Fury comic cover gallery (8)

Issue 21

Issue 22

Issue 23

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Issue 18

Issue 19 (front cover)

Issue 19 (rear cover) - were you in the club???

Issue 20 - what a cover! what a cover! The colour, the dynamism, just fantastic

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Issue 15

Issue 16

Issue 17

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Issue 12

Issue 13

Issue 14 (front cover)

Issue 14 (rear cover) advert

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Issue 9

Issue 10

Issue 11

That's the best run of covers so far I reckon, very dynamic.

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Issue 5

Issue 6

Issue 7

 

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Issue 3

Issue 4

Issue 5

Fury comic cover gallery (1)

To get us in the mood for the 2000ad 40th anniversary bash, and to celebrate me completing my Fury comic collection, I thought I'd champion the work of its foremost cover artist - Carlos Ezquerra. So, over the next few days I'll be running a cover gallery of this title plus any other interesting bits I find in its pages.
Fury was published for 25 issues by Marvel UK and Carlos drew covers 2-25, Dave Gibbons drew the cover for issue 1. The titular hero was Sergeant Fury (and his howling commandos). Art and story credits for the US reprint material that made up the contents of this title are thin on the ground, so it's just the covers really I'll be highlighting. Fury lasted 25 issues (16/03/77 - 31/08/77) before it merged into Mighty word of Marvel.
Issue #1

Issue 2

 rear cover art by Frank Langford

Cartoonists Club of Great Britian (4)

If all of this has whetted your appetite for all things CCGB then they are still very much around and can be contacted here
http://ccgb.org.uk/wordpress/

I'll leave you with some scans of the history of the (drinking) escapades of the club which are recounted in this 150 page A5 volume from 1996. These stories go all the way back to the beginning of the club and highlights for instance, trips to Billy Butlin's holiday camps and much besides. Much fun.

At one point the Cartoon Museum in London has multiple copies of this for sale but they don't seem to have them any more. Good luck tracking it down!

Cartoonists Club of Great Britain (3)

Final selection...

Dave Follows - who I know for his work with Ernie (from the new Eagle), top left panel

Dicky Howett - best known to me at least for his work on Dr Who

Cartoonists Club of Great Britain (2)

and now with more highlights from the CCGB members handbook...

Les Lilley has worked on an extensive list of comics here...not sure how well-known his contribution are

Brian Walker has also been a busy guy, again his name isn't well-known to me

And Ken Wilkins who worked for DC Thomson

Cartoonists Club of Great Britain (1)

I recently acquired this...

 Which is from these people

Who are led by these people

And it's basically a directory (100+pages long) of all the members of the Cartoonist Club of Great Britain (CCGB). So you details of hundreds of cartoonists and some of them have submitted large drawings - as far as I'm aware these are unique pieces so I thought I'd share the most interesting ones here over the next few days, first up is Denis Gifford

The CCGB are still going and can be found here
http://ccgb.org.uk/wordpress/

ABC film review - December 1952

As it says on the cover "...a very happy Christmas from four associated British lovelies...Valerie Cotton, Veronica Hurst, Susan Stephen and Yvonne Furneaux"

This month we have Riders of the Range (again) from Eagle magazine

 Robbie and the tame stag, from Girl magazine (story by George Beardmore and art by Roy Newby)

and on the back cover Mario Lanza

Bugsy Malone

I'm a big fan of Alan Parker's Bugsy Malone movie so I was delighted to find this graphic adaptation at a local charity shop the other day. It's from 1976 and would have cost you 95p for 64 pages of film adaptation. If you've never seen the film the prepare yourself for child actors and splurge guns not machine guns!
In Prohibition-era New York City, Fat Sam runs one of the most popular speakeasies in town - but his rival Dandy Dan is trying to shut him down. It's up to the baby-faced Bugsy Malone to save the day...Packed with thrills and spills (and more than a few custard pies and splurge), this is a mobster story with a twist - the stars are kids!

 The famous splurge guns...

 The book was reprinted in 2013

ABC film review - November 1952

Here's Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson posing on the front cover of the November 1952 issue of 'ABC film review' - if you look closely you'll see that they both appear to be wearing the same shade of lipstick!

The Luck of the Legions strip is written by the usual eagle creative team of Geoffrey Bond and Martin Aitchison (who only died very recently http://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/in-memoriam-2-martin-aitchison.html)

A strip from Girl - script by Valerie Hastings, art by Bernard Greenbaum. Valerie Hastings wrote two Girl 'spin off' novels - Wendy & Jinx and the Dutch stamp mystery; and Wendy & Jinx and the missing scientist

And here's Richard Attenborough on the back page in a shot from "Father's doing fine" - a rollicking technicolour comedy no less!