It's Wicked. Anyone remember this?

[stevezodiac]

As you can see this was a Marvel comic and they seemed to be trying to get into the Beano/Dandy market. They look like they have used UK artists and one here looks like the Cuddles and Dimples artist. Can anyone furnish further info. Just got these out of storage after 12 years, I'll no doubt be putting lots of posts on as more stuff becomes available to me as i root through my life's belongings.

[stevezodiac]

And here's the second issue complete with free gift:

[Lew Stringer]

No idea how long it ran for but any comic that nicked The Dandy's logo so closely was doomed to failure. Imitations never prosper.

This was indeed Marvel UK's attempt to break into the traditional children's comic market. Didn't work.

That was Barrie Appleby on one of the strips. The covers are by Bambos Georgiou.

Lew

[ISPYSHHHGUY]

this comic started in 1989, as can be seen, and probably closed a few months later;----the colour centrespread was a fairly stodgy 'GHOSTBUSTERS' strip starring 'SLIMER'.

I bought the first issue with the free fangs [and took 'em along to the local boozer].....I seem to remember a JOHN GEERING strip 'GHOSTIE KNOX' from around this period, though I ain't sure if it was in this partickler comic.

I remember at the time thinking that 30p was a lot for a comic!! [prices seemed to rise sharply in the mid-late 80s, with the likes of 'OINK' costing 30p]; prices seemed to at least double since the early 80s.

[stevezodiac]

One of the strips did look like the work of John Geering, the comic had black and white pages too but i've only shown the colour ones.

[Carnivac]

I'd just sold a complete run of these with various issues of Real Ghostbusters to a GB fan last year. I actually did quite enjoy this as a kid due to the more 'horror' theme. Still got the fangs from the first issue somewhere too.

[Digifiend]

No idea how long it ran for but any comic that nicked The Dandy's logo so closely was doomed to failure. Imitations never prosper.

This was indeed Marvel UK's attempt to break into the traditional children's comic market. Didn't work.

That was Barrie Appleby on one of the strips. The covers are by Bambos Georgiou.

Lew

Yep, can't mistake Appleby's artwork on Winnie the Witch Doctor. I wonder if DCT threatened to sue Marvel for plagarisation of the Dandy masthead, that D is virtually identical! To think the archives of this comic will now be owned by Disney...

Dave King was a writer/artist for it, but I don't know what strips. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dave-king/0/946/752

[tony ingram]

To think the archives of this comic will now be owned by Disney...

Actually, I think some of Marvel UK's non superhero based stuff ended up being sold to Panini when they took over. Not sure Disney would own this.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

It was a MASSIVE load better than The Bog Paper, that's for sure! Like a slightly-less-fun version of Monster Fun (what with all the characters being vaguely monster/horror-based).

Incidentally, Winnie the Witch Doctor appeared in both of Marvel's attempts on the children's market.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

Just done a blog thing about It's Wicked, if anyone's interested? I know I've already mentioned it in the "References" section, but at least this is relevant to the topic and so forth: http://twoheadedthingies.blogspot.co.uk ... icked.html

[Tin Can Tommy]

Two Headed Boy on your blog you mention another comic similiar to It's Wicked released by Marvel UK. What was this one called? I want to look it up.

[TwoHeadedBoy]

It's called The Bog Paper, a mostly toilet-based humour comic. Better than it sounds if you let your guard down! I'll be doing a post on it within the next few weeks