'Celebrity Comics': Count Duckula

[Shaqui]

Does anyone have any info on publishers 'Celebrity Comics' who did the 'Count Duckula' comic in 1989? Also, anyone know how many issues 'Count Duckula' ran for? I have the first nine issues...

[NP]

I was part of a very small team who had a seven-issue run of our own comic, 1989/90 with Celebrity Group. The editor was ex-Marvel Etta Saunders and it was run out of a farmhouse in, I think, Kent. The only other thing I remember about them was their chairman had a Bentley. I think they lasted about 10 months so your Count Duckula collection is most likely complete.

[NP]

??

[babington]

Does anyone happen to know what type of chewy bar was free with the first issue of Count Duckula in 1989?

[Digifiend]

Shaqui's collection isn't complete. Tried looking up the chew bar and found issue 14. The only issue 1 I found was a Marvel comic from the US.

[babington]

Here is a link to an ebay listing for the first UK issue - you can see by the text that a 'chew' was attached to the front cover. But what kind?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/First-Issue-N ... SwnH1WZUGx

[Digifiend]

That link answers your question, for there's something called Duckula Suckula advertised inside.

[Phoenix]

That link answers your question, for there's something called Duckula Suckula advertised inside.

I can't imagine that babington hadn't spotted that, Digi. I think the problem is that the term Duckula Suckula doesn't give any information about its flavour.

[babington]

yes, I saw that, but I saw a copy of this comic with pineapple 'chewits' attached to the cover - yet it looked like someone had just stuck a pack of chews on the cover and it wasn't the original gift - hence my question