was on (from 03/05/25 - 21/09/25) at the Orkney museum in Kirkwall. Comics artist Jim Baikie was the focus of the exhibition. Norman took a lot of photos so I'll spread them over a number of posts, enjoy!   

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

UPDATED: The real Ghostbusters - collected comics

Update (18th October 2026) - I've added the cover to issue #8 (with thanks to Richard Gilham) and #12 (with thanks to John Bolton). That just leaves the cover for issue #10 to find. Nearly there!

Update 11th Sep 2026 - I've added a cover for the Winter Special (from November 1989)

I'm not a collector of Marvel UK's 'The Real Ghostbusters' comic but I've seen that the collected editions seem to be quite expensive so I thought I'd see if I could identify how many there are.

Ideally I'd love to be able to tell you what stories they reprinted (and from which issues) and which issue of the comic the cover has come from but, sadly, I can't. 

Instead if you can help me fill the gaps in the covers gallery below (#8 and #10) and confirm if the series went beyond #11 that would be very helpful!

Enjoy!  

UPDATE: I've now identified that there was an issue 13 - so I've added that to the gallery.

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 1

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 2

from 1989

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 3

from July 1990

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 4

1991 Summer special

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 5

from February 1992

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 6

from May 1992; the cover had been originally used on issue #90

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 7

from December 1992

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 8

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 9

Holiday special 1993

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 10

image not to hand - can you help?

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 11

produced in 1994

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 12

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 13

image c/o here

and there was this too

There was also a Winter special - no image of that to hand

and here's what that Winter special looks like

Comic Cutz - the art of Barrie Mitchell (part 14)

The Barrie Mitchell exhibition that took place in Ryde in February 2026 had many highlights and a LOT of art. I tried to take photos of all the art but there was too much! Anyway, here's the start of a long series of posts all about the art that was there...

1). Harlem Heroes was here

2). paintings of cars was here

3). his work for Red Dwarf was here

4). some football art was here

5). some Dr Who art was here

6). some more Dr Who art was here

7). yet more Dr Who art was here

8). even more Dr Who art was here

9). a final selection of Dr Who art was here

10). some Marks Brothers art was here

11). his work on Scorer was here here

12). some of his recent paintings was here

13). some character sketches were here

Here's a strip The blues...this appeared in the (2nd) Football picture story special. See here for an image of the cover

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 6

page 7

page 8

page 9 was either unphotographed or not there!

page 10