UPDATED: Cosmic magazine

The other day (here) I looked at Take a Break spin-off magazine - "Cosmic - the BEST kids' magazine in the universe" - this starred Captain Cosmic (who has his own annual here). I've now identified further issues of Cosmic and present them here...

Contributors are as follows:

Scripts: Guy Campbell

Pencils: Paul Moran

Inks: Simon Ecob

Colour: James McAlister

Plus for the final issue (red cover, dated 11-24 February 1999) there's also...

Glenn Dakin providing the script for the Taliska story, Adrian Salmon providing the pencils & Bambos Georgiou the inks. David Leach also get a shout out.

Updated issues are shown in red - thanks to "3DEB" who sent me some images; 3DEB entered (and won!) some of the competitions and is still the proud owner of a Captain Cosmic ruler and pencil sharpener.

UPDATE for this post - 4 covers, thanks to friend of the blog John Freeman

Volume 1

Cosmic magazine - volume 1, issue 0, July 1997

Cosmic magazine - volume 1, issue 1, August 1997

Cosmic magazine - volume 1, issue 2, September 1997

Cosmic magazine - volume 1, issue 3, October 1997

Cosmic magazine - volume 1, issue 4, November 1997

Cosmic magazine - volume 1, issue 5, December 1997

Volume 1 is thought to last 5 issues (so Aug-97 to Dec-97)

Volume 2

Volume 2 is 13 issues long; monthly dated issues from Jan-98 to Dec-98 and then up to at least issue 13 (which is dated 26 November - 9 December 1998). So I suppose there could be an issue 14, which would be dated 10 December 1998 - 23 December 1998, which seems an odd date to finish the year on. I suspect there were only 13 issues as these could have been published 4-weekly with then a 'Christmas' issue to make up the gap between publishing monthly and publishing every 4 weeks.

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 1, January 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 2, February 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 3, March 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 4, April 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 5, May 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 6, June 1998

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Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 7, July 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 8, August 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 9, September 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 10, October 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 11, November 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 12, December 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 13

This is dated 26 November 1998 - 9 December 1998

Cosmic magazine - volume 2, issue 14

This is dated 10 December 1998 - 29 December 1998

Volume 3

Cosmic magazine - issue 4

The dating of issue 4 as 11 Feb - 24 Feb means that previous issues are presumably dated as follows:

Issue 3 = 28 Jan - 10 Feb 1999

Issue 2 = 14 Jan - 27 Jan 1999

Issue 1 = 30 Dec - 13 Jan 1999

so Cosmic has moved from being published "monthly" to being published every fortnight

Cosmic magazine - issue 5, 25 February - 10 March 1999

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Cosmic magazine - issue 6, 11 March - 24 March 1999

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Cosmic magazine - issue 7, 25 March -7 April 1999

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Cosmic magazine - issue 8, 8-21 April 1999

Cosmic magazine - issue 9, 22 April - 5 May 1999

Sadly I've no idea how many further issues / volumes there were - if you know (or can fill in any of the gaps above) do just get in touch.

The format is consistent throughout...52 pages, plenty of comics, quizzes, competitions, posters, information, reviews - all that sort of stuff really that kids love. Issues have a Captain Cosmic strip at the start followed by Taliska's travels in time strip.

Further details have come to light since that first post...