Who's who of boys' writers and illustrators, 1964

Here's a recent sale (for £67.50) of  from ace ebayer phil-comics (here). It was described thus...

Edited, compiled and published by Brian Boyle, London, in April 1964, this book contains a wealth of information on the contributors of boys papers published by the Amalgamated Press, such as Boys' Friend Library, Boys' Own Paper, Detective Weekly, Sexton Blake Library, Schoolboys' Own Library, Union Jack and many others.
Thin card covers and 100 pages inside of purely text (no pictures). Odd crease and light mark to the covers. Two original staples present. 

A lovely guide. I wonder if there were other editions / issues published?? Do let me know if you've seen other ones, cheers!

UPDATED CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

Today's update is these two members handbooks that I'd not seen before. The first ('silver') is for 1985 and the second ('dark blue') covers the 1988/89 year. I'm intrigued to see who's contributed interior art to these and will post an update shortly.

Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain members handbook - 1985

Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain members handbook - 1988/89

Today's update is a look at the 1965 cartoonists club dinner & ball. An event so grand that the prime minister spoke at it!

All images are sourced from this large format (approx. A4) sized, about 80 page brochure. It's rammed with trade adverts & stuff so I've just picked out the most comic-y pages

The actual Prime Minister talking to a bunch of cartoonists!

Check out that fancy food that cartoonists eat!

Its a pretty strong list of winners...Leslie Illingworth, Harry Bishop, Frank Dickens, Reg Smythe, Osbert Lancaster, Jak, Larry

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...

Eagle - 14th March 1964

Recently (here) I looked at a 'pay copy' of an Eagle annual, well here's something very similar - a pay copy of a 1964 issue of Eagle

art by Keith Watson; script by David Motton

art by Gerald Palmer

script by J. Edgar; art by Paul Trevillion

pistol artwork by John Batchelor; fishing script by WD Keal; other script by Dinah Lawrence

Script by George Beardmore; art by Ron Embleton

Script & artwork by Grestock & Marsh (might be an art agency rather than a pair of contributors)

artwork by Frank Humphris; script b EG Cowan

UPDATED: Adventure stories for boys

This is a recent acquisition...

(first published 1967, 2nd impression 1968), hardback, 360 pages, sort of A5 sized and one in a series of similarly titled books.

why? Well, I was intrigued by the acknowledgements which clearly states that the material had all first been published in Eagle and Boys' World

The 2 titles had merged together on 10th October 1964 but I wondered if the text stories had first appeared in Eagle and Boys' World separately OR if they's appeared in the combined title? The stories are...

1). The Crime wave - Fielden Hughes

2). The speed kings - Robert Bateman

3). Adventure incorporated - James Kenner

4). Spell of magic - Harry Harrison

5). The ship that vanished - Odhams Press, 1963

6). High quest - Odhams Press, 1963

7). Hoodoo on the rangers - Odhams Press, 1964

8). A man's job - Odhams Press, 1964

A look at page 159 of this book...

...helped me put some dates to the stories above...

The ship that vanished ran in Boys' World volume 1 issue 1 to issue 10 [26/01/63 to 30/03/63]

Spell of magic then ran from (volume 1) issue 11 to issue 23 [06/04/63 to 29/06/63]

The speed kings then ran to (volume 1) issue 34 [06/07/63 to 14/09/63]

Adventure incorporated then ran to issue to (volume 1) issue 48 [21/09/63 to 21/12/63]

Hoodoo on the rangers then ran from (volume 1) issue 49 to volume 2  issue 13 [28/12/63 to 28/03/64]

A man's job then ran to (volume 2) issue 17 [04/04/64 to 25/04/64]

So that leaves The crime wave and High quest as stories to identify - I'm sure they're not in Boys' World but I can't find them in Eagle either - a mystery!

UPDATE: friend of the blog Norman Boyd has let me know that High quest ran in Eagle 14/10 (09/03/63) to 14/17 (27/04/63)...

...a quick comparison of the text shows that it has been re-written slightly for the book version but it's definitely the same story. Thanks Norman!

So that leaves The crime wave story to find - it must be in Eagle somewhere!

UPDATED CCGB - Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain

I've looked before at the Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain (CCGB) and some of the material that is out there for collectors. 

Today's update is a look at the 1965 cartoonists club dinner & ball. An event so grand that the prime minister spoke at it!

All images are sourced from this large format (approx. A4) sized, about 80 page brochure. It's rammed with trade adverts & stuff so I've just picked out the most comic-y pages

The actual Prime Minister talking to a bunch of cartoonists!

Check out that fancy food that cartoonists eat!

Its a pretty strong list of winners...Leslie Illingworth, Harry Bishop, Frank Dickens, Reg Smythe, Osbert Lancaster, Jak, Larry

There's a members handbook here, here and here

The book 'It's all here in black and white' is here

22nd annual birthday lunch is here

Since then I've come across further items that the club produced...

This was produced in 1964 (the club was formed in 1960)

This was produced (originally) in 1963 as British Cartoonists Year Book 1964 - this edition was published in March 1965

These were from a 1979 flight to New York

This was produced in 1989...