Beano club newsletters

The Beano has produced a number of newsletters for fans - here are the issues I've found so far...I'm quietly confident that there are lots more out there but here are the issues I've found so far.

Beano club newsletter, #7, 2000

Beano club newsletter, summer 2000

Beano club newsletter, March 2003

Beano club newsletter, October 2003

Beano club newsletter, autumn 2005

Judge Dredd sketchbook - 32 pages of great artists

My favourite purchase in the current 2000AD sale has to be this Judge Dredd Sketchbook...cover by Dave McKean

It's available here for £3.75 (reduced from £14.99) and is a limited edition of 500 copies. Let's see who the artists included in this sketchbook are...

Charlie Adlard

Brian Bolland

John Burns

Andy Clarke

Simon Coleby

Mike Collins

Andrew Currie

Simon Davis

Rufus Dayglo

Carlos Ezquerra

Henry Flint

Leigh Gallagher

James Harren

John Higgins

PJ Holden

Frazer Irving

Cam Kennedy

Clint Langley

Colin MacNeil

John McCrea

Pye Parr

David Roach

Cliff Robinson

Alex Ronald

Tiernen Trevallion

Kev Walker

Chris Weston

Ben Willsher

Colin Wilson

That's a pretty awesome line up I think you'd agree - a great purchase

V for Vendetta at the Cartoon Museum - part 5 (of 6)

It's closed now but I just wanted a record of the Cartoon Museum's recent V for Vendetta exhibition so I'll be sharing my photos on here over the next few Sunday's.

Part 1 of my photos was here

Part 2 of my photos was here

Part 3 of my photos was here

Part 4 of my photos was here

all material is (c) David Lloyd 

UPDATED: Girl comic merchandise

I've added some new items of merchandise - and these are highlighted in red

I've previously looked at some of the spin-off merchandise associated with Swift comic (here), Swift books (here) and Robin comic merchandise (here). In a similar vein I thought I should look into the merchandise produced by their sister title Girl. I've looked at Girl novels (here and here) but this is the other merchandise that was produced.

I thought I'd be able to find more merchandise but googling 'girl comics merchandise' turns up a lot of stuff which is not to do with the Girl comic I'm after. Anyway, I'm sure more will turn up but here's what I've found so far...

Over on the www.dandare.info website (here) I've spotted these two Girl birthday cards...

The first features Wendy and Jinx

...and the second has Lettice Leefe and Miss Froth

This Girl diary for 1956 recently sold for £47...

I'm unsure how many years this ran for - in fact this is the first Girl diary I've ever seen. The Eagle equivalent was long established and ran from at least 1951-1963 (but was red not green). There was also a Swift diary but I've never seen one of those so I can't even say what colour that was! 

Also spotted this on ebay recently - looks like a plastic belt buckle 

Pelham puppet of 'Lettice Leefe' - a character created by John Ryan (who created Captain Pugwash and Harris Tweed for Eagle) 

Pelham also made a 'Belle of the Ballet' puppet as well

And then there's this - a Girl doll - featuring the Girl logo on the dress and the belt buckle

from 'British dolls of the 1950s' by Susan Brewer (2009)

And there's this piece of Eagle/Girl crossover merchandise - yes, it's a table tennis set!



I'm sure there's more out there so if you have any images you could share just let me know.

Ah, a carpet sweeper! What a delightful piece of tie-in merchandise

And here's some more Girl products - I'd love to get bigger and better pictures of all of these but at least it gives me some stuff to look for

from 'The history of girls' comics' by Susan Brewer (2010)

And, thanks to friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs we can also add these images...

...a blond haired version of the doll shown above...

...and a paintbox (which looks quite similar to the Swift paintbox that was also produced)...

Comics reference books of Ray Moore

My look at comic reference books has, to date, covered a number of authors such as...

Lofts & Adley is here

Alan Clark is here 

Dennis Gifford is here 

David Ashford is here

Now it's the turn of Ray Moore...again there may be 'variant' editions out there of these books which I've excluded (for now) but I'd still be interested in seeing them. These exist because they've been (re)printed a few times over the years.

The Dandy monster index 1937-1990 by Ray Moore

Here's a 'solo' volume 1 of the index

Topper tales by Ray Moore

The Beano diaries by Ray Moore

Info. on stories published up until the end of 1989. Saw a set on ebay that mentioned they were from an edition of 281 copies.

The Magic index by Ray Moore

The book of the Beezer by Ray Moore

Broons / Oor Wullie index by Ray Moore

image not to hand - can you help?

This was The Wizard by Derek Marsden and Ray Moore

The Dudley Watkins index of the Desperate Dan reprints 1969-83 by Ray Moore

The Buster index - Steve Holland & Ray Moore