Boys Adventure Comics: UPDATED: Etherington brothers comics

21 April 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 MORE new comics I've discovered

I've shown The drawing board before but this is a better image

ok, to be fair I'm not sure if this next one exists, this is an advert in the back of Malcolm Magic #2 and....

...in the back of Malcolm Magic #3 there's this advert [below]...with an accompanying blurb that says...

exclusive previews of Trouble Shooter, Dust to Dust and Malcolm Magic can be found only in the 24 page Blink Twice extravaganza The Drawing Board [see image above] available from June, featuring character profiles, brand new artwork, unseen pages and more!

so, in conclusion I don't think Trouble Shooter or Dust to Dust exist as standalone comics. If I'm wrong that's fine, just let me know!

This is from an advert on the back of Malcolm Magic #11 which features all sorts of published work but this is clearly the image from above re-used and it says 'comic book board' at the top. What is this? Well there's an advert in Malcolm Magic #7 that has a category called 'art products' which uses the image below [albeit without the Blink twice logo in the top right corner] and says 'Blink Twice comic book board'. Anyway, in conclusion, I don't think there's a comic out there called Comic Book Board. If I'm wrong that's fine, just let me know!

Another sketchbook here, this is titled 'some kind of a sketchbook by Lorenzo'. One night in the city book 1 does appear to have been published - it features in the advert on the back of Malcolm Magic #11 - so there must be copies out there somewhere folks!

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 Blibk 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