Classics from the comics do it yourself...

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Re: Classics from the comics do it yourself...

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What would you request spy.....yours nosely Peter :)

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WELL, PETER....obviously early 'I SPY' [this is what I requested they kept repeating on the rare times [twice in 12 years!] they did reprint it.......one-page 'PUSS and BOOTS', ' GENERAL JIM [late 60s 'BEEZER'], the extremely rare 'PLUM DUFF' story that ran in early 70s 'TOPPER', ------'the PURPLE CLOUD' by CHARLIE GRIGG------TELL YOU WHAT...I' ll start a list.....


1: davey law 60s 'DENNIS';

2-3: 'GENERAL JIM' by ''DANNY'S TRANNY' artist;

4: 'JINX' by KEN REID.

5:'JIFFY and the GLYPHS' by GEORGE MARTIN;

6: 'DESERT ISLAND DICK/JULIUS CHEESER' by TOM BANNISTER/GEORGE MARTIN;

7; 'ISLAND of MONSTERS' --'DANDY, late 60s [PADDY BRENNAN?]

8: SINGLE-PAGE 'PUSS n BOOTS' : JOHN GEERING [69-73 PERIOD]

9-10: 'KINGS of the CASTLE' from KEN HARRISON;

11: 'GRANDPA' by KEN REID;

12; 'DESPERATE DAN' [continuing serial;] DUDLEY D. WATKINS;

13: 'the 3 BEARS' LEO BAXENDALE;

14-15: THE 'WHIZZERS from OZZ': 60S-EARLY 70S 'TOPPER': PADDY BRENNAN;

16: ' HUNGRY HORACE/KEYHOLE KATE': early versions from ALLAN MORLEY;

17; 'PETER PIPER': earlier [1969] VIC NEILL artwork;

18: 'the BANANA BUNCH' ; --LATE 60S BILL HILL;

19-20: ''HOVERTANK'; ------1969 'beano'.

21: ''LORD SNOOTY': early-70s ROBERT NIXON,

22: 'WYATT TWERP and BUGSY': early 70s 'SPARKY', [ron spencer]

23: the PURPLE CLOUD' ; CHARLIE GRIGG [1969? 'dandy'].

24-25: the 'IRON EATERS' [60S 'BEEZER'];

26: 'BLACK BUN' ----early 70s 'BEEZER' [BILL HILL]

27; 'MINNIE the MINX': LEO BAXENDALE.

28-9: ' RUDOLF, THE REDCOAT MOUNTIE': 1970 'SPARKY'[colour: repeated 76-77 b/w in same comic...]


-------yes, MIKE LACEY really DID work for DCT!!!!


30: 'biffo the BEAR'; late 50s D.D. WATKINS.

31-32: 'the 'JELLYMEN' 1960s 'BEEZER'

33: WILLY NILLY' CHARLIE GRIGG...... 'early 70s 'TOPPER'.

34; 'BILLY WHIZZ'; mid-60s MALCOLM JUDGE.

35; 'THOR THUMB': 1972 'TOPPER' [MURRAY BALL]

36; 'BANANA BUNCH' 1960 LEO BAXENDALE [yes! I like both versions!]

37-38; 'BRASSNECK' late 60S BILL HOLROYD.

40: 'the 'MOONSTERS' [cover version on front of 'SPARKY'] BILL RITCHIE.

41; ' KORKY the CAT' CHARLIE GRIGG.


42; 'BERYL the PERIL' DAVEY LAW version.

43-44 'I SPY' LES BARTON ['69 SERIAL VERSION];

45; 'I FLY/SAM'S SNAKE' -----by 'WILLIE GETAWAY artist.....sorry, I forget his name!!

46; 'SNIP and SNAP' ------'SPARKY', around '72: I think this artist's surname was GREEN......


47-48; 'ANGEL FACE'........KEN REID.

49; 'COLONEL BLINK' by TOM BANNISTER.

50-51; 'bash street kids': from 1967 [with 'cut-out ' puppets!]------------D.S.

52: 'PUNCH and JIMMY' ------MID-60S 'BEANO'...sorry, can't recall this artist's name.


53; 'SUNNY JIM'...........late 60s 'DANDY' [GEORGE MARTIN, inbetween working as PRODUCER at ABBEY ROAD studios];

54: 'SIMPLE SPYMAN' BILL RITCHIE [1975 'cracker']

56: ''BULLY BEEF and CHIPS' -------JIMMY HUGHES.......not a pretty style, but very funny and popular.

57-58: 'SPUNKY and his SPIDER' -------BILL HOLROYD.........late 1960s 'DANDY'.

59; 'SIR LAUGHALOT'.......early 60s 'TOPPER'.

60: 'PUP PARADE'.......GORDON BELL.

61-62;; 'MINNIE the MINX'; -----JIM PETRIE [WITH 'harry presto' from HUGH MORREN put in where 'TEASER TIME' used to be!]

63; 'BABY CROCKETT'; BILL RITCHIE.


64; P.C. BIG EARS...............JOHN GEERING, 'DANDY', around 1971.

65-66; the 'Q-BIKES'------mid-60s 'BEANO'.

67; 'WEE BEN NEVIS' early 70s 'BEANO' [VIC NEILL].

68; -----------'LITTLE PLUM' --------RON SPENCER.


---I thought 'CLASSICS' had 64 pages, but the current version definately has 68!

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Re: Classics from the comics do it yourself...

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1 is the cover, 2 is inside

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