COMIC MILESTONES

[steelclaw]

That's a great panal must seek out that copy of oink.

[Peter Gray]

the jolly brolly is in the panel grants you wishes..
also Tiger Tim..
and those crazy Chip's comic Tramps..

good one Lew..
Bear Alley should do a book on Tom Thug Oink and Buster comic years..

[steelclaw]

The Obvious one is Cursitor Doom,
There's Mowser as well from Lion, and when I read it when he was in Lion & Thunder.
Penny Dreadful.

[klakadak-ploobadoof]

And the Cloak, of course (from POW and later Smash)! Also Grimly Feendish and Eagle Eye (from Wham and Smash). And Captain Hurricane from Valiant. I think I can also see Korky the Cat.

[Lew Stringer]

The Obvious one is Cursitor Doom,

Nope. That's Grimly Feendish.

There's Mowser as well from Lion, and when I read it when he was in Lion & Thunder.
Penny Dreadful.

I think you mean Bad Penny?

Thanks for digging that old page out klakadak. I'd forgotten I'd done that one!

Lew

[Lew Stringer]

Got the week off and have been tidying up my bedroom now have loads of those 39p nice big and square Tesco bags full of comics everywhere, came across some Milestone issues. The Chips final issue cover is in the Comics UK gallery but has been scanned in B&W so here it is in the pink:
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Interesting finds Steve. Did Chips actually announce it was the final issue or did it just advertise its replacement, TV Fun?

Lew

[STARBOY]

Nice panel I spotted (I think) Tiger Tim, Wearly Willie and Tierd Tim (or summit like that), Frankie Stein, Robot Archie, Bad Penny, The Cloak, the mother from the Nutts (?),Grimly Fiendish, Eagle Eye Junior Spy (or the man from B.U.N.G.L.E), Captain Hurricane, Dan Dare, Korky (?), Mowser, Gus Gorilla - not sure of the rest who was the Superhero type character with the lightening bolt ???

[klakadak-ploobadoof]

There is also the Steel Claw lying on the ground beside Tom Thug.

[steelclaw]

The Obvious one is Cursitor Doom,

Nope. That's Grimly Feendish.

There's Mowser as well from Lion, and when I read it when he was in Lion & Thunder.
Penny Dreadful.

I think you mean Bad Penny?

Thanks for digging that old page out klakadak. I'd forgotten I'd done that one!

Lew

Oh dear, I had better go and read some comics and look a bit closer.

I was looking at the Bear Alley books when I thought it was Cursitor Doom.

[Lew Stringer]

Nice panel I spotted (I think) Tiger Tim, Wearly Willie and Tierd Tim (or summit like that), Frankie Stein, Robot Archie, Bad Penny, The Cloak, the mother from the Nutts (?),Grimly Fiendish, Eagle Eye Junior Spy (or the man from B.U.N.G.L.E), Captain Hurricane, Dan Dare, Korky (?), Mowser, Gus Gorilla - not sure of the rest who was the Superhero type character with the lightening bolt ???

Just quickly as I'm in the middle of doing the Beano Annual 2011 but....

The superhero is Dash Decent, a humour strip Kev O'Neill did for 2000AD. That's not Korky (no DC Thomson characters there as it's an IPC comic), it's a Roy Wilson cat character. Forget the name now. The woman and her son are Marmy and His Ma (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ ... ge1big.jpg).

Yes that's Eagle Eye. The Man From BUNGLE was similar but wore a bowler and glasses.

Lew

[Digifiend]

Just looked up Roy Wilson in an attempt to identify that cat character, and found that Lambiek's down...
http://lambiek.net/artists/w/wilson_roy.htm

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Couldn't find anything elsewhere specific to a cat character. No Wikipedia article about Roy either.

[Lew Stringer]

Just looked up Roy Wilson in an attempt to identify that cat character, and found that Lambiek's down...

Thinking about it, I don't think the cat has a name. It's one of the animals Roy Wilson used to populate the corners of his comics with. Here's the cat in an original unfinished Marmy and His Ma strip (1930s approx):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v725/ ... ge2big.jpg

[Digifiend]

Typical humour of the era that, Beano and Dandy's early issues had some similar storylines! I can guess what would've happened next. Thanks for that.

Lambiek's working now by the way.

[Phoenix]

Thinking about it, I don't think the cat has a name.

Could it not be Smarty from TV Fun?

[Captain Storm]

Damn,I sure miss comics! After salivating over what any reader could get his/her mitts on in any newsagents back then,makes me sad. At least the Bumper Books are a step in the right direction. Maybe a slew of Summer Specials could be unleashed to bookstores and educational bookstores(you know,the ones where you buy school books etc) to whet the appetites of potential younger readers in this modern age.Demand if sufficient could entice publishers to go all out for a weekly title.

The Cap.