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TwoHeadedBoy wrote:Took my Xmas vouchers to town today, with the intention of getting the Beano and Dandy annuals and the Viz book of adventure. All three of those were sold out in WH Smith's!
Sold my voucher to a friend (who got some magazines with it), and went down the road to Waterstone's instead. They had the Beano annual (£3.99), but not the other two, so got The Best of Wonder Warthog by Gilbert Shelton instead. Happy medium!
That's a beauty, right enough. The book is by Arnold Book Co. and reprints stories from the American co. Prize. Published in 1954, it might actually be reprints from the ongoing ABC comic of the same name, which, as I said contained Prize reprints. This book was cited in the UK anti horror campign. The Kirby cover is tasty, isn't it? Simon and Kirby, even?
I think it is Kirby, and the total page count is 164 according to the Grand Comics Database, which also lists all the sources for the reprinted stories. Here's a pic of that chunky spine...
babington wrote:I think it is Kirby, and the total page count is 164 according to the Grand Comics Database, which also lists all the sources for the reprinted stories. Here's a pic of that chunky spine...
Black Magic Album-a copy.JPG
Black Magic was one of the famous comics packaged by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the 1950s for Prize Comics. Yes, that's definitely a Simon and Kirby cover. Some strips were reprinted by DC Comics in the 1970s when they revived Black Magic for a short run. Strips have also appeared more recently in Titan's collection of Simon and Kirby Horror comics.
Amusing that those anti-horror comics prudes in the 1950s picked on that comic as it was one of the tamest pre-code horror comics of all!
What's also amusing is how in America, it was the right-wingers who were anti-horror comics as they were seen as corruptive, yet in the UK it was the left-wingers who were anti-horror comics, as they were seen as imposing American ideals on Britain.
TwoHeadedBoy wrote:What's also amusing is how in America, it was the right-wingers who were anti-horror comics as they were seen as corruptive, yet in the UK it was the left-wingers who were anti-horror comics, as they were seen as imposing American ideals on Britain.
Amused me, anyway.
I think prime mover Fredric Wertham is considered to have been on the left in general.
Latest Doctor Who Magazine which I am still reading.
Reading comics since 1970. My Current Regulars are: 2000 AD (1977-), Judge Dredd Megazine (1990-), Spaceship Away (2003-), Commando (2013-), Deadpool and Wolverine (2023-), Quantum (2023-), Fantastic Four (2025-).
TwoHeadedBoy wrote:What's also amusing is how in America, it was the right-wingers who were anti-horror comics as they were seen as corruptive, yet in the UK it was the left-wingers who were anti-horror comics, as they were seen as imposing American ideals on Britain.
Amused me, anyway.
I think prime mover Fredric Wertham is considered to have been on the left in general.
Interesting... Must be the accounts I've read of the whole thing being biased, clearly wanting to put the guy in as bad a light as possible. He meant well, certainly, but I don't think it should be any government-employed person's place to say what's right and what's wrong for people to consume on a cultural level.
Meanwhile, today I got volumes I-III of Larry Welz's Cherry Collection (got a good deal with some eBay-based haggling!)
stevezodiac wrote:Today I received a copy of Today magazine which I won on ebay for £8. I bought it for the back cover - a full page advert for Wham! no. 1
Ordered the first issue of Meanwhile as mentioned in Lew's blog. If I like it, I will subscribe.
Reading comics since 1970. My Current Regulars are: 2000 AD (1977-), Judge Dredd Megazine (1990-), Spaceship Away (2003-), Commando (2013-), Deadpool and Wolverine (2023-), Quantum (2023-), Fantastic Four (2025-).
