Comics UK

According to https://hachettepartworks.com/Draw-the- ... ading=true it's still going

There's a cheap 2000AD special due out at the same time.

https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/12/20 ... t-special/

Issue 11 of Space Ace is now out. See https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2018/10/ ... -2018.html for full news on this, plus the future of Space Ace, and forthcoming reprints of Ron Turner's work for Tit-Bits SF Comics

The cover is from Dell Four Color 491. This featured a 34-pg story. The first page should have "Silvertip OS 491" lettered onto the bottom of the title panel. If you see any Dell reprints which have a reference including OS on the first page, that was the lead story in the issue of Four Color corres...

It's Royal mail who deliver the mail, not Post Office, so you'd have to heave a brick through your local Royal Mail delivery office.

Stick your post code in at https://www.royalmail.com/delivery-and- ... ice-finder to find yours.

Babington

Fantasy Unlimited started off as sales list for dealer Alan Austin, becoming an excellent comics fanzine which was eventually retitled Comics Unlimited, running for many years in the seventies.

There's a lovely tribute to him at https://30thcenturycomics.co.uk/alan-austin/

According to Steve Holland's book Lion, King Of Picture Story Papers, it was numbered to 378 (16/05/59)

Here's the link http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/n ... -at-heart/

An Oor Wullie chip shop, intended as the start of a chain, has opened in Aberdeen. See https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/the-first ... -business/ for the Sunday Post story on its opening.

As well as at least four film versions, there was an American Owd Bob comic book under the title Bob, Son of Battle, published by Dell Comics as a one-shot, issue #729 of their Four Color series. More details are at the Wikipedia Owd Bob page. The comic book, by Gaylord DuBois and Mike Sekowsky, can...

Tammyfan Ian and Grappner have a showdown fight on top of a cliff. Grappner tries to shove Ian off the cliff but Ian, in self defence, grabs Grappner's foot. Grappner falls off balance and over the cliff to his death. Some British soldiers blow up a lab and the Nazi weapon in it. Ian returns home to...

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There's an article about Fantastic Adventures at https://downthetubes.net/?p=25076

In Jonathan Meades On Jargon on BBC4, Sunday 27th May, a section on football jargon was illustrated with comic strip images, I think produced specially for the show.

It's still available through the usual catch-up services, and I assume it will be repeated at some point.

It looks like The Falcon, a costumed crime fighter who appeared in later issues of Radio Fun.

The Heath Ackley page at Comic Vine says male, but whether someone there knows or is just guessing I have no idea.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/heath-ac ... 40-100167/