Heroes! The British invasion of American comics - part 7

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 7 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

Catawiki original comic art auction - ends Thur 3 Feb 2022

This auction closes tonight, good luck if you're bidding!

An absolutely  bumper week for British comic art highlights c/o of the latest Catawiki auction of (British) comic art so let's crack on...

From the pen of Don Lawrence comes this page from the Trigan Empire story 'The Imposter' (1971)

This page by Edward Kearon showing 'Robot Archie and the mole men' (1964)

An 'Andy Capp' strip by Reg Smythe

A Bill Lacey page from 'Eagles over the Western front'

A Jesus Blasco 'Steel Claw' page from Valiant 24th May 1967

This Bill Mevin page 'The Herbs' from Pippin (issue 314)

This Glenn Fabry 'Preacher' sketch

This Reg Parlett page from 'Billy Bunter' (1971)

This Sydney Jordan 'Jeff Hawke' strip from 1973

This Enrique Badia Romero piece of 'Modesty Blaise' art

Catawiki original comic art auction - ends Thur 3 Feb 2022

An absolutely  bumper week for British comic art highlights c/o of the latest Catawiki auction of (British) comic art so let's crack on...

From the pen of Don Lawrence comes this page from the Trigan Empire story 'The Imposter' (1971)

This page by Edward Kearon showing 'Robot Archie and the mole men' (1964)

An 'Andy Capp' strip by Reg Smythe

A Bill Lacey page from 'Eagles over the Western front'

A Jesus Blasco 'Steel Claw' page from Valiant 24th May 1967

This Bill Mevin page 'The Herbs' from Pippin (issue 314)

This Glenn Fabry 'Preacher' sketch

This Reg Parlett page from 'Billy Bunter' (1971)

This Sydney Jordan 'Jeff Hawke' strip from 1973

This Enrique Badia Romero piece of 'Modesty Blaise' art

Catawiki auction - closes Thur 8th July 2021

The current Catawiki auction of original comic art is now open for bidding and, as ever, I've been through it looking for British comic art highlights. So, without further ado, let's see what's up for sale this week...

This picture of Modesty Blaise by Romero

This newspaper strip of Jeff Hawke by Sydney Jordan

This cover to Teddy Bear comic (7th December 1963) by William Francis Phillipps

This Andy Capp strip by Reg Smythe

This page of Leo the friendly Lion - football hero from Playhour - art by Virginio Livraghi

Because you should always have some Jesus Blasco art to look at

 Some Robot Archie by Edward Kearon, from Lion (1965)

Two stunning Ron Embleton pages from The wonderful world of Disney (1975/6)

This art by Nadir Quinto from Playhour (1958/59)

This unpublished page by José Ortiz from Once upon a time

Spider & Steel Claw reprints announced!

Dropping through people's letterboxes from today is the Smash! special...

It's US comic sized (rather than, say, over-sized like holiday specials used to be) and looks to have a lot of great strips, however my eye was mainly caught by this advert...

...it's the advert people have been waiting a long time for - finally some Steel Claw and Spider reprint volumes from The Treasury of British comics - roll on February 2021!

Archive Adventures - part 1

Before there was Treasury of British comics line, acquiring reprints of old British comics was hard work (and even with Treasury there is SO much material that will never be reprinted) so this is where Archive Adventures came in.

First up, I'm not sure who published this (or when) or how many books there in this series so I thought I'd try and start trying to list them all, there's a lot of books out there so bear with me...

First up we have Archive Adventures #1-5. All issues are A4 sized, black and white art and had a print run of 30 copies so this is a very hard set to collect.

In some occasions I have spare copies for sale on ebay, I'll put a link wherever relevant

Archive Adventures #1
NOT reprinted from the well known comic called Ranger but instead an earlier comic called Ranger. 24 pages. Print run of 30.

Archive Adventures #2
At by Ron Embleton, from Mickey Mouse weekly, 40 pages, print run of 30

Archive Adventures #3
Art by Robert Forrest, taken from Top Spot magazine, 28 pages, 30 copies. My spare copy for sale here

Archive Adventures #4
28 pages, 30 copies, 

Archive Adventures #5
From Top Spot 1958/59, 30 copies, 28 pages, art by CL Doughty and Jesus 'the Steel Claw' Blasco