Comics UK

The Genesis of the Cybermen illustration is from the 1988 book "Cybermen", written by actor David Banks with Andrew Skilleter as the primary illustrator.

In the Callan episode "I Never Wanted the Job" (Series 4, episode 8 - April 1972), Lonely is reading issue 822 of The Beezer from October 1971.

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Here you go:

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No the TV Terrors was nothing like Titcombe's work. Also TV Terrors was never signed and Bill usually signed his work.


He certainly drew the strip at some point...

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You can see an example of Sinclair's Basil Brush in this post on Lew Stringer's old Blimey! blog.

I believe TV Terrors was drawn by Bill Titcombe.

I can't help with where it appeared but it looks like it's signed Chas Sinclair + D.G. Chas Sinclair provided art for a Quick on the Draw book by Denis Gifford.

He also drew the cover for another Gifford-edited publication, Melvin's Money Fun.

Sinclair was also one of the artists on the Basil ...

I noticed the first BB strip was signed "ross" and a little searching reveals that it appears to be cartoonist Ross Thomson.

https://www.rosscartoons.com/

I'd just like to say that I really admire the effort you're putting in to these listings. Keep up the good work!

I would like your help Robbie (as you have posted several times in this Look-in section with excellent information) any idea about The Bionic Woman strips?? I know Burns and Bolton drew them but Ranson is said to have drawn one or more or filled in.
I would appreciate anything you know about this ...

I believe the William strips were written by Look-in stalwart Angus Allan (adapted from Crompton's original stories) and drawn by Arthur Ranson. The first episode is signed "ARfter Thomas Henry." Henry was the illustrator of the original books.

I think you're over-thinking things. I can't see why Look-in, or rather Independent Television Publications, would have built up an extensive collection of unsolicited submissions in such a short space of time, especially ones that had no relevance to a comic based around TV shows. I also find it ...

More lovely Mike Noble images - this time from the 'Explorer 12' series of books (no, I hadn't heard of them either)

https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/2024/07/mike-noble-explorer-12.html


They were for a range of toys available from British Home Stores. Someone has a website devoted to ...

The pages were numbered for binding in half-year volumes, so the first issues of January and July each year would start with page one. There may have been some variations on this during the 1940s when it was published fortnightly, but they were back to the January/July system by 1949 when it resumed ...

Only three stories were published in UK comics prior to English translations of the albums becoming available (from 1969 onwards). In 1963, Valiant did "Astérix le Gaulois" as "Little Fred and Big Ed" (later in the story, when Obelix is absent, it became "Little Fred, the Ancient Brit with Bags of ...

Not girls' comics but Belloy and Asterix were both changed into Britons in Valiant (as Paladin and Little Fred respectively). Ranger/Look and Learn also made Asterix a Briton (as Beric the Bold).