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.

Lawless comic oddities

For anyone who was in the bar in Lawless on Saturday evening you might have seen me leafing through some of the more obscure comics in my collection. I'd brought them along primarily to show Michael Carroll but there were a few o us who ended up looking through thenm.

For anyone who missed out, here's what you could have won!

Whacko comic - here

Eureka comic - here 

Ivory castle arrow - here

Signal comic - here

Salmon wise with Alaska Sam - here 

My horse - here

Road Maniax - here

Zodiac comic - here

Phantom 2040 - here

Max overload - here

Greenbug - here

Christmas with the Buds - here

IPC news - complete with details of the launch of Tornado

and there may have been more but it was a good start. I'll bring along different oddities next year I promise!

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.