UPDATED: Marvel UK's Lady Lovely Locks

Updated with a cover image for issue #4...

A while ago I looked at Lady Lovely Locks comic here (no really, come back!) mainly because I was attracted by the Mario Capaldi covers. I'm still not clear how long this lasted (although it was at least 13 issues; a German edition ran for 14). I do know that issue 1 doesn't have the Nahomi strip in it that issue 10 does.

The photos below are mainly swiped from eBay - so that's not my hand in shot :)

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 1


Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 2

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 3

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 4


Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 5
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Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 6

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 7

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 8

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Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 9

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 10

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 11

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 12

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Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 13

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The British Library catalogue has 'Lady Lovely Locks' lasting until issue 13...

 

...and friend of the blog Michael Carroll has let me know that I'm pretty sure that Lady Lovely Locks did indeed end with #13: It was absorbed into Care Bears and first appeared in issue #152, cover-dated 8 Oct 1988 - a week after what would have been the cover-date of LLL #13.

UPDATED: Marvel UK's Lady Lovely Locks

Updated with a cover image for issue #3...

A while ago I looked at Lady Lovely Locks comic here (no really, come back!) mainly because I was attracted by the Mario Capaldi covers. I'm still not clear how long this lasted (although it was at least 13 issues) - I do know that issue 1 doesn't have the Nahomi strip in it that issue 10 does.

The photos below are mainly swiped from ebay - so that's not my hand in shot :)

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 1



Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 2

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 3

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 4
cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 5
cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 6

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 7

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 8

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Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 9

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 10

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 11

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 12

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 13

cover image not to hand - can you help?

The British Library catalogue has 'Lady Lovely Locks' lasting until issue 13...

 

UPDATED: Marvel UK's Lady Lovely Locks

A while ago I looked at Lady Lovely Locks comic here (no really, come back!) mainly because I was attracted by the Mario Capaldi covers. I'm still not clear how long this lasted (although it was at least 13 issues) - I do know that issue 1 doesn't have the Nahomi strip in it that issue 10 does.

The photos below are mainly swiped from ebay - so that's not my hand in shot :)

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 1



Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 2

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 3
cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 4
cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 5
cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 6

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 7

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 8

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 9

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 10

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 11

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 12

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Lady Lovely Locks, Marvel UK, issue 13

cover image not to hand - can you help?

The British Library catalogue has 'Lady Lovely Locks' lasting until issue 13...

 

Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails

In a break from my normal look at boys comics here's a glimpse of a comic that I came across a couple of times recently, having never seen it previously. Michael Carroll covered it on his blog (here) when thinking about the Marvel UK '70s and '80s leftovers (as he described it).

I could see that the cover was likely to have been drawn by Mario Capaldi (although it's uncredited) so I thought I'd acquire a single issue as a curiosity. Alongside the usual colouring in sort of things and games for kids there was 3 pages of this strip...

ok - so I wasn't expecting that, what's this strip? Looks like some sort of bandes dessinées - but that's quite a large choice, any chance of a signature?

Ah-ha! There's the signature, in nearly the penultimate panel there's something that looks like 'Crisse'. OK so pop over to lambiek.net (here), look in C and find Didier Crisse - could it be him? What strip might it be?

Hmmm, he seems to have illustrated a strip about a Japanese Princess in 'Tintin' magazine 1980-87 with Bom (writer presumably). So a quick bit of googling and we suddenly have a strip called 'Nahomi'.


So there we have it - a very obscure reprint of a European comic strip in the UK.

Here's a foreign edition of Lady Lovely Locks issue 1 - again, cover looks like Mario Capaldi's work.

And the Marvel UK #1

...and #2