Comics UK

Who drew the Popeye strips on the back page? Barry Glennard? It's unusual to have new/original UK strips based on a US cartoon character, usually copyright prevents this. I always wonder if there are Popeye collectors in the States who are unaware of the hundreds of strips they are missing from TV C...

But what about Buster in the 60s and 70s? Whereas Valiant was action with some fun strips Buster was fun with some action strips, to chose between the two? As John Wayne said in Rio Bravo "I'd hate to have to live on the difference." Charlie Peace was one of my favourites but i think the 1970s was w...

Drat, I thought I was the first person in Britain to see this. I don't buy the Beano anymore, no space for modern comics. It would be nice to read it and then dispose of it but us collectors just can't do that. It ain't natural.

I pick up quite a few "unofficial" dvds of 60s tv shows but haven't seen The Impossibles yet, but I did miss the last London film fair. But I do have every Casey Jones, Double Deckers, Garrison's Gorrilas, Bilko, Amos Burke Secret Agent, Telegoons and more! Not great quality but perfectly watchable ...

In today's Weekly News there is an advert for a new Beano special - entitled The Beano 1938-2008 70 Years of Fun it is 64 pages and costs 4.99. It comes out on June 5th and here is the advert in question:

Back Issue is an American fanzine that concentrates on 70s and 80s comics as opposed to the Gold and Silver age of Alter Ego. Issue 28 has articles on the UK Hulk comic and the Marvelman/Miracleman characters. There is also a letter from Dez Skinn in the letters coloumn. Back Issue is available from...

Just seen one of their cartoons on youtube, they were a trio and their secret identity was as a a pop group. No drummer though!

I remember watching a Hannah-Barbera series in the 60s that featured a cartoon super hero group called The Impossibles. There was a fluid man who could turn into water, a multi man who could multiply himself many times and a spring man who could coil his body spring-like. Also think there was a big ...

I watched the first Spiderman film and the CGI totally put me off. Also i thought the casting was terrible, Toby Maguire is nothing like Peter Parker and the girl who plays Mary Jane can't hold a candle to the one we saw on the last page of Spiderman 40, 42? as drawn by John Romita. "Face it tiger, ...

Told you so - I rarely make mistakes. A friend reminded me that the Kingpin was played by a black actor in the Daredevil movie. What's that all about? Seems a bit condescending toward minorities if you ask me. "Look we're giving you a white man's role in a movie just to make you feel better about yo...

There is something to be said for black and white reprints. Anyone who reads Roy Thomas's Alter Ego fanzine will know that, because it is a black and white magazine, he prefers to reproduce art and covers in that medium. He therefore appreciates our Alan Class reprints which reproduced 50s horror an...

Yes i did realise it was Guy Gibson and not Bomber Harris, I was laying in bed that night thinking about it when I realised my error. The new Dambusters film is being directed by the bloke who directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy but I can never remember his name - yes i can - Peter Jackson! Just ...

Was in Greenwich park today and found a discarded Sunday Telegraph, imagine my surprise when I saw this on the front of the sport section. It's an advert for Bournville plain chocolate but I couldn't fit in the chocolate part of it, but you only want to see the strip. http://i30.tinypic.com/2wna8pe....

I picked up a lot of Victorian/Edwardian magazines recently among them was this copy of Puck from America, the centre spread is a two page cartoon in full colour - amazing for the time. Too big to scan in though. Also picked up a Lot-o-Fun Pictorial scrap book which reprints nothing but cartoons tha...

On the subject of PC when the Dambusters was shown on ITV a few months ago Bomber Harris's dog - Nigger - was called "Boy" all the way through the film by dubbing over the offending word. I understand there is a new Dambusters film in production and wonder if they will shy away from using the offend...