Comics UK

They didn't have Playhour either, but I doubt that these were stolen!

Is that John Canning's artwork on the Ladybird strip? Neat jet-bike, but I really don't think children should be allowed to play with guns!

I remember seeing 2000AD for the first time, and it was a bit of a shock. Hurried art in black and white on crappy paper, page after page of violent action, and not one likable character; I expected all science fiction comics to look like TV21 ! With hindsight, it did have a good line in black humou...

I'd want every comic published in Britain between 1960 and 1970. Simple, really. BTW, have any of you visited the British Library? There are some big gaps in their comic collection. Nothing from Miller, for example.

The Keith Watson "Dan Dare" strips in the Nineties Eagle are quite beautiful, and true to the original strip. Watson's best work, I think.

Her or she, Little Bovril is too much of a traitor to cow-kind here. The one-panel pun ads were cuter: "A Little Bovril goes down well". (Splosh!)

Thanks for that, Robbie. Sir Lastalot's a cut above Gumslinger, more like "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again."

Ah, Supermousse, a cross between Roger Ramjet and Bullwinkle!

Has anyone got a Rowntree's "Sir Lastalot" ad they could post? (Roundtree's Gums, they ain't what they used to be since they stopped using gum arabic in the formula.)

Here's "Anglo Ace" from TV Tornado 7.10.67., different from the strip Lew posted. Not much to it, but it certainly looks snazzy! The same issue has a full-page anti-smoking strip by Tom Kerr, "A Shock For Bully Brown". angloace.jpg I don't mind Grape Nuts occasionally, but my Mum couldn't get enough...

That's Eric R. Parker, Phil. It seems odd to see him drawing science fiction, but he did it well.

"Anglo Ace" was eye-catching even in black-and-white! That Peter Max Yellow Submarine style is fun to draw.

It's the square mono-bucktooth, the backwards bend on the lower mouth, and the narrow tombstone-shaped eyes that indicate the Mystery Noddle artist, Phil. That's him all right.

The annual cover is priceless! It's overshot "cute" by a mile and achieved "scary" instead.

Maybe we should start a thread on advertising strips?

One last thing on the Cor!! clippings: The "Sir Lastalot" advert I mentioned is actually from the Xmas 1970 issue of Buster, not Cor!!. I managed to peel it and look at the back.

Thanks again Steve. That's quite a good one, rather Ken Reid-ish.