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That story was printed on nice white paper, making it look even better than it does here.

David

A look at Steve Holland's blog at http://bearalley.blogspot.com/ should give you more ideas for old comics Christmas gifts than you'll know what to do with.

David

Starboy

The Russ Heath ad was the "132 ROMAN SOLDIERS $1.98" (Blue & Yellow)" one. I have very fond memories of that ad

David Simpson

Rusty staples in old comics

You can see a nice little Spider biography at http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/s/spider.htm

David

If you go to http://bearalley.blogspot.com/, you can read Steve Holland's introduction to the Karl books.

David Simpson

Er, that should have been "replica", not "repica". Sorry about that.

David

(Note to self: proof read, then submit, not vice versa)

I bought Scottish newspaper The Sunday Post yesterday for the repica of the first issue of The Beano they gave away. The odd bit of lettering was a bit small for comfortable reading, which made me wonder if it was smaller than the real thing. Size of the replica is 28 by 21 cms (11 x 8.25 inches for...

Re: "Kelly's Eye also appeared in 2000AD calling himself the Universal Soldier (IIRC)." Tim Kelly appeared as a character in the Universal Soldier strip, but wasn't the title character. He was then spun off into his own strip, which I think was drawn by Brett Ewins. In it, the Eye was permanently gr...

Thanks all for your feedback. I thought Phantom Patrol had the feel of Eagle or Boys World to it -- I never thought it might have been in Swift, though. I've been reading a lot of Jeff Hawke recently,which Willie Patterson often wrote, and the use of alien relics is the kind of thing he'd often do i...

In early 2000AD specials and annuals there was a reprinted series called Phantom patrol, about a landing craft full of British servicemen who were lost in time. In over thirty years, i haven't been able to find out anything about it. If anyone can tell me where it first appeared, I'd be grateful; na...

Hi

To the best of my knowledge, there was just one issue of Mindbenders.

David Simpson