I only once went searching for comics when I was abroad as a young 'un, but as I was 15 and in Sweden with far too many beautiful girls per male, I can be forgiven for getting ever so slightly distracted!
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I was lucky as where I lived, when I was growing up, was fairly close to a US base and I used to get a steady diet of discarded Archie comics and I still love them to this day. Not in the same vein as my usual fare of Victor/Battle etc, but they were nice and light and were usually great value of several hours reading to the dollar (we got the then version of TPBs) or in our case to the donation.
I only once went searching for comics when I was abroad as a young 'un, but as I was 15 and in Sweden with far too many beautiful girls per male, I can be forgiven for getting ever so slightly distracted!
I only once went searching for comics when I was abroad as a young 'un, but as I was 15 and in Sweden with far too many beautiful girls per male, I can be forgiven for getting ever so slightly distracted!
I started to say something sensible but my parents took over my brain!
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Well I didn't go for the book..space is a problem in a flat...also a bit too heavy to read..Don Martin complete vol 1 and 2 book
So I went for the Mad Magazine CD Rom option....
Got it today...its just amazing....all the special issues as well...all Mad magazines up to 1998...
You have to put in different cd rom if the page is a reprint But it does show you what were the new pages in the Special issues...like Star Wars Mad special issue
the interactions are very funny...hearing the comic artists laughing and seeing them doing Mad stuff:) you can even read all the marginals in one issue in a row...Same with Don Martin and all the artists...a great feature..some Marginal cartoons you can't read when printed on a grey background only downside (nothing mega...most you can read)
Read the first Mad and great it was as well...the comic spoofs were great...
Loving the Don Martin work........the mind boggles of how much there is to read.....its very easy to skip along.....
Anyway 10 out of 10....chuckled a lot this morning...great interactions on the page..Buy it!! The tune loading up makes me smile..hasn't driven me Mad yet!!
So I went for the Mad Magazine CD Rom option....
Got it today...its just amazing....all the special issues as well...all Mad magazines up to 1998...
You have to put in different cd rom if the page is a reprint But it does show you what were the new pages in the Special issues...like Star Wars Mad special issue
the interactions are very funny...hearing the comic artists laughing and seeing them doing Mad stuff:) you can even read all the marginals in one issue in a row...Same with Don Martin and all the artists...a great feature..some Marginal cartoons you can't read when printed on a grey background only downside (nothing mega...most you can read)
Read the first Mad and great it was as well...the comic spoofs were great...
Loving the Don Martin work........the mind boggles of how much there is to read.....its very easy to skip along.....
Anyway 10 out of 10....chuckled a lot this morning...great interactions on the page..Buy it!! The tune loading up makes me smile..hasn't driven me Mad yet!!
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Some are a little pixalated...But very readable..
It has all the specials
133 Specials as well as the 376 issues....has I say there is no way you would be able to get hold of all of these.....I paid 15 pounds.....
all the foldins move interactivly..
some animations of spy v's spy
a favourites folder you can create.
you can bookmark a page for the nest day to carry on reading from when you left off..
Lets hope The Beano does this maybe from 1959 up to the present day as it would already be on film making it easier to do.
You could read one character in a row like Bash Street kids...Jonah..from the computer.
it has an artist option so you can skip to just there work..love that feature..reading lots of Don Martin in order..
Also all the adverts are there...
Downside (Hardly a downside considering what you get for little money) its not paper.....you have to read off the screen.....some pages when zoomed in a lot!! are pixalated..But I have no problem with it..
I'm just excited and going back to read more......its just so good,,,,,
It has all the specials
133 Specials as well as the 376 issues....has I say there is no way you would be able to get hold of all of these.....I paid 15 pounds.....
all the foldins move interactivly..
some animations of spy v's spy
a favourites folder you can create.
you can bookmark a page for the nest day to carry on reading from when you left off..
Lets hope The Beano does this maybe from 1959 up to the present day as it would already be on film making it easier to do.
You could read one character in a row like Bash Street kids...Jonah..from the computer.
it has an artist option so you can skip to just there work..love that feature..reading lots of Don Martin in order..
Also all the adverts are there...
Downside (Hardly a downside considering what you get for little money) its not paper.....you have to read off the screen.....some pages when zoomed in a lot!! are pixalated..But I have no problem with it..
I'm just excited and going back to read more......its just so good,,,,,
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Hi, Moosie.
"Alan Class comics used to be everywhere when I was a kid (certainly in Glasgow) and I took them for granted (although used to get them regularly for a while for the same reasons as you) when they went I really missed them, they reprinted some great titles and art- Wally Woods Thunder agents, Charltons Judo Master, the Radio/Mighty comics heros (FLY MAN , Steel Sterling, Crusaders etc) and Marvel/Atlas strips - I started to pick some of these up recenly at comic fairs."
They didn't reprint any Charlton stuff or those others you mention during my Class-buying era (post mid-70s) - it was just weird tales from the old Marvel (well, Atlas) comics and, I think, post-Code ACG comics (like 'Forbidden Worlds' and 'Unknown Worlds'), which had more conservative artwork but were usually solid enough little tales.
"Charlton comics were never well printed and had some truely bland art but in among that there were some great titles (E man, their version of the Phantom with great Don Newtons art - the Vengance Squad and Doomsday plus 1 with John Byrne etc) ."
I did see some Charlton titles that were better than those I mentioned - not in holiday places but near home; horror comics with titles like Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library and Ghostly Haunts, some of which had quite striking covers and sometimes okay art and pulpy stories inside. Yes, printing quality could be quite poor. I remember they contained ads for posters of the period's young stars, very dark, smudgy and unclear.
Ooh - and just remembered; after all the IPC Specials had been bought, I'd still buy the Polystyle ones before the Dandy and Beano Specials; TV Comic and its characters' own individual Specials. There was a Popeye one each year and at least one Tom and Jerry one, reprinting Bill Titcombe's weekly cover strips end to end.
Mostly all were surely end to end reprints from the comic, in fact, but that in itself seemed quite good!
"Alan Class comics used to be everywhere when I was a kid (certainly in Glasgow) and I took them for granted (although used to get them regularly for a while for the same reasons as you) when they went I really missed them, they reprinted some great titles and art- Wally Woods Thunder agents, Charltons Judo Master, the Radio/Mighty comics heros (FLY MAN , Steel Sterling, Crusaders etc) and Marvel/Atlas strips - I started to pick some of these up recenly at comic fairs."
They didn't reprint any Charlton stuff or those others you mention during my Class-buying era (post mid-70s) - it was just weird tales from the old Marvel (well, Atlas) comics and, I think, post-Code ACG comics (like 'Forbidden Worlds' and 'Unknown Worlds'), which had more conservative artwork but were usually solid enough little tales.
"Charlton comics were never well printed and had some truely bland art but in among that there were some great titles (E man, their version of the Phantom with great Don Newtons art - the Vengance Squad and Doomsday plus 1 with John Byrne etc) ."
I did see some Charlton titles that were better than those I mentioned - not in holiday places but near home; horror comics with titles like Baron Weirwulf's Haunted Library and Ghostly Haunts, some of which had quite striking covers and sometimes okay art and pulpy stories inside. Yes, printing quality could be quite poor. I remember they contained ads for posters of the period's young stars, very dark, smudgy and unclear.
Ooh - and just remembered; after all the IPC Specials had been bought, I'd still buy the Polystyle ones before the Dandy and Beano Specials; TV Comic and its characters' own individual Specials. There was a Popeye one each year and at least one Tom and Jerry one, reprinting Bill Titcombe's weekly cover strips end to end.
Mostly all were surely end to end reprints from the comic, in fact, but that in itself seemed quite good!
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Hi Raven - thats strange re the Alan CLass comics as I wasn't aware of the Marvel reprints (as in the Superheros - I had the Atlas mystery strips) with one exception a reprint of Avengers No 3 (or there abouts) everytime I picked up Alan CLass they had THunder Agents (with excellent Wally Wood art) or Mighty Comics characters (The Web, Flyman, Shadow, Black Hood, Fox etc). Alan Class reprinted a few Charlton charaters (but not sure when this was I would have thought early - mid 70s but my be wrong there) and strips, the aforementioned Judo Master along with the odd mystery title from Ditko (can't rememebr his mystery characters name) and Thunderbold, Captain Atom (Ditko again) Nightshade, Sarge Steel etc. Worth looking out if you see them. I forgot about those ads for posters of the period's young stars (most of them long forgotten now) and the Polystyle comics - ahhh memories
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Marvel superhero reprints were in all the Alan Class comics in the early sixties but by the early seventies they were rarely (if ever) seen. At a guess I imagine the new Marvel UK may have put their foot down on such competition.THE MOOSE wrote:Hi Raven - thats strange re the Alan CLass comics as I wasn't aware of the Marvel reprints (as in the Superheros
Some cover scans and info on those Alan Class comics (and other Marvel British reprints) here:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2008/01 ... art-1.html
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THE MOOSE: "Hi Raven - thats strange re the Alan CLass comics as I wasn't aware of the Marvel reprints (as in the Superheros - I had the Atlas mystery strips)"
It's the mystery strips I was referring to; what I meant by 'weird tales,' though I did see a Sixties Class comic or two, like Lew refers to, featuring Marvel superhero material at a comic mart once; featuring Daredevil, possibly. When I was buying them it was Atlas and ACG mystery shorts all the way.
"I forgot about those ads for posters of the period's young stars (most of them long forgotten now)"
Scott Baio, Kristy McNichol and the late 70s TV Hardy Boys I recall being the subjects of several of these. Address books of the stars also used to be advertised.
It's the mystery strips I was referring to; what I meant by 'weird tales,' though I did see a Sixties Class comic or two, like Lew refers to, featuring Marvel superhero material at a comic mart once; featuring Daredevil, possibly. When I was buying them it was Atlas and ACG mystery shorts all the way.
"I forgot about those ads for posters of the period's young stars (most of them long forgotten now)"
Scott Baio, Kristy McNichol and the late 70s TV Hardy Boys I recall being the subjects of several of these. Address books of the stars also used to be advertised.
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Thanks for the link Lew, that issue of Creepy Worlds issue 133 was the first issue of an Alan Class comic that I actually remember getting (although it probably wasn't the first issue I read as my older brother used to get these but I preferred the Beezer etc then) I thought it wasa 70s reprint but obviously its a 60s book. I didnt relasie theEagle reprinted TALES OF ASGARD I though the only UK comics to reprint Marvel strips was either the Miller/Class etc books or Odhams (then later UK Marvel etc) Did any other "proper" UK comic title liek Eagle reprint Marvel strips ? what about DC?.