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by bigd
27 Jan 2007, 12:45
Forum: Comic Titles & Groups
Topic: Brilliant!
Replies: 6
Views: 4987

Brilliant!

Like you Cap, I was also pleasantly suprised to learn on the internet that Scotland wasn't just a guinee pig for the Poll Tax :x but we'd also been fortunate to have Vulcan for 6 months before our UK cousins :o and had been able to enjoy all the early introduction tales of some of the very best comi...
by bigd
25 Jan 2007, 21:04
Forum: Comic Titles & Groups
Topic: Brilliant!
Replies: 6
Views: 4987

Brilliant!

Vulcan was a big favourite of mine and being fortunate to live in Scotland I was able to begin reading it from the very first issue in March 1975 (rather than the National editions that started much later that same year),particularly as it allowed me to enjoy the Trigan Empire story from it's origin...
by bigd
24 Jan 2007, 17:31
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Please help identify mid-70s strip
Replies: 4
Views: 1387

Please help identify mid-70s strip

Thanks for the mighty fine effort Cap - much appreciated !

Hope I haven't sent you on a wild goose chase and await any news.

Cheers !
by bigd
24 Jan 2007, 15:33
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Please help identify mid-70s strip
Replies: 4
Views: 1387

Please help identify mid-70s strip

Thanks for the reply Captain - I tried googling "School for Spies" but with no luck and the Comics UK page-by-page data base doesn't seem to include this title. Clearly this strip left a big impression on my younger self but not many others. Once again - I'd be grateful if anyone can expand on the C...
by bigd
21 Jan 2007, 21:45
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Spalt Rats and Dysfunctional Families
Replies: 11
Views: 2534

Spalt Rats and Dysfunctional Families

I recently bought a copy of the Marvel UK issue of Titans#1 (1975) off e-bay, so I could once again own the free colour poster still stapled inside the centre pages, which opened up into a superb John Buscema drawing of loads of Marvel Universe characters. :D Back in 1975 I swapped with my pal to ge...
by bigd
15 Jan 2007, 20:13
Forum: General comics discussion
Topic: Please help identify mid-70s strip
Replies: 4
Views: 1387

Please help identify mid-70s strip

First post to this excellent site :D - I'm hoping some of you experts can help me identify a comic strip from about 1974 (?), which involved a load of boys being kidnapped and held in a type of POW camp, in order to extort ransom payments from their millionaire parents - I seem to remember that the ...