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Peter Gray wrote:i love seeing original comic art as well...see latest blog post

http://www.petergraycartoonsandcomics.b ... l-art.html

Reg Parlett's creepy Comix..theres cut out bits..tippex..and drawn in two halves...4x as big..

it will join my Cliff Hanger by Jack and Lew Stringer's Tom Thug original..;0)

I'm proud that my work is amongst such distinguished company Peter. The work of Reg and Jack was always a joy to behold. I wonder how many pages Reg drew over his long career? Must have been thousands, and all top quality stuff.

Whilst not a direct sighting of a comic, but with a comic connection:

I watched last Wednesday's "The Apprentice" about creating & selling a new flavour beer - and one team went to a "Kent" beer festival held in Putney - held at "The Bricklaters Arms" which is just round the corner, a few yards down to road of the 30th Century Comics shop no less.

It's a pub I visited after my last visit there - armed with a big bag of comics; they had all-Yorkshire beers on the bar as a theme.

I'm going to the 30th Century shop on Thursday hopefully...can't wait..

On my blog a few years back, I posted a screencap from the Benny Hill Show showing Benny reading an issue of the Dandy. I noted on the blog that I saw a sketch featuring two kids (one reading a Beano) from late in the show's run.

Finally, I have located the sketch, which originally aired on 5/4/89. Now for a test, can anyone identify which Beano the girl was reading.

blaing wrote:On my blog a few years back, I posted a screencap from the Benny Hill Show showing Benny reading an issue of the Dandy. I noted on the blog that I saw a sketch featuring two kids (one reading a Beano) from late in the show's run.

Finally, I have located the sketch, which originally aired on 5/4/89. Now for a test, can anyone identify which Beano the girl was reading.

It's the issue dated September 3rd 1988

big bad bri wrote:Just watching v for vendetta on blu ray & 27.13 mins in there us 2 beanos & 2 hotspurs on the wall. I dont know if its been mentioned so apologies if it has.

bit late, but here's the best i can cap, hard to see the covers (I don't have the film on blu-ray so it's not the best screenshot). The Beano masthead, with the curved logo over the blue segment, looks like a mid 60's maybe?

Ah..bit of detective work shows that the Hotspur comic 2nd from left is the 1st January 1971 issue, with Red Star Robinson on the cover

jakob1978 wrote:the Hotspur comic 2nd from left is the 1st January 1971 issue

Not quite, jakob. The issue shown is 637, dated January 1 1972. The first issue in 1971 was 585, dated January 2.

A woman on this afternoon's Four Rooms (C4) was trying to sell an original, signed illustration of Minnie the Minx by Jim Petrie, hoping one of the four dealers would offer her (a rather unrealistic) £1-2,000 for it. The dealers seem to be have been led to believe that the illustration is "by its creator."

It's repeated on 4Seven at 5pm and will presumably turn up on the 4OD website soon enough.

Huh, the average man on the street wouldn't know the difference between Jim Petrie and Leo Baxendale. Neither are household names. That art was worth hundreds at best, not thousands. Maybe not even that considering it's not a rarity.

Digifiend wrote:That art was worth hundreds at best, not thousands. Maybe not even that considering it's not a rarity.

You may well be right, Digi, with your rather wide valuation range, but it is always worth remembering that any item is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it. However, I must disagree with your point that the sketch isn't a rarity. Given its provenance, the exact opposite must be true.

Digifiend wrote:Huh, the average man on the street wouldn't know the difference between Jim Petrie and Leo Baxendale.

The dealers in the programme will sell to their clients, though, who'll be collectors.

here's some pictures of the sketch. The writing underneath says "Drawn by Jim for Sue, 1998 Dundee".

She sold it for £450 in the end

That's a lot of money!



love to own an original Jim Petrie sketch...But that is too much for me..£30 maybe.

I bought two original Kayhole kate strips by Alan Morley for £75 and £80 so I can consider tham a bargain. Phil Clarke still has some for £100 each.