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6 April 2020

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 71-80, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 

Issues 1-10 is here
Issues 11-20 is here
Issues 21-30 is here
Issues 31-40 is here
Issues 51-60 is here
Issues 61-70 is here
Next up is issues 71-80...

Warhammer monthly - issue 71, cover artist Ian Peterson 


Warhammer monthly - issue 72, cover artist Clint Langley

Warhammer monthly - issue 73, cover artist Dylan Teague

Warhammer monthly - issue 74, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 75, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 76, cover artist Patrick Goddard

Warhammer monthly - issue 77, cover artist Patrick Goddard

Warhammer monthly - issue 78, cover artist Kev Hopgood

Warhammer monthly - issue 79, cover artist Adrian Smith

Warhammer monthly - issue 80, cover artist Scott Johnson

5 April 2020

Eureka comic #1 - Musuems year 1989

I recently missed out on the chance to acquire this comic on ebay so I can't tell you much more about it apart from these are the images I swiped from the listing - if you spot an artist you know just let me know :)










4 April 2020

UPDATED - Captain Planet and the planeteers

I've now acquired some copies of Captain Planet so in red I've added details of writers, artists etc

Prompted by a question on a facebook group together I've been inspired to look into the 'Captain Planet and the planeteers' comic...I don't have any copies myself so I've scoured t'internet for the images below...Marvel US put out a 12-issue series but for Marvel UK I've only got up to issue 4 so far - were there more? Let me know! 

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 1, cover dated 12th October 1991
cover by Mario Capaldi and John Burns
The single story is called 'A hero for Earth' and is labelled as 'Stan Lee presents' so this sounds like a US reprint to me
Writers = Barry Dutter & Jim Salicrup
Pencils = José Delbo
Inker = Mike DeCarlo
Letterer = Jim Massara
Colour = Brad Vancata 


Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 2, cover dated 26th October 1991
Mario Capaldi on cover art duties
Story 1 = A hero for Earth - no credits but assume it's as per issue 1 (above) 
Story 2 = Toxic Terror!; story by Ian Rimmer, art by Mario Capaldi, lettering by Cie, colouring by Louise Cassell


Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 3, cover dated 9th November 1991
cover not to hand

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 4, cover dated 23rd November 1991
Mario Capaldi and John Burns on cover art duties
Story 1 = 'Smog gets in your eyes' [continued from issue 3], script by Barry Dutter and Jim Salicrup; art by Jose Delbo & Stephen Baskerville; lettering by Jim Massara; colouring by Sarra Mossoff.

Story 2 = 'Carbon copy' [continued from issue 3], script by Ian Rimmer; art by Mario Capaldi and Bambos Georgiou; lettering by Cie; colouring by Helen Nally

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, holiday special
Hmmm, where did they get that idea for a cover from?
Published August 1992
The contents are a single story 'If you can't nuke em...join 'em'...script by Barry Dutter; pencils by Pat Broderick; inks by Bruce Patterson & Ralp Cabrera; letters by John Costanza; colours by Sarra Mossoff; story editor Rob Takar

And Tim Perkins worked on the annual (and he also worked on a colouring book and the colouring & activity book)



I posted the above in a Facebook group and John Michael Burns (renowned colourist and nephew of artist John M Burns) was kind enought to make a comment on the post...


3 April 2020

Warhammer monthly comic - issue 61-70, cover artists guide

I never read Warhammer monthly back in the day and have only started picking it up in recent years - it's packed full of well-known (2000AD) creators and plenty of other not so well-known names. 

Anyway, a covers gallery is a good a way as any to act as an introduction to a comic so over the next few weeks I'll show you what the issues all look like. 


Issues 1-10 is here
Issues 11-20 is here
Issues 21-30 is here
Issues 31-40 is here
Issue 51-60 is here
Next up is issues 61-70...

Warhammer monthly - issue 61, cover artist Karl Richardson

Warhammer monthly - issue 62, cover artist Mark Harrison

Warhammer monthly - issue 63, cover artist Patrick Goddard

Warhammer monthly - issue 64, cover artist Clint Langley

Warhammer monthly - issue 65, cover artist Simon Davis

Warhammer monthly - issue 66, cover artist John Gravato

 Warhammer monthly - issue 67, cover artist The Sharp Brothers

Warhammer monthly - issue 68, cover artist Adrian Smith

Warhammer monthly - issue 69, cover artist Phil Sibbering

Warhammer monthly - issue 70, cover artist Geoff Taylor

2 April 2020

UPDATED: Commando covers by Keith Burns

I first came across Keith Burns art when he illustrated the Titan comics Johnny Red series, since then he's just started illustrating Commando covers and the covers are fantastic. Here's the covers he's done so far...

Commando 5209 - American avenger


Commando 5215 - a matter of honour

Commando 5229 - shadow in the storm!

Commando 5241 - steel inferno

Commando 5251 - Radar raiders

Commando 5259 - Braddock


Commando 5267 - Braddock demons

Commando 5289 - the Wombat and the Tiger

Commando 5297 - fog of war

Commando 5299 - Sladen's promise

Commando 5307 - Stealing Stukas

Commando 5313 - Ironhide

1 April 2020

Ninja action comic

Ok so here's a comic I know nothing about - I've pinched the image from Dale Jackson on the excellent facebook group - 'The mighty world of British comics'. Interestingly the space where the bar code should be (bottom tight) is blank so I wonder if this is some sort of 'test' issue??

I just wanted to put it out there to see if anyone else recalls it (or, even better, has any issues for sale!)

Lovely cover by Colin MacNeil




Googling 'ninja action comic' tends to bring up a lot of refences to a certain quartet of crime-fighting turtles <sigh> but I have found one reference on a chat group ...
The text is quite hard to read but it says...
Hello
My grandfather owned a drugstore for a few decades and it had a comic rack I was allowed to select from (after I'd done some chores :)

I've been searching (unsuccessfully) for a comic/magazine that the drugstore carried. I had about six issues- I have no idea where they disappeared to.

Here's what I remember-
Published in the late '80s
The series was oversized (not typical comic size)
It had a title something lik 'Ninja Action' or 'Kung Fu Action', or thereabouts.
The series was black and white pages

As I recall, the first issue had a single story. As I look back I'd say it was 'manga style' although at the time I don't know of the genre. The story followed a ninja as he raided a temple and fought four demon spirits. The end resulted in a female personification of Yin being released. I think he encountered a Kappa vampire on the way to the temple...

Subsequent issues featured serilaized stories, and each had multiple tales. For example, one storyline was about a group of siblings whose clan had been wiped out and it crossed a few issues. Issues after number 1 were by different artists and weren't necessarily 'manga' in art style.

So, overall then, any help gratefully received.