UPDATED: - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

UPDATE (24/09/26); now with covers for issues 8 & 9 added + a piece of interior art from issue #6 (thanks to friend of the blog Andrew Wolf - check out his Miracleman blog on Tumblr here)

UPDATE (21/07/26); now with covers for issues 1 & 3 added

UPDATE (01/07/26); with thanks to Comics Tony & Ewan Brownlow for their feedback on the original post. Updated with covers for issues 4, 6 & 7.

Fusion fanzine, #1, 30p

cover by Alex Breadner

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #3, 30p

front cover art by Mark King

back cover art by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #4, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #6, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

interior art (from issue 6) of Black Alice by Grant Morrison and Tony O'Donnell

Fusion fanzine, #7, 40p

cover by Tony O'Donnell

Fusion fanzine, #8, 40p

cover by Tim Pearce

Fusion fanzine, #9, 40p

cover by Christopher Walsh

Alan Moore's (not the) World Cup comic

As part of the build up to the World Cup final tonight there's only one comic worth thinking about...a comic about not the world cup...I thought we'd have a look at a Barrie Mitchell illustrated, Alan Moore (yes, really) scripted tale of not the (1982) world cup humour comic from Marvel UK.

Cover by John Higgins

All mentions of Alan Moore on the blog can be found here

UPDATED: - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

UPDATE (21/07/26); now with covers for issues 1 & 3 added (thanks to friend of the blog Andrew Wolf - check out his Miracleman blog on Tumblr here)

UPDATE (01/07/26); with thanks to Comics Tony & Ewan Brownlow for their feedback on the original post. Updated with covers for issues 4, 6 & 7.

Fusion fanzine, #1, 30p

cover by Alex Breadner

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #3, 30p

front cover art by Mark King

back cover art by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #4, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #6, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #7, 40p

cover by Tony O'Donnell

UPDATED: - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

UPDATE (01/07/26); with thanks to Comics Tony & Ewan Brownlow for their feedback on the original post. Updated with covers for issues 4, 6 & 7.

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #4, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

cover by Alan Davis

Fusion fanzine, #6, 30p

cover by Grant Morrison

Fusion fanzine, #7, 40p

cover by Tony O'Donnell

Chaos City comics - Mystery Inc, 1963

I've looked before (here to be precise) about some rare Martha Washington goes to war variants that were produced by Chaos City comics (in St Albans). Turns out these weren't the only comics they produced...

There was their AIDS awareness comic - here

They also produced some of their own variants of the Mystery Inc, 1963 comic

According to an article on page 15 of the November 1993 issue of Comics International was limited to a print run of...

a). 500 Gold editions (priced at £7.95)

b). 150 Platinum editions (priced at a staggering £29.95)

c). from the test run 20 incredibly rare Bronze editions

You can find copies of the gold edition quite easily on ebay (here for instance) 

You can see the platinum copy here

but no sign of the Bronze editions yet.

Alan Davis - Fusion covers

I'm grateful to Andrew Wolf for bringing these fanzine to my attention. He did so over on the "Fans of Alan Davis" Facebook page (here). I've not seen other covers for Fusion so if you can help me out with other images that'd be great. Andrew says 9 issues all with a print run of less than 200 copies.

Fusion fanzine, #2, 30p

Fusion fanzine, #5, 40p

Steve Dillon exhibition (Stevenage) - part 5

Some images from the recent Steve Dillon exhibition that was held in Stevenage...

Part 1 was here

Part 2 was here

Part 3 was here

Part 4 was here

UPDATED: Dark they were and golden eyed - adverts

I've long wanted to have a post for all those great vintage adverts for long-gone comic shops, so this is the start of that. 

Got any other adverts for Dark they were and golden eyed? Feel free to share 'em! 3 posters below, 3 different addresses.

art by Jim (James) Cawthorn

art by Jim (James) Cawthorn

art by Bryan Talbot

and now, thanks to friend of the blog Mac Mac Anorak has supplied me with a number of other adverts...

art by Alan Moore, Cyclops issue 3, page 8, Sept. 1970

Art by Brian Bolland, Starburst #1, 1978

art by David Edward Britton, 20/11/69

Bryan Talbot, 1979

Bryan Talbot, 1979

art by Dave Gibbons

art by Dave Gibbons

art by Garry Leach, Starburst #5, 1978

Trev Wright - White Dwarf #2 back cover, Aug/Sept 1977

unknown artist & publication

and now even more adverts - again all images care of Mac Mac Anorak

and now a final

art by Dave Gibbons

art by David Lloyd