Top Slammer (aka. Pro Slammer)

[TwoHeadedBoy]

In 1995, when all the kids were into pogs, naturally a magazine would be made about them too. As far as I know, Top Slammer (as it was called) only made it to two issues, and even the second issue was renamed as Pro Slammer.

In both of these issues, there's a double-paged comic strip about Slammin' Sam. Here's the first page of the first comic:



Looks a tiny bit like Mr. Stringer's work, but with no credits in the magazine I'm not sure. Thoughts?

[swirlythingy]

Regardless of who drew it, I'd definitely say that kid bears more than a passing resemblance to Danny of the Bash Street Kids!

[Lew Stringer]

Looks a tiny bit like Mr. Stringer's work, but with no credits in the magazine I'm not sure. Thoughts?

Not mine, but going by the lettering style and other touches I'd say it was the work of Graham Hey (editor/contributor to Spit! and C'Mon Ref).

[Jon]

Do you own these magazines, TwoHeadedBoy? Any chance of a front cover scan?

[Digifiend]

Regardless of who drew it, I'd definitely say that kid bears more than a passing resemblance to Danny of the Bash Street Kids!

Yeah, and Swotty Cedric looks like Erbert, although he's actually a Cuthbert Cringeworthy expy in terms of characterisation.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Do you own these magazines, TwoHeadedBoy? Any chance of a front cover scan?

Yep, I've got both of them - I'll do a cover scan either tomorrow morning or tomorrow evening.

Thinking about those Spit! comics, they DO seem similar to these - I'll look at them side-by-side when I get back to my place. Never heard of C'Mon Ref, mind - might have to look into those.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Here are the covers for both of the issues...

Issue 1 (Top Slammer):


Issue 2 (Pro Slammer):

[Jon]

Pricey at £1.99! Looks really interesting. Certainly never seen one of them before.

[felneymike]

That takes me back, I had the first issue as a kid. It was amazing how much mileage they got out of such a simple subject. Mind you I remember the interview with the "world champion" being rather long, and a lot of photos, to pad pages out.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Pricey at £1.99! Looks really interesting. Certainly never seen one of them before.

Well if there's anything specific you'd like to see from the covers, let me know and I'll scan them in