UPDATED: Beep! Beep! - Marvel UK, 1989/90

Michael Carroll's timeline of Marvel UK comics (here) has an array of interestingly short-lived comics on that I thought I should create cover galleries for them. Sometimes this is easier said than done but let's look at Beep! Beep! from 1989/90.

First issue has a cover date of 25th March 1989 (priced at 45p and with a free badge). 

It merged with Sylvanian families (whose final issue was #30, cover dated 2nd December 1989) with issue 20. The title then becomes Beep! Beep! presents original Sylvanian Families

See my work on Sylvanian Families here.

Denis Gifford (in ACE newsletter #113. March/April 1990) records issue #24 as being the final issue. That's 2 issues more than Michael records. We'll only know for sure who's right I suppose if/when a cover for issue 24 is found. 

Searching for covers for this is hard because there's a title with the same name all about a popular cartoon road runner character. Sigh.

UPDATE (29th July 2026) - now with a cover for issue #6

Update for this post - the cover for issue #2 & issue 14 have been identified

Beep! Beep!, issue 1, Marvel UK, 25th March 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 2, Marvel UK, 8th April 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 3, Marvel UK, 22nd April 1989

cover is signed by "Colin"

Beep! Beep!, issue 4, Marvel UK, 6th May 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 5, Marvel UK, 20th May 1989

cover is signed by "Colin"

Beep! Beep!, issue 6, Marvel UK, 3rd June 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 7, Marvel UK, 17th June 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 8, Marvel UK, 1st July 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 9, Marvel UK, 15th July 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 10, Marvel UK, 29th July 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 11, Marvel UK, 12th August 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 12, Marvel UK, 26th August 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 13, Marvel UK, 9th September 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 14, Marvel UK, 23rd September 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 15, Marvel UK, 7th October 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 16, Marvel UK, 21st October 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 17, Marvel UK, 4th November 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 18, Marvel UK, 18th November 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 19, Marvel UK, 2nd December 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 20, Marvel UK, 16th December 1989

Beep! Beep!, issue 21, Marvel UK, 30th December 1989

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 22, Marvel UK, 13th January 1990

Marvel UK had produced an Acorn Green comic in 1986/87 so I wonder if this is new Acorn Green material or reprints?

Beep! Beep!, issue 23, Marvel UK, 27th January 1990

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Beep! Beep!, issue 24, Marvel UK, 10th February 1990

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Get along gang weekly - covers gallery, part 5

I'm indebted to friend of the blog (and mad keen Marvel UK collector) Richard Gilham for taking the time to share these covers from his collection. Yes, it's the start of a Get along gang covers gallery! Marvel UK published 93 issues in total from April 1985 to January 1987.

Part 1 (issues 1-8) was here

Part 2 (issues 9-16) was here

Part 3 (issues 17-24) was here

Part 4 (issues 25-32) was here

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #33, 30p, 30th November 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #34, 30p, 7th December 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #35, 30p, 14th December 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #36, 30p, 21st December 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #37, 30p, 28th December 1985

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #38, 30p, 4th January 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #39, 30p, 11th Decmber 1986

Get along gang, Marvel UK, issue #40, 30p, 18th January 1986

Tiny Tots poster

A lovely promotional poster (for a newsagent) for Tiny Tots comic. On sale from that finder of rare comics items the-lewes-bookshelf

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 12

Recently (ish!) finished at the Cartoon Museum (here) was their exhibition 'Heroes! The British invasion of American comics'. 

For anyone who couldn't make it here's part 12 of my look at what you missed...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

Part 5 was here

Part 6 was here

Part 7 was here

Part 8 was here

Part 9 was here

Part 10 was here

Part 11 was here

UPDATED: All the Bears

There's a story to be unpicked somewhere about all the following characters and, right now, I'm not sure how it all hangs together so I just need to start somewhere by working out all the instances of the character appearances that I've found so far.

The characters are Star Bears, Scare Bears and Were Bears...

UPDATE (25th July 2026)...here's a packet of glow-in-the-dark stickers (available, at the time of typing, here for £59.99)

UPDATE (01/05/26): Here's a 48 page long, full colour, A4 sized comic that I've never seen before...

and here's the back page...

So the comic contents are as follows...

1). front cover - 1 page

2). Scare Bears meet the St. John badgers - 2 pages, new material

3). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)

4). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)

5). Scare Bears - 12 pages

6). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #2)

7). map of the events going on in Hyde Park that day - 2 pages

8). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprint from Zodiac comic #3)

9). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (possible reprint from Zodiac comic #4)

10). Star Bears - 6 pages, (possible reprint from Zodiac comic #4)

11). Scare Bears - 3 pages, reprinted from Zodiac comic #2

12). advert - 1 page

13). rear cover - 1 page

UPDATED: I've found an image of the Scare Bears stickers (25 in a pack for 24p!) so I've added that in below...

1). Star Bears 

Created by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas

Here and here I looked at Z comic...

...which has 4 pages of Star Bears content...

...and then there was the sticker book (here)

And in this book there's a 6 page strip...

Here's an example page...

2). Scare Bears 

Illustrated by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas

Illustrated by George Nicholas

This featured in the sticker book (here)

Here and here I looked at Z comic...

which featured a 4 page Scare Bears strip

there was also the Scare Bears monster party book that I looked at here

The Scare Bear also feature on the cover of 'Cartoon Aid' which I looked at here

and this has two newspaper style strips

plus this full-colour 12-page strip (illustrated by George Nicholas - my list of his work here)

3). Were Bears 

another comic from George Nicholas - which I looked at in more detail here - a title from 1990/1. So I'm assuming that the Scare Bears evolved into Were bears