UPDATED: Ivory Castle Arrow covers

I've looked before at Ivory Castle Arrow (here) with their covers by John Ryan (issues 1-9) and John M Burns (issues 10-11). The search for issue 1 and 4 continues. 

Previously I've added images of the club badge but for this update I've added in some images supplied by friend of the blog Keith Chapman concerning his work on 'Arrow. Enjoy!

UPDATE (20/03/26) now withe cover to issue 4 - which is currently on sale here c/o ace ebayer ewan_b

Got issues...2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Need issues...1, 4

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 1

cover not to hand - can you help? 

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 2

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 3

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 4

cover by John Ryan, interior art by Don Harley, Philip Mendoza and others 

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 5

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 6

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 7

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 8

Interior art is by Philip Mendoza, Reg Parlett and an artist who's signed his work - How they found Maroobi - but I don't recognise the signature

Here's a close-up of that signature...

Any ideas? If so, just let me know, cheers!

UPDATE: I have now been told that the artist is Leslie Caswell - who was a mentor of sorts to Mike Noble when Noble was starting out in comic strips. Norman Boyd has a number of posts about Caswell on his Visual Rants blog, including this one which has comments from two of his children: 

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 9

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 10

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 11

There was also a badge for the Ivory castle league - defend your ivory castles - it commands!

Friend of the blog Keith Chapman has shared these images of his work on issue 11. He also worked on other issues too.

UPDATED: Ivory Castle Arrow covers

I've looked before at Ivory Castle Arrow (here) with their covers by John Ryan (issues 1-9) and John M Burns (issues 10-11). The search for issue 1 and 4 continues. 

Previously I've added images of the club badge but for this update I've added in some images supplied by friend of the blog Keith Chapman concerning his work on 'Arrow. Enjoy!

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 1

cover not to hand - can you help? 

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 2

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 3

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 4

cover not to hand - can you help? 

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 5

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 6

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 7

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 8

Interior art is by Philip Mendoza, Reg Parlett and an artist who's signed his work - How they found Maroobi - but I don't recognise the signature

Here's a close-up of that signature...

Any ideas? If so, just let me know, cheers!

UPDATE: I have now been told that the artist is Leslie Caswell - who was a mentor of sorts to Mike Noble when Noble was starting out in comic strips. Norman Boyd has a number of posts about Caswell on his Visual Rants blog, including this one which has comments from two of his children: 

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 9

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 10

Ivory Castle Arrow, issue 11

There was also a badge for the Ivory castle league - defend your ivory castles - it commands!

Friend of the blog Keith Chapman has shared these images of his work on issue 11. He also worked on other issues too.

UPDATED: fun n' games comic - 1969/70

I've looked before (here) at the fun n' Games comic produced in association with supermarket chain Tesco. There was also this article by friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs.

Recently some further issues have come to my attention so I'm adding them to my covers gallery (below) for two reasons. 

Firstly, we now know that the title lasted to at least issue 51 - previously issue 38 was the highest known number.

We now have confirmation that the title lasted 52 issues (see images below), so a whole year.

Secondly, interestingly, we can now see that the name of the comic changed (from Tesco fun 'n games to fun 'n games) at issue 16.

Still plenty of gaps in the covers gallery - do let me know if you can help with any other covers.

My thanks to Adam Teitge for cover images for issues 11, 26, 51 & 52 and to Shaqui Le Vesconte for covers 7 & 40.

New covers are highlighted in red

I need 13, 28, 30, 36, 37, 40, 41, 46, 48, 49, 50 & 51

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 1, 25 October 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 2, 1 November 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 3, 8 November 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 4, 22 November 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 5, 29 November 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 6, 6 December 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 7, 13 December 1969

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 8, 20 December 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 9, 27 December 1969

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 10, 10 January 1970

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 11, 17 January 1970

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 12, 24 January 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 13, 31 January 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 14, 7 February 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

Tesco fun 'n games comic issue 15, 14 February 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 16, 21 February 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 17, 28 February 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 18, 7 March 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 19, 14 March 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 20, 21 March 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 21, 28 March 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 22, 4 April 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 23, 11 April 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 24, 18 April 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 25, 25 April 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 26, 2 May 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 27, 9 May 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 28, 16 May 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 29, 23 May 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 30,

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 31, 6 June 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 32, 13 June 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 33, 20 June 1977

fun 'n games comic issue 34, 27 June 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 35, 4 July 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 36, 11 July 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 37, 18 July 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 38, 25 July 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 39, 1 August 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 40, 15 August 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 41, 22 August 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 42, 29 August 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 43, 5 September 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 44, 12 September 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 45, 19 September 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 46, 26 September 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 47, 3 October 1970

cover signed by Leslie Caswell

fun 'n games comic issue 48, 10 October 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 49, 17 October 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 50, 24 October 1970

image not to hand - can you help?

fun 'n games comic issue 51, 31 October 1970

fun 'n games comic issue 52, 7 November 1970