UPDATED - Captain Planet and the planeteers

Update (23/03/26) - I've completed the cover gallery via the addition of the cover for issue #3

I've now acquired some copies of Captain Planet so in red I've added details of writers, artists etc

Prompted by a question on a facebook group together I've been inspired to look into the 'Captain Planet and the planeteers' comic...I don't have any copies myself so I've scoured t'internet for the images below...Marvel US put out a 12-issue series but for Marvel UK I've only got up to issue 4 so far - were there more? Let me know! 

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 1, cover dated 12th October 1991

cover by Mario Capaldi and John Burns

The single story is called 'A hero for Earth' and is labelled as 'Stan Lee presents' so this sounds like a US reprint to me

Writers = Barry Dutter & Jim Salicrup

Pencils = José Delbo

Inker = Mike DeCarlo

Letterer = Jim Massara

Colour = Brad Vancata 

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 2, cover dated 26th October 1991

Mario Capaldi on cover art duties

Story 1 = A hero for Earth - no credits but assume it's as per issue 1 (above) 

Story 2 = Toxic Terror!; story by Ian Rimmer, art by Mario Capaldi, lettering by Cie, colouring by Louise Cassell

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 3, cover dated 9th November 1991

currently for sale here on ebay

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 4, cover dated 23rd November 1991

Mario Capaldi and John Burns on cover art duties

Story 1 = 'Smog gets in your eyes' [continued from issue 3], script by Barry Dutter and Jim Salicrup; art by Jose Delbo & Stephen Baskerville; lettering by Jim Massara; colouring by Sarra Mossoff.

Story 2 = 'Carbon copy' [continued from issue 3], script by Ian Rimmer; art by Mario Capaldi and Bambos Georgiou; lettering by Cie; colouring by Helen Nally

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, holiday special

Hmmm, where did they get that idea for a cover from?

Published August 1992

The contents are a single story 'If you can't nuke em...join 'em'...script by Barry Dutter; pencils by Pat Broderick; inks by Bruce Patterson & Ralp Cabrera; letters by John Costanza; colours by Sarra Mossoff; story editor Rob Takar

And Tim Perkins worked on the annual (and he also worked on a colouring book and the colouring & activity book)

I posted the above in a Facebook group and John Michael Burns (renowned colourist and nephew of artist John M Burns) was kind enought to make a comment on the post...

UPDATED: 'The wisdom of gnomes'

One of the first comics I ever blogged about (here, here and here) was a title called 'Wanted' - it was published by 'Celebrity' - a publisher about whom I knew very little (then or now!). It would turn out that Celebrity's most successful title would be their Count Duckula comic (which I covered here), but they had at least one other title published. This was The wisdom of gnomes, an (according to wikipedia) animated series made in Spain and was a spin-off from the series 'David the gnome'.

UPDATED now with the cover to issue #7, #8, #15 and the discovery of a special

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 1, 28th September 1989 


The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 2, 25th October 1989 

Cover art looks like it is by Mario Capaldi.
24 pages long
Inside you get a single story - Journey to Scotland - which runs to 16 pages - with the rest being a mix of games, puzzles and adverts.
Interior art is unsigned but looks like it could be Capaldi (albeit drawing in quite a simplified style).

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 3, 8th November 1989


Now the question is - were there any more issues? Surely, no comic series stops after 3 issues? Sadly, I can't find any more but if you know differently do let me know.

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 4, 22nd November 1989

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 5, 6th December 1989

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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 6, 20th December 1989

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 7, 3rd January 1990

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 8, 17th January 1990

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 9, 31st January 1990

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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 10, 14th February 1990

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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 11, 28th February 1990

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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 12, 14th March 1990

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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 13, 28th March 1990

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UPDATE: I've now found the following references in Denis Gifford's old ACE newsletters...

Newsletter #115 (volume 13, issue 3), June 1990, Wisdom goes monthly from the April 1990 issue

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 14, April 1990

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 15, May 1990

The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 16, June 1990

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The wisdom of the gnomes, Celebrity, issue 17, July 1990

Newsletter #117 (volume 13, issue 5), September 1990, the July 1990 issue of Wisdom is the final issue - issue #17 - and here it is c/o comics fan, and friend of the blog, Michael Carroll

So that's quite a few more issues than I was expecting and means there's plenty more issues to track down.

There were also (at least) 2 annuals produced - both look like they are sporting covers by Mario Capaldi. 

The 1991 annual

Celebrity Publications postal address was Unit 1, H.Q. 3, Hook Rise South, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7NH

Editor is Floron Florenzo
Assistant to editor is Ben Lakofski
Editorial Director is Etta Saunder

And then there was this too - David the gnome, TV special #2, 99p

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: Blue Moon - 1999

Here's a title (from 1999) well worth looking out for - having said that it seems so only come up for sale rarely so you may well be waiting a while for issues to appear.

Anyway, the concept was a kids comic edited by Tim Quinn & Gillian Baverstock (Enid Blyton's eldest daughter) and looking at updating/continuing classic fairy tales. A dozen issues in total, here's all the details I have about all the various (very good!) creators involved...

Details of issue 11 are now to hand and have been updated below and this now completes my covers & contributors guide for Blue Moon.

Blue Moon, issue 1, 30th March-12th April 1999

contributors include Phil Gascoine, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Steve Parkhouse, Sputnik, Joy Allen, Maureen & Gordon Gray, John Lupton

Blue Moon, issue 2, 13th April-26th April 1999

contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, George Sears, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Mario Capaldi, Joy Allen, John Lupton, Maureen & Gordon Gray

Blue Moon, issue 3, 27th April-10th May 1999

contributors include Mario Capaldi, Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, George Sears, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Mike Hadley, John Lupton, Maureen & Gordon Gray, Charlie Adlard

Blue Moon, issue 4, 11th May-24th May 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Steve Parkhouse, Sputnik, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, John Lupton, Bart Rivers

Blue Moon, issue 5, 25th May-7th June 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Steve Parkhouse, Mike Hadley, Sputnik, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, John Lupton, Malcolm Whittall

Blue Moon, issue 6, 5th July 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 7, 2nd August 1999

Cover art by Charlie Adlard

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Charlie Adlard, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Mike Hadley, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Malcolm Whittall

Blue Moon, issue 8, 30th August 1999

Cover art by Francis PhillippsContributors include Phil Gascoine, Charlie Adlard, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Malcolm Whittall

Blue Moon, issue 9, 27th September 1999

Cover art by Francis Phillipps

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Charlie Adlard, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 10, 25th October 1999

Cover art by Charlie Adlard

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, Sputnik, John Lupton, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 11, 23rd November 1999

Two slightly different free gifts available with issue #11

Cover art by Steve Parkhouse

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, John Burns, Steve Parkhouse, Sputnik, John Lupton, George Sears, Charlie Adlard, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 12 21st December 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Tim Quinn, Mario Capaldi, Francis Phillipps, Malcolm Whittall, Steve Parkhouse, John Burns, John Lupton, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Karl Dixon

UPDATED: Blue Moon - 1999

Here's a title (from 1999) well worth looking out for - having said that it seems so only come up for sale rarely so you may well be waiting a while for issues to appear.

Anyway, the concept was a kids comic edited by Tim Quinn & Gillian Baverstock (Enid Blyton's eldest daughter) and looking at updating/continuing classic fairy tales. A dozen issues in total, here's all the details I have about all the various (very good!) creators involved...

Details of issue 11 are now to hand and have been updated below

Blue Moon, issue 1, 30th March-12th April 1999

contributors include Phil Gascoine, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Steve Parkhouse, Sputnik, Joy Allen, Maureen & Gordon Gray, John Lupton

Blue Moon, issue 2, 13th April-26th April 1999

contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, George Sears, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Mario Capaldi, Joy Allen, John Lupton, Maureen & Gordon Gray

Blue Moon, issue 3, 27th April-10th May 1999

contributors include Mario Capaldi, Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, George Sears, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Mike Hadley, John Lupton, Maureen & Gordon Gray, Charlie Adlard

Blue Moon, issue 4, 11th May-24th May 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Steve Parkhouse, Sputnik, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, John Lupton, Bart Rivers

Blue Moon, issue 5, 25th May-7th June 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Steve Parkhouse, Mike Hadley, Sputnik, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, John Lupton, Malcolm Whittall

Blue Moon, issue 6, 5th July 1999

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 7, 2nd August 1999

Cover art by Charlie Adlard

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Charlie Adlard, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Mike Hadley, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Malcolm Whittall

Blue Moon, issue 8, 30th August 1999

Cover art by Francis PhillippsContributors include Phil Gascoine, Charlie Adlard, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Malcolm Whittall

Blue Moon, issue 9, 27th September 1999

Cover art by Francis Phillipps

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Charlie Adlard, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, John Lupton, George Sears, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 10, 25th October 1999

Cover art by Charlie Adlard

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Sputnik, Steve Parkhouse, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, Bambos Georgiou, Sputnik, John Lupton, George Sears, Mario Capaldi, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 11, 23rd November 1999

Two slightly different free gifts available with issue #11

Cover art by Steve Parkhouse

Contributors include Phil Gascoine, Art Wetherell, Francis Phillipps, Mario Capaldi, John Burns, Steve Parkhouse, Sputnik, John Lupton, George Sears, Charlie Adlard, Malcolm Whittall, 

Blue Moon, issue 12 21st December 1999

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