5th British comicon - 1972

Here's an advert for the 1972 British comic convention...

and here's what the (small) convention booklet looked like...

The mercy giants & Brett Ewins

I'm indebted to friend of the blog Nevs Coleman for bringing this super obscure Brett Ewins comic, We think so loud,  to my attention. All these images were sourced from here - good luck adding this to your collection, it's super rare!

art by Brendan McCarthy

art by Philip Bond (left)

art by Shaky Kane (left)

Lawless 2023 - the autographs

 For Lawless 2023 I've looked at...

Artists here
Original art here
panels here
Steve Dillon art, part 1 here
Steve Dillon art, part 2 here
Steve Dillon art, part 3 here

Steve Dillon art, part 4 here 

Steve Dillon art, part 5 here

...and now the final part - the autographs!

so, here we go, from top to bottom, left to right I got the following autographs in my convention programme booklet in 2023...

John Wagner & Kev Crossley

Mick McMahon & Dan Cornwell

Laura Howell, D'Israeli, John Higgins, Ian Edgington [with the smile in the signature] & Patrick Goddard

David A Roach

Michael Carroll, Mike Dorey, Lew Stringer, Dave Gibbons, Ben Willsher

Chris Weston & Mike Collins

Frazer Irving, Glenn Fabry, Lee Carter

Colin Maxwell, Rob Williams, Henry Flint, Andy Diggle

100 years of Norman Thelwell - part 8

It closed in May (2023) but here are just some of the highlights from the recent '100 years of Norman Thelwell' exhibition at Mottisfont National Trust property.

First up, was the early years here
Then the war years (part 1) here and part 2 here
Then some Punch covers here

Then some Punch work here and here and here

Now, it's some ponies work...

Complete 'Wrath of the Gods' to be re-printed

Book Palace books have announced (here) that next Summer they'll be re-printing the complete Wrath of the Gods by Ron Embleton and John M Burns and Frank Bellamy's Ghost World in one huge volume.

All the Embleton and Burns double-page spreads will be printed as deluxe fold-outs in this monster full colour volume.

This sounds mouth-watering! A complete reprint of Wrath is regularly cited as being one of the reprints fans of vintage British comics say they'd most like to see and now, next Summer, they can!

Christmas has come early!

A page from Brett Million and the Ghost World strip by Frank Bellamy

UPDATED: Jet Morgan playsuit

Somewhere I have a photo of this actual playsuit - from maybe the Museum of childhood in Bethnal Green (now known as Young V&A) - I can't find it right now. Anyway, it's a welcome debut on the blog for Jet Morgan (star of Journey into Space) and his playsuit - images swiped from the catalogue below (recently for sale on ebay)...

Updated now with some more images of playsuit JM1 (as the catalogue refers to it as)

I'm sure there was a Dan Dare spacesuit which looked just like that but, frustratingly, I can't find an image. There was this Dan Dare spacesuit..

Anyway, good luck adding this playsuit to your Jet Morgan collection.

Update: Here’s a picture of the actual suit, via Aphadrome. the site notes indicate the fabric playsuit comprises a silver grey jacket with a red chest panel with Space Pilot graphic and includes trousers, red gloves and a fabric helmet with red trim and a vinyl visor. 

There was a generic box for a range of outfits, but the box indicates that this is a "Jet Morgan" space suit, though the example shown is marked Space Pilot.

Hulton Press adverts

I've looked here and here at some old trade press adverts for Hulton press publications (Eagle, Girl, Swift and Robin). I now, thanks again to friend of the blog Shaqui Le Vesconte a slightly miscellaneous selection of Hulton press adverts / info...

UPDATED: annual flyers

I used to love getting a flyer for the year's annuals (and then, to no avail, ticking off the ones I was interested in getting for the upcoming Christmas). Sadly I didn't keep any of them, however that's what they invented eBay for ! 

So, and with acknowledgment that there are plenty of gaps in my listing, here's a trip down memory lane for you...

All the new addition for this posts are highlighted in red - enjoy!

Amalgamated Press annuals for 1958 

Longacre annuals for 1961 

Longacre annuals for 1962

Fleetway annuals for 1963 

Eagle, Girl, Robin & Swift annuals for 1963 

Fleetway annuals for 1963

Fleetway super libraries

Fleetway annuals for 1967

Fleetway annuals for 1977 

Fleetway annuals for 1980

Interesting to see a 'draft' cover for the Tornado 1980 annual here...

Fleetway annuals for 1983

Fleetway annuals for 1984 

Fleetway annuals for 1985