Powerman #31 - cover by Brian Bolland

I've looked at Powerman before (here) and I've tried to gather together all the images I can find of this rare Nigerian comic by Brian Bolland & Dave Gibbons. 

Brian recently posted up just the covers of his Powerman comics so I'm going to collate just the covers here (and hopefully at some point I'll be add further detail to the post, but for now it's just the cover)

Previously we've looked at...

a). issue 5 is here

b). issue 6 is here

c). issue 7 is here

d). issue 8 is here

e). issue 9 is here

f). issue 10 is here

g). issue 11 is here

h). issue 12 is here

i). issue 13 is here

j). issue 16 is here

k). issue 18 is here

l). issue 19 is here [cover only]

m). issue 20 is here

n). issue 21 is here [cover only]

o). issue 23 is here [cover only]
p). issue 26 is here [cover only]
q). issue 27 is here [cover only]
r). issue 29 is here [cover only]

s). issue 30 is here [cover only]

t). issue 31 is here [cover only]

Early Dan Cornwell fanzines strips to collect

Following on from my post a couple of weeks ago (here) about my 'prog slog' dedicated to Dan 'Rok of the Reds' Cornwell's contributions to 2000AD and the Judge Dredd Megazine I thought a follow-up post was necessary.

So today I'm just going to highlight Dan's work outside of Rok / 2000AD / Judge Dredd megazine and instead focus on his early fanzine work instead....

The Price - FutureQuake 21, written by Derek Hamill (June 2012)

still available to buy here

A Soldiers Guilt - FutureQuake 23, written by Ollie Masters (July 2013)

Perks of the Job - FutureQuake 23, written by Robert Lefebvre (July 2013)

still available to buy here

Strontium Dogs - Wirehead Rex - The Day the Diddly Died - Dogbreath 28, written by Dirk van Dom (March 2013)

sadly out of print

Strontium Dogs - Wirehead Rex - The Idolmaker Subterfuge - Dogbreath 29, written by Dirk van Dom (October 2014)

sadly out of print

Cover to 'Zarjaz' fanzine issue 30

available to buy here

As ever, let me know if there's anything I've missed - thanks for reading

The 4th Robin birthday book

I looked (here) at the third Robin birthday book and speculated that the book was sent to those members of the Robin club who had reached their 3rd birthday.

I now also have a copy of the 4th Robin birthday book and birthday postcard...as they came from the same child who received the 3rd birthday book I know that this postcard was sent a year later and presumably ties in with her next (i.e. 4th) birthday.

The book is very similar to the 3rd birthday book (soft cover, slightly larger than a paperback and is 12 pages long) and I can't believe that it would have lasted very long in the hands of the average 4 year old!

Inside it's a mixture of poems, puzzles, (very) short stories and a couple of comic strips - in this case Andy Pandy and The story of Woppit. All of which is perhaps indicative of a book for a four year-old.

As a nod to friend of the blog Steve Hollands I include here the Woppit story as he wrote all about Woppit here on Bear Alley

The third Robin birthday book

A while ago (here) I looked at spin-off merchandise associated with Robin comic from the 1950s. One of the items I covered was this postcard...

...with a nice 'Swift' advert in the top left corner...at the time I thought this was just something that you got from the Robin club...

...however a recent addition of another copy of the postcard (reverse shown below - note the Robin advert in the top left corner - Swift hadn't been launched at this point in 1954)...made me think that the card would accompany the Robin birthday book that had been produced for the year... 

...thus all the postcards like the one above should be date stamped 1954. Why do I now think this? Well the postcard came with a copy of the 3rd Robin birthday book and another postcard (to the same child) - which was stamped for 1955.

But onto the Robin birthday book itself...

...it's soft cover, slightly larger than a paperback and is 12 pages long. My initial thought was that this is the 3rd book they've produced (rather than being a book for a 3 year old to have on their birthday) but this theory is ruined by the fact that Robin was only launched in 1953 and the postcard was sent in 1954 so no parent coud have paid for 3 years of membership of the Robin club by 1954 so therefore I think that the book WAS sent to a child for their 3rd birthday. As a result there probably isn't a first or second Robin birthday book and maybe the sixth Robin birthday book is the last one (as they'd probably try and get them on to Swift or Girl after that).

Indeed the message (inside) from the editor (Marcus Morris) says "...Here is the third ROBIN Birthday Book, which comes to you as a present from ROBIN Club. I hope that you have a lovely birthday, with lots of other presents"  

Inside it's a mixture of poems, puzzles, (very) short stories and a couple of comic strips - in this case Andy Pandy and Richard Lion. All of which is perhaps indicative of a book for a three year-old. 

This is a book which would not last long in the hands of the average 3 year-old, it's so delicate. This perhaps explains why so few seem to have survived. 

The real Ghostbusters - collected comics

I'm not a collector of Marvel UK's 'The Real Ghostbusters' comic but I've seen that the collected editions seem to be quite expensive so I thought I'd see if I could identify how many there are.

Ideally I'd love to be able to tell you what stories they reprinted (and from which issues) and which issue of the comic the cover has come from but, sadly, I can't. 

Instead if you can help me fill the gaps in the covers gallery below (#8 and #10) and confirm if the series went beyond #11 that would be very helpful!

Enjoy!  

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 1

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 2

from 1989

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 3

from July 1990

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 4

1991 Summer special

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 5

from February 1992

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 6

from May 1992; the cover had been originally used on issue #90

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 7

from December 1992

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 8
image not to hand


The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 9

Holiday special 1993

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 10

image not to hand

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 11

produced in 1994

and there was this too

Cartoon Museum news - newsletters, part 6

Continuing my look back at the newsletters of the Cartoon Museum here's the 6th and final part of my collection of newsletters (#48 to #52)...from Summer 2009 to Summer 2012. The Summer 2012 issue was the last to be produced.