British comics in Greek magazines

chrisb · Post by **chrisb** » 05 Apr 2016, 20:06

The Young Rebel is Canal Courier from, as you say, The Victor. It ran in 1983 in issues 1143 to 1155.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 05 Apr 2016, 20:17

The Boomerang one is Boomerang Boy from the Victor. I recognised the art as Jim Watson's straight away and Adrian Banfield has listed it as running from issues 1156 to 1166 (16 April to 25 June 1983)

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 05 Apr 2016, 20:19

Raven wrote:
ramirez wrote:Jack Pamby is mentioned as artist, but was John Stokes also involved? That page I 've uploaded above seems like his style.
Or is that John Catchpole? Some of the faces resemble his work in the 1976 Lion Annual.

The New Adventures of Robinson Crusoe looks like it's drawn by the same artist who drew Survivor and Valley of Fear for Bullet, whom I don't think anyone here has been able to name.

I would agree with you that it is the same artist Raven.

ramirez · Post by **ramirez** » 06 Apr 2016, 01:48

Perhaps he 's still unidentifiable because he 's Spanish?

Do we know the name of the Canal Courier artist? I know he has drawn at least one football strip too, don 't remember its title right now...

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 06 Apr 2016, 07:20

ramirez wrote:Perhaps he 's still unidentifiable because he 's Spanish?

Do we know the name of the Canal Courier artist? I know he has drawn at least one football strip too, don 't remember its title right now...

It looks like it is the work of Maidagan who has drawn a number of series for D C Thomson since the early 1970s.

Kashgar · Post by **Kashgar** » 06 Apr 2016, 09:44

The unknown artist on the 'Pirates' strip may well be Spanish but I'm pretty certain that the strip itself is from a D C Thomson boys picture paper. Hotspur I think. I'll try to track it down.

ramirez · Post by **ramirez** » 07 Apr 2016, 03:24

Even with a small picture as a sample, his profile on lambiek.net suggests that you are right, colcool007...

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 07 Apr 2016, 08:59

ramirez wrote:Even with a small picture as a sample, his profile on lambiek.net suggests that you are right, colcool007...

Would you believe that Kashgar gave me that name back in 2007? I had forgotten it and then David Roach reminded me of it on Facebook a few weeks ago.

ramirez · Post by **ramirez** » 11 Apr 2016, 19:08

Found the guy that drew the "Pirates" strip. Tomás Porto...

By the way, was there a "Kids Rule-OK" strip in Action but also in Champ as well?

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 11 Apr 2016, 20:17

ramirez wrote:Found the guy that drew the "Pirates" strip. Tomás Porto...

By the way, was there a "Kids Rule-OK" strip in Action but also in Champ as well?

There was but the one in Champ was much, much tamer. The Champ version was a sit in so that the kids of Kingsway Comprehensive could save their school. This name always made me smile as it is the name of a main rod in Dundee. Imagine how big my smile got when I found out that the main D C Thomson printworks was on the same road!

ramirez · Post by **ramirez** » 12 Apr 2016, 00:25

I know, the Champ version has been printed in greek, I was just perplexed why on earth there are two strips with the same name...

ramirez · Post by **ramirez** » 13 Apr 2016, 22:36

I think the artist of "Robinson Crusoe..." is César Aurelio Spadari.

By the way, I believe there was a Mike White strip concerning two kids (brother-sister again as in the Puzzler). Their father is a scientist and has created mechanical ancient animals for a science fair (long time before Jurassic Park) and after a lightning they begin operating on their own. Could you advise the english title and magazine?

Robbie Moubert · Post by **Robbie Moubert** » 14 Apr 2016, 08:56

March of the Mighty Ones. It appeared in Monster Fun from issue one (June 1975). The creatures were created for a film shoot.

colcool007 · Post by **colcool007** » 14 Apr 2016, 19:02

ramirez wrote:I know, the Champ version has been printed in greek, I was just perplexed why on earth there are two strips with the same name...

The comics were printed by different publishers so not really a surprise that a generic name such as Kids Rule OK was used by both companies. Action which featured the more controversial version was published by Fleetway in the 1970s whereas the much tamer Champ was published by D C Thomson in the 1980s.

I hope that explains it a bit more for you Ramirez.

ramirez · Post by **ramirez** » 15 Apr 2016, 00:58

Well I still don 't get it, and I don 't get how DC Thomson were not sued by Fleetway for infringment.

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Oh, and thanks for the name of the Mike White strip, Robbie.

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By the way, I found that the football strip I mentioned on page 5 is "GIVE IT TO GREGORY!" from SCORE 'n' ROAR. Does anyone recognise the artist?

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