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Sad news indeed.

Here's an excellent tribute to Barrie by John Freeman over at downthetubes.net.

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-au ... tomlinson/

Al

You're welcome Steven, and thanks Jim

Another excellent resource is
http://www.tonystrading.co.uk/galleries ... -comic.htm

Al

Have you checked the Annuals section on this very website

https://www.comicsuk.co.uk/annuals.php

It was compiled years ago, but may be of some use to you.

Al

Thanks Captain.

JohnnyArouh, 'his' posts and IP Address have been banned.

Al

An excellent article-find Richard. Thank you.

Just when we thought we knew 'everything' about the Tiger comic, this comes along.

I wonder what other hidden gems are out there about British comics?

Al

I attempted to upgrade the forum a couple of weeks ago, and it didn't go to plan. So I reinstalled the previous version.

I logged on as my tester self, made a post, replied to it and it all seemed hunky dorey, and I was off, in the knowledge that the Forum was working, albeit the previous version ...

Hi Steve,

I would like to see this. The link you supplied goes to an empty album. Will you kindly reupload it please?

Thanks,

Ala

IMO - They are 16 pages comics and should be indexed as such.

If I was to take one of those 16-page tabloid comics, cut them in half from left to right, place the bottom half inside the top half, it doesn't miraculously become a 32 page comic :D

Hopefully, 16-page comics are not self-identifying ...

And here is that Wham! 21 fireworks issue from Leo Baxendale.

Chaps and chapesses,

Doug Brian on the Warlord Facebook group has recently written this message:

Many of you have probably noticed that joint admin Colin Noble has been conspicuous by his absence on the comic chats recently.

It is with an extremely heavy heart that his wife Karen has asked me ...

Some of you may be aware of Brian's passing, but I only found out about it via an email from his daughter Jo a few days ago. Brian sadly passed away back in May of this year, aged 94.

As this UK Comics Fandom web page states, he drew I Spy in Sparky, Fun Fear and Ghost Train for Whoopee!, Our Gran ...

I've just joined the GCD and uploaded Beano covers for issues 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 59, 60

I'll upload the others over time.

The images for your 2 Beano's and 2 Dandy's have come through fine thanks. Very nice items to have in your collection.

I don't have any pre-war issues of these titles. My earliest is a 1941 Dandy.

However, I have managed to acquire front covers of most of the pre-war issues though. Mostly from ...