Battle covers collection

[Lew Stringer]

Nice unusual item coming out next month; Egmont are publishing a set of postcards featuring artwork from Battle comic. Mostly their powerfully-designed covers:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Postcar ... +postcards

[Tammyfan]

Looks nice!

[starscape]

How annoying it is that IPC came away with most of the conics, not Fleetway. We could have had collected Adam Eterno and Janus Stark by now.

[colcool007]

I am surprised that they do not feature any of the Major Eazy covers in the Look Inside feature as I think the one where he is in cross hairs must be iconic.

[Lew Stringer]

How annoying it is that IPC came away with most of the conics, not Fleetway. We could have had collected Adam Eterno and Janus Stark by now.

Yes, as Fleetway (or rather Egmont these days) own the characters created after January 1970 I'm not quite sure how they own Scorcher and Cor!! but not Thunder. How did IPC get that one?

[big bad bri]

Nice unusual item coming out next month; Egmont are publishing a set of postcards featuring artwork from Battle comic. Mostly their powerfully-designed covers:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Battle-Postcar ... +postcards

Also a similar set of girls comics covers coming out as well.

[Shiner]

Going back to the mention of Adam Eterno, isn't he in the Egmont catalogue rather than IPC? The division between the two was set as June 1969. New characters after that date plus an agreed list of others (e.g. Roy of the Rovers) sit with Egmont, so being a 1970s character there's still some hope that he might yet pop up in one of their Classic ventures.

These cards sound great and I hope that all the sets sell well. I'd love to see an Action set follow on from these plus one for all the great humour strips from Whizzer & Chips, Whoopee etc.

[starscape]

Adam is IPC as I tried to license the character but ended up going with my reprint of the Leopard from Lime Street from Egmont. I think its comics that were begun before the 70s and were no longer in print at the split were considered IPC. Hence Buster was Egmont due to being in print but not Valiant.

[Lew Stringer]

Going back to the mention of Adam Eterno, isn't he in the Egmont catalogue rather than IPC? The division between the two was set as June 1969. New characters after that date plus an agreed list of others (e.g. Roy of the Rovers) sit with Egmont, so being a 1970s character there's still some hope that he might yet pop up in one of their Classic ventures.

These cards sound great and I hope that all the sets sell well. I'd love to see an Action set follow on from these plus one for all the great humour strips from Whizzer & Chips, Whoopee etc.

The cards are out now by the way, and look great.

Regarding Adam Eterno, it appears that because Lion is owned by IPC, and Thunder merged into it, they also own the Thunder characters. Which is strange considering Egmont own Scorcher, which merged into IPC's Tiger. Sounds like the division of characters between IPC and Egmont is quite complicated.