Fizz

[SID]

Found this comic for sale in eBay.

Ring any bells?

[Old Freddy]

Before my time, this. But I do remember wanting to make a comic called "Fizz" a few years back!

[Tin Can Tommy]

There are two up on ebay at the moment

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-FIZZ-Comi ... 20bef92bd1

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1st-issue-fiz ... 20bf25608d

different covers and im assuming issues but both lots claim it to be the first issue.
The comics were unnumbered and undated. But ebay says early 90s. The look similiar to Acne comic another comic which I never heard of which i saw on ebay recently.

Read more about Acne in this thread here

They look a bit like Oink clones or maybe Viz clones trying to aim at a younger audience.

[Digifiend]

Cover says "The comic for teenagers" but it really looks quite similar to covers from DCT and Fleetway's comic annuals, which were (and still are, in Beano and Dandy's case) aimed at a younger age group.

[Tin Can Tommy]

I doubt they would put someone throwing up on the cover of a Beano/Dandy Annual.

[swirlythingy]

They look a bit like Oink clones or maybe Viz clones trying to aim at a younger audience.

I just realised the phonetic similarity of the word 'Fizz' to 'Viz'. And now I think about it, the logo looks a bit similar, too...

[Digifiend]

I doubt they would put someone throwing up on the cover of a Beano/Dandy Annual.

It's not impossible, such scenes have appeared inside the comics. This Fizz seems to be a halfway house between those and Viz, but it was clearly aimed at a non-existent market.

[stevezodiac]

From the heading I thought it was a post about Fizz from 1947. Only one issue was published which I have somewhere. I'd scan it if I could lay my hands on it.

[Digifiend]

Not surprising, reused names were pretty common.

[Tin Can Tommy]

I doubt they new of 1947's fizz when they made this comic.

I have found a similiar (well similiar names and from around the same time) comic on comicsuk's gallery called Fizog whilst seeing if Fizz was on the comicsuk Gallery.
Surprisingly there is a lot of info (more than none) on this comic on the web even though it only had three issues. http://britishcomics.com/Fizog/index.htm

[felneymike]

That cover looks quite well-drawn and printed compared to most of the other Viz ripoffs... which isn't saying much, mind you.

There was a court case around that time involving one of the Vizalikes trying to "pass itself off" as another one (they didn't look even slightly similar and the case was thrown out, mind you). Perhaps the makers thought the name Fizz was a bit too close to the bone and cancelled it?

[colcool007]

I doubt they new of 1947's fizz when they made this comic.

I have found a similiar (well similiar names and from around the same time) comic on comicsuk's gallery called Fizog whilst seeing if Fizz was on the comicsuk Gallery.
Surprisingly there is a lot of info (more than none) on this comic on the web even though it only had three issues. http://britishcomics.com/Fizog/index.htm

That link led me to look at this little gem by Denis McLoughlin

[SID]

Well, won and got the first issue. Haven't read it yet.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Not sure where my copy of Fizz has gone, it was there before I moved house, but wasn't afterwards (Hmm...).

Anyway, from what I remember, it came out around 1995-ish, got it from Kwik Save on the way home from school as a "Friday treat". Loved it at the time, but a few years later I realised a LOT of it was reprinted from stuff found in Acne comic, just with less swearing - even a few things from Smut!

Bazza (the world's worst footballer), Craterface, Billy Bunt... All these and more appeared in at LEAST Fizz and Acne. And I've seen Bazza in at least one other comic, too!

[stevezodiac]

Finally located my 1947 Fizz and here it is. It has strips by Denis Gifford, Bob Monkhouse and Wally Robertson. It has colour on every page.