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26 September 2026

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 14

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 14 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

Part 13 was here

25 September 2026

Lawless 2026 - part 4

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

Some of the original comic art that was on sale here

Liam Sharp art here

Some more of the amazing Liam Sharp artwork that was on display

24 September 2026

UPDATED: - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

UPDATE (24/09/26); now with covers for issues 8 & 9 added + a piece of interior art from issue #6 (thanks to friend of the blog Andrew Wolf - check out his Miracleman blog on Tumblr here)

UPDATE (21/07/26); now with covers for issues 1 & 3 added

UPDATE (01/07/26); with thanks to Comics Tony & Ewan Brownlow for their feedback on the original post. Updated with covers for issues 4, 6 & 7.

Fusion fanzine, #1, 30p

cover by Alex Breadner

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #3, 30p

front cover art by Mark King

back cover art by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #4, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #6, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

interior art (from issue 6) of Black Alice by Grant Morrison and Tony O'Donnell

Fusion fanzine, #7, 40p

cover by Tony O'Donnell

Fusion fanzine, #8, 40p

cover by Tim Pearce

Fusion fanzine, #9, 40p

cover by Christopher Walsh

23 September 2026

Tarkan - covers gallery, part 4

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

Part 3 was here

Tarkan, weekly, #22, 28th July 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #23, 4th August 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #24, 11th August 1973

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Tarkan, weekly, #25, 18th August 1973

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Tarkan, weekly, #26, 25th August 1973

Tarkan, weekly, #27, 1st September 1973

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Tarkan, weekly, #28, 8th September 1973

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all images from this ebay seller

22 September 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 (22/09/06); thanks to friend of the blog Richard Gilham we can now add the covers for issues 16, 17, 18 & 19 to the covers gallery. Just images for covers 8 & 10 to find now!

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