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

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

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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

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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

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

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

Dennis comic, #3, 28th December 1989, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #4, 11th January 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #5, 25th January 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #6, 8th February 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #7, 22nd February 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

Dennis comic, #8, 8th March 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #9, 22nd March 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #10, 5th April 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #11, 19th April 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #12, 3rd May 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #13, 17th May 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #14, 31st May 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #15, 14th June 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #16, 28th June 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #17, 12th July 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #18, 26th July 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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Dennis comic, #19, 9th August 1990, Marvel UK, 45p

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UPDATED: Cartoon Aid

I've looked before at publications associated with the Cartoon Aid charity (like Band Aid but with more cartoons and less Bob Geldof) - if you missed them they are as follows...

a). the Olympic book is here
b). Bryan Hitch's work in the Kidz book is here
c). Mike Collin's work in the Kidz book is here
d). Terry & Sheila Bave's work in the Kidz book is here
e). Simon Donald's work in the Kidz book is here
f). Cartoon Aid auction at Sotheby's & a festival in Margate is here

g). Waddington's jigsaw (from the Margate festival is here)

h). Scare Bears monster party book is here 

i). a REALLY big tome called Cartoon Aid here 

j). the 'Loadsa Funnies' telethon book featuring Judge Dredd art by Jim Baikie is here

k). same book but a Dredd strip by John Wagner & Mike Collins is here

l). same book but art by Bryan Hitch and Reg Smythe is here

m). same book but art by Davy Francis is here

n). same book but contributions by humour artists is here

o). same book - contributions by John M Burns, Dave Gibbons and others is here

I've started looking at some of the contents of this big book, so far I've looked at Asterix (here and here) and then I've found that there is some DC Thomson material in there (here) and then I've found some Achille Talon material (here) and some Look-In (here). The Lucky Luke material is here. 

There was also a t-shirt here

There was also a Dutch version of the book....looks like this material was unique to the Dutch version, it's not just a translation of the British version. Would make sense I guess as there'd be a LOT of speech bubbles to tinker with if you had to translate all the English language materiel into Dutch.

UPDATED: The incredible crash dummies - the comic

UPDATE 18/05/26: now with the cover for issue #4

From 1993 when, inexplicably, crash test dummies had a moment in the sun comes this tie-in comic The incredible crash dummies. It lasted at least 5 issues. Amy more information welcomed.

The incredible crash dummies comic, Redan, 1993, issue 1

The incredible crash dummies comic, Redan, 1993, issue 2

interior pages from issue #2

I can;t read the issue numbers here so...

I'm guessing the comic on the left is either issue 3 or 4

The issue on the right is number 5

The comic in the middle is titled 'The best of The incredible crash dummies' - no idea how many issues this ran to 

The incredible crash dummies comic, Redan, 1993, issue 4

Here's a slightly better cover image for 'Best of' - you can see it's the same cover as for issue #2