Comics UK

Thanks Phil, I now have all 13 boards!! I'll scan them and post them up at some point.

Does anyone have a copy of the Lion Epic spectacular special? I'd like to find out how many pages were in Passingham's Tobruk adaption.

Thanks for the gems posted here, I was completely unaware of June Mendoza's work in English comics and her portrait career. Amazing. A fellow historian mentioned to me a few months back that Yaroslav Horak is still with us, in a home in Sydney now. Here's another page of Jack Waugh. I know an old ...

wow these are great I hadn't seen jimmy Smart before, is that from Man or Man Jnr? Did not know that about June Mendoza either, do you have any examples of her Girl work?

I've been meaning to blog some of Waugh's illustrations, will try and get them up this week, picked up some nice work by Belbin and Waugh at my local market last weekend. I suspect Belbin involved with the layout as some of his illustrations are tightly tied together with the title and layout of text.

gah! i just lost a massive post, i'll try again tomorrow.

matrix,

Girl of Limberlost commenced the week after heiress of Tangurau finished, Oct 6, 1962 and ran for 14 episodes until first issue of 1963, jan 5th.

First and last instalments below.

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/774249360.jpg?1369447198

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront ...

thanks phil, i've wondered if the idea behind setting stories in Oz and NZ was to add some appeal to all the kids reading English comics down under.

I've posted a few more pages of Heiress of Tangurau on my blog, i'll try getting the rest scanned this week.

I'd be very interested if you can ...

hi phil and matrix, i have the whole story of heiress to tangarau, i'll post it on my blog this week. I have a 3-4 year run of princess if anyone is after samples of other strips from that era.

Does anyone know who wrote Heiress to Tangurau? I picked up a pile of Princess' today and I was impressed with the detail concerning New Zealand in the story. it gave me the impression they may have been there.

Matrix, some of the comics have edge foxing and creasing, some folded pages but overall most were in pretty decent condition. Probably been sitting in someone's attic for sixty years. I bought them on ebay, they had been bought at local auction house recently and given as a gift to someone who didn ...

http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/742581656.jpg?key=800600&Expires=1362896240&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIYVGSUJFNRFZBBTA&Signature=CmIO0Brn8jI4KXVXC4BbLSU8C2fnhL2TWw~0zjMkdYNHIXI8N2f7WrRj6sPJ-b1b2BTOhYYjJIN9Fy1r8GzpSnGRwK6uiRZfJkHfUU6P2K1X968kFbxp9-9Nm7paQhhO77Uh9HHi-sH0wpjyIxYHdtDaUCwu9V ...

I seem to recall my father getting quite heated because an episode of the Australian soap 'The Sullivans' (anyone remember that?) featured a character reading the Eagle - but at the time the series was set in 1948! I distinctly recall him asking if British comics were sometimes started on other ...

I've posted a little bit on Oliver Passingham here: Tobruk Original Art Boards http://bit.ly/SaX1D8

arrived today, only had a glance through but looks like a cracker read, look forward to the next one!