Loner - a collector's guide - part 2

Continuing my guide to all things Loner-related, here's the first 5 covers that Loner graced for new Eagle...

Loner - a collector's guide - part 1

In anticipation of the Treasury of British comics reprint of Loner (coming this September it says here) - here's the start of my two part guide to collecting all things Loner.

Issue 1 (of 7) contains 29 pages reprinting episodes 1-6 from Wildcat

Issue 2 contains 30 pages of reprints from episodes 7-12 of the Wildcat stories.

Issue 3 has 30 pages again - this time reprints from new Eagle 29/04/89 - 20/05/89 [4 episodes] plus 2 one-off stories [01/07/89 and 29/07/89]

Issue 4 - 30 pages again, 15 by David Pugh and 15 by Eric Bradbury (who took over when David Pugh switched to drawing Dan Dare). Three one-off stories (19/08/89, 30/09/89 & 14/10/89) and then five episodes of a continuing story from new Eagle (21/10/89 - 18/11/89). 

Issue 5 - 28 pages of Eric Bradbury art from new Eagle 25/11/89 - 27/01/90 (so that's 10 issues)

Issue 6 - 9 issues of new Eagle reprints (03/02/90 - 31/03/90), by Eric Bradbury 

Issue 7 - 3 issues of Eric Bradbury new Eagle reprints (07/04/90 - 21/04/90) plus a 5 page strip by David Pugh that I can't find where it was originally printed. There's also another Wildcat reprint and 2 x 2000ad reprints (art by Chris Weston; art by Ron Smith) 

So all in all there's 104 pages of David Pugh art followed by 84 pages of Eric Bradbury art - maybe that's how Treasury will split Loner into 2 volumes - who knows?

Last minute christmas gift ideas?

Still looking for that last minute Christmas present for the Roy of the Rovers fan in your life? Then look no further than the collection of ten (!) Roy of the Rovers mugs that are now available here from the Terrace Store

The unseen Ron Embleton - catalgoue now available

Messum's art gallery have now released (here) the catalogue to accompany their extraordinary upcoming exhibition, The unseen Ron Embleton (9th January - 1st February). 

The 36 page catalogue (priced at £15) includes a number of Ron's previously unseen abstract artworks, see a selection below, as well as 5 page article, by Peter Richardson, on his more famous illustration artwork.

The catalogue is available to download as a pdf if you prefer not to purchase it. 

Still no sign of the prices for these pieces :)

Dan Dair monthly 1962-3

Seeing a copy of the French Dan Dare reprint, Dan Dair, on Saturday sent me scurrying off to ebay to see if I could track down all the individual issues, here's what I've found so far...pretty good covers (mainly) based on specific action-packed frames from the first four Dan Dare stories...

There also appear to have been 3 'albums' - each album being a good way to re-package unsold individual issues together. Album 1 (cover image untraced so far) contains issue 1-4, album 2 is issues 5-8 and album 3 is issues 9-12

The best of Roy of the Rovers monthly - part 4

Here we go again with some more of the best of Roy of the Rovers monthly... 

Issue 16 - SO MUCH Mighty Mouse (58 pages!) and a bit of Roy (6 pages), whatever

Issue 17 - and it's a Nipper special

Issue 18 - is graced by a John Gillatt cover and pages and pages of John's art inside with Billy's Boots front and centre 

Issue 19 - total Hot Shot Hamish - no Roy (or anyone else at all) - just 64 pages of the big mon  

Issue 20 - the Safest hands in soccer is the centre of attention this month...  

Terry Bave's Whacko comic

I was saddened the other day to read (here) of the death of British humour comics stalwart Terry Bave. As a lad I read his work in (my brother's copy of) Whizzer and Chips but I probably became most interested in his work when I discovered some unique try-out strips he'd drawn for a comic that never made it to the newsstand, Whacko.

I tell the full story here so I won't go into it all again but I will share some of Terry's unique characters with you here...

You should see that Terry has signed each of the final panels.

Ron Embleton's Illustrators special - more details released

The end of the year is shaping up to be a good time for all fans of Ron Embleton's art. 

As well as the chance, in January, to seeing a very different side of Ron Embleton's art being displayed at Messum's gallery in London there's also the Illustrators Special that I first mentioned here. The Book Palace have now put up some of the pages from the special and it's shaping up to look great (and not a little racy!) 

Priced at £25 it's due in mid-December and is available to pre-order here