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In my list of Peter Foster football comics I have, I forgot one: "The Mean Machine": kid in a football-mad family becomes a striker for the team his family has always supported. Asks for a transfer when it is taken over by a nasty player-manager who turns it from a 'family club' to a 'mean machine'....

Here are the Peter Foster-illustrated Football Picture Story Monthlies I have in my collection. There are fifteen, and there must be more he drew because there are huge gaps in my FPSM collection as you can see from the jumps in numbers. 7. Terror City: An unusual one in that there is almost no foot...

I'm terribly sorry about my contributions to this thread last night, so pointlessly point-proving. It won't happen again I promise.

They're only comics...

Look, I just know its not a reprint. Trust me. Due to celebratory extras, there was no room for the regular Brassneck strip in the 50th anniversary issue so it was put on the back of the poster instead. it was drawn by the regular weekly artist (Steve Bright) and followed the then-usual pattern of B...

Here's the spread from "Rip" (Dandy Annual 1989). Interesting to find out it was written as a Black Bob story, I wondered at the time why they didn't jsut make it a Black Bob story but I see Mr Heggie's point. http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h162/iancockburn/comical%20characters/img160.jpg http://...

As I said earlier, the poster was advertising the book Dandy Beano - The First Fifty Years . Characters from The Beano , such as Pansy Potter, were obviously entitled to be in there as representatives of their comic. :roll: But it was free with the Dandy (50th anniversary issue as I said), and was ...

steven wrote:
As recent Dandy relaunches seemed to have lasted every 3 years. Will this Dandy stand up to 2013 with or without celebs?

I think the potential 75th anniversary boost could be the make or break point.

Digifiend wrote:Hold on, why was Pansy Potter there? She's a Beano character.

That puzzled me at the time! Not that I bothered writing in or anything...

Is this Peter Foster's work? http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h162/iancockburn/comical%20characters/img159.jpg If so, "a dozen" football picture story monthlies is an understatement. He did many many more that. He also drew the token adventure story in the 1989 Dandy Book, which was about foxhuntin...

I dimly remember them. Both the Dandy and the Beano gave away a poster for their respective 50th birthdays, which probably gave DCT the idea for the poster comics, which were for sale in their own right and each contained one single complete story (on the reverse of the poster) of which the poster w...

"Champ" was a bit before my time but fortunately "We Are United" continued in, er, "Football" (the picture library series), and was a favourite of mine too. It didn't stay static either, new members of the team were added and dropped, and there was never any one "star" who was more important than th...

According to Wikipedia, until 1987 the bottom four clubs of division 4 had to apply for re-election to the football league; there was no automatic relegation to the conference.

I love football comics, much more than actual football. So much more exciting.

Ha ha, yes, you may be right about me using the kids as an excuse to buy the Dandy. I wasn't expecting so much resistance to the idea of an all-ages comic (after all, the Dandy editor has stated in the interview I linked to that it is his aim), whilst I was expecting more reaction to my feeling tha...

Bad art may well exist, but how can you separate it out from the storm of criticism about pretty much anything? You can only apply aesthetic judgement, based on universal principles (the primary aesthetic notions being beauty and ugliness). Many artists whose style I regard as really really ugly, a...

If we were in the business of inventing far-fetched alternative history to reconcile obvious inconsistencies of fiction, we could suggest that Northport was renamed "Beanotown" in the 1980s in honour of its famed citizens.