Comics on TV

[Niblet]

Thanks for identifying the two Eagles, Robbie - not being very knowledgeable about the title I assumed that was a single issue opened out to show the front and what I thought was the back page. I wonder if a genuine newsagent of the time would have an out of date issue on sale.

Cheers for confirmation of Dandy and Illustrated Chips, Digi.

[Digifiend]

I'd recognise that bellboy anywhere.

[Niblet]

From the second episode of Cradle to Grave. The programme is set in 1974, and I suspect that the partially obscured magazine with the red masthead in the foreground is, in a commendably fastidious act of set dressing, the issue of Warlord dated 23 November of that year. The scene occurs at about 17:30.

[Digifiend]

Danny Baker was 15 in 1972, not 1974 - he was born in June 1957. If the show mentioned 1974 they got it wrong - and the comic prop is therefore anachronic.

[Niblet]

This scene from the same episode certainly sets it in '74...



So if they miscalculated the year, at least the calendar is consistent with the comic!

This is a slightly better quality screen cap of the scene in question...

[davidandrewsimpson]

Digifiend

Re Danny Baker being 15 in 1972, not 1974: Cradle To Grave is a work of fiction based on Baker's life, not an autobiography. That means he can change dates to best suit the stories he wants to tell.

[stevezodiac]

I've never met Danny Baker but I have seen him around the area - at Millwall with a beer in each hand, in the pie and mash shop and in a record shop in Lewisham with Danny Kelly. I saw a bit of the programme after Dad's Army and noticed they mentioned the 199 bus going to Catford Garage. The 199 does go to Catford Garage now but there was no such route back in 1974. I have never forgiven Mr Baker for stealing our bonfire back in the late sixties/early seventies. He lived on the silwood estate across the road from us and my sister and her mate came running intoi our flats saying "some kids are nicking your bonfire" four or five of us rushed down the road to sort them out only to find about 20 kids like a line of leaf cutter ants taking our bonfire back to Silwood. We decided to let them have it - the bonfire that is. I like to think Danny was one of the miscreants.

[philcom55]

...Probably the ringleader!

[stevezodiac]

On another bonfire night a neighbour asked if we wanted a settee. We accepted it with gusto. It was a few nights before November 5th so the settee was made great use of. I remember us sitting on it outside the chip shop eating our chips and over the docks sitting on it while fishing. (the surrey docks had closed down by then). Great days.

[Niblet]

Earlier on this thread I posted a pic of Sheila Hancock as Carole reading a copy of Mystery In Space during a 1962 episode of The Rag Trade. In another episode of the same series we see Carole preparing for another reading session.



Foreman Reg (Varney) snatches away Carole's reading matter. It's definitely not the same issue of MIS (the above view of the back cover shows it to be different to the MIS back page in the earlier episode), and it may not even be a comic. I've taken as good a screen cap of the front cover as possible and inverted it, as I think Reg is holding it upside down, but I can't make out the visible part of the title.



In this scene from the same episode, a Look and Learn can be seen behind dear old Esma Cannon and her newspaper.

[davidandrewsimpson]

Niblet

The upside down cover looks like an issue of Rip Hunter, Time Master, a DC comic which began in 1961.

If you go to http://www.comics.org/series/1469/covers/ you can see a gallery of Rip Hunter comics.

[Niblet]

Well spotted David - I think you're right. Carole certainly likes her Sci-Fi comics!

[Niblet]

I managed to get a different view of the cover.



And, thanks to David, I reckon it's probably this Jan-Feb 1962 issue...

[Robbie Moubert]

And here's the back cover seen in the first picture.

[Niblet]

Excellent!