UPDATED: Slimer! - Marvel UK

Update 8th September 2026 - now with a Marvel UK (rather than a Now Comics) cover for issue #6

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 start off with the 13 issue Slimer comic from 1989/90.

The comic was based on the Slimer! animated series, which was a spin-off of The Real Ghostbusters animated TV show and reprinted NOW! Comics Slimer! strips.

Many of the covers in this title’s run - but not all - were used NOW Comics US Slimer title, which had a longer run. Marvel's title featured reprints from NOW Comics, and NOW Comics utilised MUK material from The Real Ghostbusters in their title, and adapted some of the UK covers for the US market. For example, NOW Comics Slimer! #14 utilised their take on Dave Elliott's cover for The Real Ghostbusters #8...

You can look at other Ghostbusters related comic posts on this blog, as follows...

• Collected Comics here

• The Best of The Real Ghostbusters here

• The Real Ghostbusters - Puzzlebuster here

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #1, October 1989, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #2, November 1989, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #3, December 1989, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #4, January 1990, 45p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #5, February 1990, 45p

cover by Patrick Owsley

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #6, March 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #7, April 1990, 50p

Online images of this edition are poor - can you help?
Here’s the NOW Comics edition, which used the same cover…

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #8, May 1990, 50p
Online images of this edition are poor - can you help?
Here’s the NOW Comics edition, which used the same cover…

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #9, June 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #10, July 1990, ??p
 Online images of this edition are poor - can you help?
Here’s the NOW Comics edition, which used the same cover…

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #11, August 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #12, September 1990, 50p

Slimer, Marvel UK, issue #13, October 1990, 50p

Image sourced from here

Blimey! It's Slimer, Marvel UK, Holiday Special issue #1, 65p

There's a guide to Marvel UK's Slimer! title here on the Ghostbusters Fandom Wiki

There's a guide to NOW's Slimer! title here on the Ghostbusters Fandom Wiki

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 (13th August 2026)

My look at Z comic issue #3 is here - this contains a 4 page Star Bears strip ("Born under a bad sign"); 2 pages of 3 panel gag strips featuring the Scare Bears; a 4 pages Scare Bears strip (untitled but based around a skeleton needing a coat) 

My look at Z comic issue #4 is here - this contains a 6 page Star Bears strip ("Born under a bad sign") and an untitled 2 page Scare Bears strip (no title but based around Old Father Time and Medusa)

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

10). Star Bears - 6 pages, (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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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