Comics UK

Lew Stringer wrote: I did say a while back I wasn't going to buy any more old comics because I had all the ones I wanted. But then a voice inside my head said "You never really gave the DC Thomson adventure comics a chance when you were a kid."

I must admit that I was a little slow in going over to adventure comics from my favourite DCT humour titles but when I did; it was to IPC. It was only later did I look at DCT adventure comics such as Spike, Buddy and Champ. But it was The Crunch and Hotspur which caught my imagination.

On retrospect, I find I always preferred the DCT humour titles and IPC adventure titles to their counterparts.

Back on topic: Issues 1 & 2 of Funny Monsters Comic came through the door today.

Ephemera fair and comic fair on Sunday. At the ephemera fair I purchased the following:

The Gem 1190 dated 6.12.30 (Xmas issue)
The Dreadnought 147 dated 20.3.15
Young Britain vol. 2 no. 38 dated 9.8.24
Pluck 425 dated 17.01.1903
Lot-O-Fun 1167 dated 28.7.28, 348 dated 9.11.1912 (Firework number), 163 dated 24.4.1909
The World's Comic 279 dated 3.11.1897
Jolly Jack's Weekly (Junior Section of the Sunday Despatch) dated 16.9.34
Little Sparks 53 dated 21.5.21
Boys and Girls Daily Mail 23.12.33 (Xmas number), 23.8.33, 9.11.35 (broadsheet), 8.5.37
The Big Budget vol 2 no. 35 dated 12.2.1898
Summer Comic not dated but only four issues were published between 1932 and 1938
Bo Peep 64 dated 3.1.31 New Year issue
Sparks 275 dated 19.4.1919
Picture Fun 294? dated 28.11.1914
Comic Cuts 1259 dated 27.6.1914
Funny Folks vol. 3 no. 35 dated 7.8.1875
Comic Home Journal 476 dated 18.6.1904
The Big Comic 155 dated 30.12.1916

Also got a few 1950s women's magazines.

I was pleased with these because there were a few titles that are fairly rare and one or two titles I did not previously have an example of. At the comic fair all I bought was a Jason King dvd box set.

Well, I drove down to visit that nice Mr Ingram and I crossed his palms with folding stuff and he helped to fill my boot with reading material!

Suffice to say, 3 boxes of Commandos, a box of The Wizard (pictorial version) and The Rover and a large chunk of Hornet leaves colcool007 a very happy chappie. Plus, the knowledge, that when the box of Hotspurs are found, they will be trundling their way up to me too doesn't exactly fill me with doom and gloom.

colcool007 wrote:Well, I drove down to visit that nice Mr Ingram and I crossed his palms with folding stuff and he helped to fill my boot with reading material!

Suffice to say, 3 boxes of Commandos, a box of The Wizard (pictorial version) and The Rover and a large chunk of Hornet leaves colcool007 a very happy chappie. Plus, the knowledge, that when the box of Hotspurs are found, they will be trundling their way up to me too doesn't exactly fill me with doom and gloom.

Always a pleasure to meet a real enthusiast-and thank yoyu, by the way, for finding the key to my safe, which I'd been hunting for for longer than I can remember. I have no idea how it wound up in that box of Commandos.

Got the Christmas issues of 2000AD, Doctor Who Magazine and The Beano.

Oxfam Edinburgh had a load of Commandos for 75p each (and some of the humour fun-sizes). I tend to buy the celtic, romans, vikings etc. historical ones. Unfortunately, so did people who came before me it would seem. So, only bought the one with the masked-man of the Phantom.

eeh, Sid! I remember a time I bought at least 7 xmas titles and then went on to buy the same for new year, the following week. How times have changed

And, in addition, none of them were bagged or had free gifts attached... they simply had snow dripping from the title banner. Aah! such nostalgia...

Yesterday, I received a spanking condition of Valiant Summer Special 1977. Very chuffed. Cost £15 but, regarding such condition, I have no regrets

Some nice old British reprints of American comics...

Adventures into Weird Worlds No. 1 (Thorpe & Porter)

Captain America No. 1 (L. Miller & Son Ltd)

Startling Terror Tales No. 1 ("ABC Chiller")

Tales from the Crypt No. 1 ("ABC Chiller")

I don't know anything about these, and it's hard to find out anything online, especially about the Captain America comic - does anyone know when they date from?

I also bought a Huckleberry Hound Summer Extra, priced 1/6d, which I'm guessing is from 1964 or 1965 - it says it was published (by City Magazines) due to the popularity of the Winter Extra. It has a copyright of 1963 and 1964. But I can't find an example online or in databases or in 'Complete British Comics'. The cover shows HH standing on a boat beside the sea with Yogi Bear and other characters getting on to the boat. The logo is red on a yellow background. Anyone have any ideas?

The Cap America is a one-off from 1954. Any chance of a scan? I've never seen it.

babington wrote:Some nice old British reprints of American comics...

Adventures into Weird Worlds No. 1 (Thorpe & Porter)

Captain America No. 1 (L. Miller & Son Ltd)

Startling Terror Tales No. 1 ("ABC Chiller")

Tales from the Crypt No. 1 ("ABC Chiller")

I don't know anything about these, and it's hard to find out anything online, especially about the Captain America comic - does anyone know when they date from?

They're from the mid-1950s when Anerican comics were not imported into the UK and L.Miller and other UK publishers produced loads of British reprints.

Marvel reprinted the original US Captain America comics in this hardback a few years ago:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MARVEL-MASTERWO ... asterworks

Thanks Lew.

Starscape, here's a scan of the cover - it has some tears running through the spine but otherwise is in pretty good shape - is this a rare issue then?

babington wrote:Thanks Lew.

Starscape, here's a scan of the cover - it has some tears running through the spine but otherwise is in pretty good shape - is this a rare issue then?

Very rare. Like starscape, I've never seen one either. In the 1950s Marvel revived their Captain America comic for three issues (the comic had been canceled at the end of the 1940s). Nos.76 to 78. Miller only reprinted one (calling theirs No.1, as it was the first UK Cap comic). That cover is from Captain America 77. More info here:

http://goldenagecomics.org/wordpress/20 ... e-smasher/

As you no doubt know, the American original was in colour. Miller also did two Human Torch reprint comics from the same era:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2008/ ... art-1.html

That 'Commie Smasher' Captain America character was ret-conned in the 1970s as a replacement Captain America who went mad.