Comics UK

I heard on LBC radio this morning that Microsoft is looking for the top 100 British Icons. I have just nominated the Beano and urge you all to do the same. Just type "Iconic Britain" into google and it is the iconicbritain.co.uk site. All you have to do is type Beano in the search box and then drag ...

Can I do that with tinypic? That's the only method I know at the moment as a bit of a novice with pc now-how.

I put the strips in correct order but comics uk has rearranged them. you can probably work out what is what. But glad to see they are now a manageable size, i didn't like the way they appeared on the forum at full size, felt i was creating an IT type hullabaloo. Using up space etc. Sparky Smith star...

i bought it but can't remember how many issues it lasted, if i'd known it was short lived i would have bought it every month just to have a whole set. It was summer special sized on glossy paper and all reprint i think. Mostly black and white. The four mary's certainly looked 60s vintage in style.

I'd like to share some original art with you, there are some Wally Robertson wordless strips, one by Reg Parlett and one by Dennis Gifford. I have chosen small examples as they are easier to scan but even so as you can see i have had to break them up and/or lose pieces. The Peter Sellers art has som...

Bit like those cake mixes that say "simply add an egg, butter and water". It's a packet of flour for chrissakes.

I remember reading once that Jack Kirby was one of the faster American comic artists. When you consider that Jack was drawing Thor, FF, Captain America (50 pages all tolled) and probably doing layouts on a couple of other strips I can't imagine him getting much done in a month on a page a day. (The ...

The Rover and Adventure ad was scanned from a copy of Wizard from around 1961. I was going through them before putting them on ebay. I think they combined two comics to make way for the soon to be launched Victor. Also boys' comics with mostly text were on the way out. Rover later combined with Wiza...

Wasn't Mike originally Smiler and Dimps in Knockout? And I think he also became Niblo Nibs in the Big One (reprints). I loved Eric's attention to detail, I remember he drew Mike/Smiler in a shop and he drew every item in the shop individually, superb.

Thanks for that, I knew i'd glimmed it recently and forgot about the Beano 70 years special.

Here are some full page ads I have scanned from DC Thomson comics recently. Sorrry about the size but don't know how to reduce them but if you right click on the image and select "view image" you can see it in its entirety. The faces at the top of the Dandy advert are obviously by Bill Ritchie but n...

Excuse me if this has appeared before in the past but last week a pal gave me some Beanos from the 50s that were doubles in his collection. They were five consequtive issues and as i have reproduced here issue 458 dated 28/4/1951 shows Dennis in the plain pullover whereas the following issue (459 da...

I always had a soft spot (between my ears?) for the Beezer. It had great stability of characters and some, like Pop Dick and Harry, Ginger, Baby Crockett, The Banana Bunch lasted for the whole of its run while others like The Badd Lads, Smiffy, The Numbskulls &c. had very long runs too. You can pick...

I remember there was a Dinah Mite in both DC Thomson and Fleetway comics, i think the Fleetway version later became Dinah Mo. Drawn by Reg Parlett if i remember correctly. Doesn't answer your question but i just wanted to show off. (Someone will now deflate my ego with a correction).

It would be nice but i'm afraid it would not make sense economically. DC Thomson are in the newspaper/comics business and need to make a profit or die. Putting together an expensive book that will be purchased by a few hundred fans as not viable. This occurred to me when I looked at the Beano 70 yea...