Simon Davis - Panter & Hall (part 1 of 3)

The (2000AD) artist Simon Davies recently had a show of his fine art paintings in London recently (at Panter & Hall). I went and photographed the art. Enjoy!

The first set of photos are here... 

The Flintstones and friends - part 2

I've looked before at Flintstones comics before (here) but I haven't looked at The Flintstones and friends comic (Marvel UK, 1988/89) specifically. Part 1 (issues 1-6) was here

So, without further ado, here's part 2 of my covers gallery for this 24 issues series...

All images are c/o friend of the blog Richard Gilham. Thanks very much!

The Flintstones and friends, Marvel UK, issue 7, 38p, 30th July 1988

The Flintstones and friends, Marvel UK, issue 8, 38p, 13th August 1988

The Flintstones and friends, Marvel UK, issue 9, 38p, 27th August 1988

The Flintstones and friends, Marvel UK, issue 10, 38p, 10th September 1988

The Flintstones and friends, Marvel UK, issue 11, 38p, 24th September 1988

The Flintstones and friends, Marvel UK, issue 12, 38p, 8th October 1988

Scream Inn - Brian Walker

A recent sale by ace ebay seller philcomics of this piece of art by Brian Walker. This was produced for the 1976 (British) comicon, a lovely piece that someone was happy to pay £205 for. 

UPDATED: Bugs Bunny - London Editions & more!

Ok, so I'm filing this one under "comics I know nothing about". However, you've got to start somewhere! So here, from 1991, is issue #2 of Bugs Bunny - published by London Editions. 

There have been LOTS of comics featuring ol' Bugs over the years but I'm JUST looking for issues published by London Editions - can you help me out?? Thanks!

Now with a cover for Bugs Bunny monthly #1 added 

1). Bugs Bunny, London editions

Bugs Bunny issue #1, London Editions, ??p

image not to hand - can you help?

Bugs Bunny issue #2, London Editions, 85p

Bugs Bunny issue #3, London Editions, ??p

image not to hand - can you help?

Bugs Bunny issue #4, London Editions, 90p

image not to hand - can you help?

Bugs Bunny issue #5, London Editions, 95p

Bugs Bunny issue #6, London Editions, 95p

where there are more issues?

I now think that Bugs Bunny monthly must have been a different title - it might still have come from London Editions - the price box is very similar on Bugs Bunny #6 (above) and Bugs Bunny monthly #6 (below). If you have images of Bugs Bunny monthly #1-5 that would really help!

2). Bugs Bunny monthly, publisher unknown

Bugs Bunny monthly issue #1, 90p

ok, so I think this goes here

a).The title is correct

b). The price (90p) agrees with other issue of Bugs Bunny monthly and is not the same as Bugs Bunny (above)

BUT 

c). the title font is very different to issue 6 onwards of Bugs Bunny monthly (see below). It's the font used on the Bugs Bunny comics (above). Confusing. 

Bugs Bunny monthly issue #6, 90p

Bugs Bunny monthly issue #7, 90p

Bugs Bunny monthly issue #8, 90p

But then there these other Bugs Bunny comics too...

3). Bugs Bunny, the rectangle years

I'm putting these 2 together because the 'sale or return' box is in a rectangle on both

4). Bugs Bunny, London editions (part 2) or maybe not
This might be issue #12 of the regular Bugs Bunny run from London Editions [section 1]. I say this because:

a). the price is the same (95p)

b). the logo in the top left is very similar

BUT...

the font for the title has changed (and is now like the one used for Bugs Bunny monthly comic) 

Overkill - covers gallery, part 6

I've long been curious about Marvel UK's Overkill title - how long did it run for? Cover artists? Contents? All that sort of stuff. As ever, the only way to satisfy my curiosity was to start with a covers gallery. 

Part 1 (issues 1-7) was here

Part 2 (issues 8-14) was here

Part 3 (issues 15-21) was here

Part 4 (issues 22-28) was here

Part 5 (issues 29-35) was here

Part 6 is below

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #36, 27th August 1993, 60p, cover art by John Romita Jr

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #37, 10th September 1993, 60p, cover art by Nick Percival

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #38, 24th September 1993, 60p, cover art by Carl Critchlow

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #39, 8th October 1993, 60p, cover art by Mark Harrison

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #40, 22nd October 1993, 60p, cover art by Salvador Larocca

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #41, 5th November 1993, 60p, cover art by Nick Percival

Overkill, Marvel UK, issue #42, 19th November 1993, 60p, cover art by Siku

UPDATED: Marvel UK's 'Casper' comic (volume 1)

Update for this blog post...cover for issue 11 has been identified. That just leaves covers for issue 6 missing.

Always a delight to get a new covers gallery underway. Today is's Marvel UK and their Casper comic from 1995/6. All because of his movie that came out that year. Not done much digging yet to see how long this lasted, but there's a movie special and 11 regular issues to collect...

Casper, Marvel UK movie special, 16th August 1995, £1.75

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 1, 13th September 1995, 99p

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 2, 11th October 1995, 99p

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 3, 8th November 1995, 99p

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 4, 6th December 1995, 99p

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 5, 3rd January 1996

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 6, 31st January 1996

image not to hand - can you help?

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 7, 28th February 1996, £1.10

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 8, 27th March 1996, £1.10

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 9, 24th April 1996, £1.10

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 10, 22nd May 1996, £1.10

Casper, Marvel UK, issue 11, 19th June 1996

Eric Parker - life drawings (part 2 of 10) - NSFW!

I've recently begun a lengthy series of blog posts all about renowned illustrator Eric Parker (check out his Wikipedia entry here) who had a 50 year (!) career as a comic illustrator.

I've looked at Roughs (part 1) here
Roughs (part 2) here
Roughs (part 3) here
Roughs (part 4) here
Female heads (part 1) here
Female heads (part 2) here
Female heads (part 3) here
Female heads (part 4) here
Pubs (part 1) here
Pubs (part 2) here

Overseas (part 1) here

Overseas (part 2) here

Overseas (part 3) here

Overseas (part 4) here

Overseas (part 5) here

Overseas (part 6) here

Overseas (part 7) here

Overseas (part 8) here

Overseas (part 9) here

Overseas (part 10) here

UK scenes (part 1) here

UK scenes (part 2) here

UK scenes (part 3) here

UK scenes (part 4) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 1) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 2) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 3) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 4) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 5) here

Character studies & groups, drafts (part 6) here

Life drawings (part 1) here

And now we turn our attention to some of his life drawings...

Space-cup away!

I'm always happy to feature unusual bits of Eagle merchandise on the blog. 

There were...

Dan Dare roller skates here

Dan Dare hairbrush here

Dan Dare tie clip here

Eagle stationery here

Eagle club notebook here

With the compliments of the Eagle club here

Eagle / Girl table tennis medals here

Eagle club cycle pennant here

Dan Dare gyro jeep here

Dan Dare space shooting here

Dan Dare rocket ball here

Dan Dare beach ball here

Dan Dare bagatelle here

Eagle report to members (1951) here

Dan Dare field glasses here

Dan Dare interplanetary dominoes here

Dan Dare space-ship construction game here

Dan Dare draughts here

Dan Dare transfers (1) here

Dan Dare transfers (2) here

Riders of the Range painting book here

Dan Dare models here

Silver Eagler here

Today we have some images of the Horlicks 'space-cup' - which I think looks like a great bit of merchandise to own. This was tied in to the Dan Dare radio show on Radio Luxembourg