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Phoenix wrote:

ISPYSHHHGUY wrote:The first one [Watkins/Mc Grath] I discovered myself

And didn't you get a real buzz from your discovery? Can you put up a scan please, or at least identify the panel and the strip, so that we can all have a look at it.

I'm sure it's already been shown on the forum. It's from a 1960s Beano Book.

Yeah, that Biffo/3 Bears story is definitely on here somewhere. Use the Search function.

Thanks Lew. I've just been reading the strip. For anyone else who would like to look at it, it's on page 2 of the Bob McGrath what else did he draw? thread from January 2009.

P.S. Just noticed Digi's suggestion. I'd already done the search, Digi, but thanks anyway.

I can't recall the "Mummies" strip going into `Peter Pipers!? It just continued on the back page! - does in my copies! So i'm a bit puzzled there Captain! Anyhow- As I stated in the `file` I did put parameters on my `logging` And -yes! sadly, there are probably some errors/ommissions, which for (whatever they are) I apologise!

But, its nice to know folks are taking the time to have a gander and point things out! Cheers!

Bloody hell-fire! I didn't expect that reaction! I was only pointing out a mash up between two strips that I liked. Wasn't expecting War and Peace! Wasn't really expecting any reply at all to be honest. Still , thanks to Phoenix for defending my honour For those who may be interested the strip I refer to appears in Sparky No. 635 19th March 1977. In it Peter comes across a billboard ad for the Mummies strip and brings it to life. Only lasted about 2 panels so not really a crossover as such. Just thought people might be intrigued it occurred at all.

regards,

The Cap.

I apologize wholeheartedly if I came accross as undermining your wholesome, honest-to-goodness, 'mom's apple -pie' values, Cap!

Jeez Ispy , who rubbed you up the wrong way? Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. And I'd appreciate it if you didn't call my character into question please. At least not on a public forum. Thank you,

sincerely,

The Cap.

Cap: I wasn't being sarky, I am on record as being anti-sarcasm, and if you don't believe me, please refer to my blogsite, where this subject is adressed in black-and white terms, with relish.
'ere we go, me ole mucker!:

http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com ... -back.html

Thenking yew!

Okay Ispy , no harm done then in that context. I sincerely thought you were slighting me. I've been through a family crisis recently and the "mom's apple pie" quote struck a raw nerve. Still , life's too short and we should now get back on track,

sincerely,

The Cap.

Earlier in this topic there was a bit of argy bargy about going too far by listing character appearances in others' strips. Well having dug out an old checklist book I can plead guilty to that. Here is my checklist for every issue of Cracker which also includes all the ads that appeared too. Hand written as it was done in the 1980s before home pcs. My method was to give each strip a reference number thereby making future references easier.

I noticed that I credited my own authorship of a Hector the Collector strip.







Back then I had the name Ron Spence as one of the artists which I now realise is incorrect. Don't know why those early 30s numbers are blank - either the same as previous or I didn't have them to hand.

I suppose I could have listed every strip where others characters `guest` in strips other than their own- but I was up to my eyeballs just trying to catch each time a strip got `dropped` for a week or more!

I think the `I. Spy` character appeared in the most strips not his own! But that's just a guess! I think the first `guest` was back in early 1965 when `Keyhole Kate` appeared in a `Freddie the Fearless Spy` strip!

The interest in these `guest` characters is seeing how they are drawn by other artists!

here's an interesting thing! The first ever `I. Spy` drawing wasn't from Les Barton! nay! it was via Bill Ritchie who did all drawings on the January `Pink Flier` for new Sparky characters to debut in the 1st Feb 1969 re-vamp! `I. Spy` bieng one such was drawn in the flier by Bill a week prior to his Les Barton drawn incarnation!

Pity you can't scan that image in, Alan.

I take back everything I stated earlier about it being 'sad' collecting data on character's inter-appearences in comics, or I will end up offending half of the members on this site!

Inter-character references are well documented within the annals of animated cartoon History, and seriously studied by buffs of such matters, so why not comics? You guys have altered my perception on this subject.


This meticulous cataloguing of comics/character apperences is not for me though, but you guys pursue it with relish...it's not harming anyone.

Bill Ritchie drew Simple Spyman - all in black and not unlike I Spy. Was it in the Beezer? (Probably been mentioned already but I don't have the time to scroll through all the posts).

It's from Cracker.
http://home.btconnect.com/thetopper/simplespyman.htm
http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogs ... -from.html

DOH! Just listed the Cracker characters and didn't notice that. Also aware that I didn't know Bill Ritchie's name back in the 80s.