12 July 2017

MACH1 reprint volume - cover reveal

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Rebellion have revealed the covers for M.A.C.H. 1 - The John Probe Mission Files.... It's due out in March 2018 Starting out as a ...

King Solomon's mines - lost Eagle magazine strip

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Over on Comic Art Fans ( here ) there's an opportunity to spend £5k on a comic strip that was never published. The strip? King Solomon...
11 July 2017

Modesty Blaise - the earliest ever drawing

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Over on Comic Art Fans ( here ) to be precise, the earlist known example of Modesty Blaise art is up for sale and what's better is that...
10 July 2017

Fisrt ever Commando collectors fair/swapmeet

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Saturday 16th September should be a date in the diary fro all Commando collectors as Andy Yates is holding the first ever collectors fair de...
9 July 2017

Misty - volume 2 coming soon

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A cover for the 16th November (paperback, £14.99) release of the 2nd volume of Misty reprints has just emerged... Again, this is taken f...
8 July 2017

Faceache - by Ken Reid

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Faceache - the first hundred scrounges (available to pre-order on Amazon here ) now has a cover image... This is taken from the back of ...
7 July 2017

is an Oor Wullie annual worth this much?

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The very earliest Oor Wullie annuals are particularly scarce, especially in high grade but even I was surprised to see one on offer for £25,...
6 July 2017

Bunny vs. Monkey

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The insane battles between a bunny, a monkey and all sorts of other woodland cuties (albeit often armed to the teeth with ridiculous, eye-po...
5 July 2017

Judge Dredd partwork to be extended

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Rebellion have today announce that the Judge Dredd partwork that Hachette have been publishing for the last 2 years will be extended by anot...
4 July 2017

Spaceship Away part 42

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...is  now out The latest issue of Des Shaw's ace magazine related to all aspects of the original Dan Dare series has just been publi...
3 July 2017

Summer workshops at the Cartoon Museum

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Have you got a young comics creator in your house If so,  Beano and Phoenix artists will be at the Cartoon Museum in Bloomsbury ( here ) t...
2 July 2017

High Command

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High Command by Frank Bellamy features reprints from the original Eagle magazine (the real life, back-page, stories of Winston Churchill an...
1 July 2017

A Denis Gifford selection (2)

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Following on from my post last week ( here ) about 2 of the smaller books he wrote, here are 3 more pocket-sized volumes that he contributed...
30 June 2017

uncensored Scream art for sale

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Someone (not me) is selling off an original piece of censored piece art from Scream #3 (07/04/54) here . The first scan, below, shows the ...
29 June 2017

Paul Temple Library - issues 1-4

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In 1964 digest publisher Micron produced 10 issues of the 'Paul Temple library' reprinting newspapers strips from the Evening News ....
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28 June 2017

What was the first British trade paperback?

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So, here's a question I don't know the answer to but I thought it might be interesting to turn it over to the hive mind and see if w...
27 June 2017

the Mekon is for sale!

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News from Peter Hampson's website (maintained in honour of his artist father, Frank Hampson) is that a number of Mekon sculptures create...
26 June 2017

When comic retailers go into publishing...

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So, if you run a comic shop it's a pretty safe bet that you love comics, that you see a load of comics fans every day and you (perhaps i...
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25 June 2017

Girl novels - part 2

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This second 'set' of Girl novels are all much longer volumes than these  but they are all very similar in design (red spine with th...
24 June 2017

Girl novels - part 1

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Once Hulton Press had launched Eagle , and then Girl , they wasted no time cashing in on their new creations. A vast amount of merchandise (...
23 June 2017

A Denis Gifford selection (1)

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Denis Gifford wrote many (large) reference books on the history of British comics, and while more modern day comics were not his forte, our ...
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