Boys Adventure Comics: UPDATED: Etherington brothers comics

13 March 2025

UPDATED: Etherington brothers comics - the early years

I've been interested in looking at the early comics works of the Etherington brothers for some time now and I've finally scooped up enough images to get me started. There's a lot of gaps here though so I'd be delighted for any help that anyone can give me.

THIS UPDATE: some Malcolm Magic sketchbooks and a couple of adverts...

Here we go then, The Malcolm Magic sketchbook and The 2nd Malcolm Magic sketchbook

Then there's this...this is a book which YOU could do sketches. What I do know from here is that only 10 were ever made. This might be 10 in total or 10 pink ones and 10 blue ones I'm not sure - anyway, my point is these are rarer than hen's teeth

This on the other hand does look like an actual Blink Twice comic so I'm hoping that more than 10 of these were produced

And a couple of adverts too...

The Moon! sketchbook 1, 2 & 3

The Moon! sketchbook 4 - as you can see this was limited to just 50 (!) copies and was available at the Bristol comic expo in May 2006

The Moon! sketchbook 5 - this was available at the London MCM Expo in October 2006

sketchbooks 6-9 (no images to hand) were produced after the London MCM Expo in October 2006 but before the London MCM Expo 26-27 May 2007. Were there 4 events that they could have attended in just 7 months?!?!

The Moon! sketchbook 10 - this was limited to just 75 (!) copies and was available at the London MCM Expo 26-27 May 2007

The Moon! sketchbook 11 - is the red comic in the centre of the bottom of this image. Image taken from here where they say

A copy of the 11th MOON! mini sketchbook, only available at the Birmingham comic con in 2007. The final MOON! sketchbook we made.

I've got one sketchbook (#10) and it's about half the size of a US comic book. I assume the others are a similar size. Good luck collecting any of these.

Moon! series companion

here's a better look at what the above image really looks like (below is an advert for the comic, above)

Yore!

This was (according to this link) was free with issue 6 of Dennis and Gnasher megazine #6. This was a collection of material that had previously appeared in The Dandy.

There's also Malcolm Magic. This appeared as single issues and then as collected editions. I don't have any images (yet!) of the single issues but I'm slightly better off with the collected editions. Here's volume 1...this has issues 1-3 collected