Excalibur auction - part 1

Some images from the recent auction of original comic art from Peter Hansen's amazing collection. This art was sold on Saturday 9th May 2026 by Excalibur auctions.

Dan Dare art by Ian Kennedy (from the cover of the 1988 Eagle holiday special)

Ron Turner art

Robert Nixon art

David Lloyd art from V for Vendetta

John M Burns art

Brian Bolland art

Dudley D Watkins art

Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 10

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 10 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

The Cartoon Art Trust auctions

I've looked at the various publications associated with the Cartoon Art Trust / Cartoon Museum before. 

Newsletters can be found here;

An incomplete look at exhibition catalogues is here

And now for something different - the sales catalogues for two fundraising auctions that Bonhams held back in the 1990s. They may have been other auctions but, for now, these are the only two I'm aware of.

First up is this sale on Tuesday 26th September 1995

The second, "The Cartoon Art Trust Fin de Siecle Charity Auction", was held on Thursday 20th May 1999

This was a much smaller auction, just 40 lots this time. None of the lots have a estimate and I don't know the 'hammer' price on any of the lots. I'd have bid on...

lot 6 - three detailed Brian Bolland sketches for covers to Batman and The Invisibles

lot 21 - 2 pages of V for Vendetta art by David Lloyd

lot 30 - 2000AD cover by John Higgins - featuring Dredd blasting a robot 
lot 31 - Martha Washington title page ('Attack of the flesh-eating monsters') by Dave Gibbons

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

Hellfire fanzine #2+3 - David Roach

I've looked previously at the early work of David Roach and his comics fanzine Hellfire as follows...

Issue 1 here

Issue 3 here

issue 4 here

...and I just wanted to highlight some images from issue 2 (and 3) from ace ebay seller ewan_b

Hellfire issues 2 & 3

not sure if this is from issue 2 or 3 but I've included it as an early example of David's work

not sure if this is from issue 2 or 3 but I've included it as an early example of David's work

I think David drew the comic shop advert on the left of this image

update...here's a better cover image of issue #2

Shockwave - 1991

I've looked before at some DC reprint titles that appeared in the UK...

DC action! here

Zones here

and now the third and final title - Shockwave - published by London Editions magazines in 1991 for 4 issues. Here's my covers gallery...

Shockwave, issue 1, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines

Dave McKean cover art

Shockwave, issue 2, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines

cover art by Brian Bolland

Shockwave, issue 3, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines

cover art by Joe Brozowski (AKA JJ Birch)

Shockwave, issue 4, 1991, 95p, London Editions magazines

cover art by David Lloyd

the cancellation of the title must have been quite sudden as the cover of this (final) issue carries a banner for part 1 of an interview with Alan Grant.