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bustercomic wrote:Yay - there are now 6 copies on the track-o-meter!

Thanks Lew for that update, just out of interest, where is your neck of the woods?

Curiously, a couple of Valiant strips are in the mix too: Baxendale's Bluebottle and Basher, and Nadal's Blarney Bluffer because they were reprinted in Buster during this period.

The special features a selection of adventure strips as well, which is fair and balanced considering Buster contained a variety of content for many years. Excellent material, featuring Joe Colquhoun's Sammy Brewster's Secret Ski-Board Squad, Mike Western's Leopard from Lime Street, Solano Lopez' Pete's Pocket Army, and John Stokes' Marney the Fox.

It's a great mixture, showcasing what a strong comic Buster was in this period. Numerous funnies include pages from Leo Baxendale (Clever Dick, Snooper), Ken Reid (Faceache, Martha's Monster Make-Up), Reg Parlett (Buster, Rent-A-Ghost, Kid Gloves), Mike Lacey (Val's Vanishing Cream, X-Ray Specs) and more.

Peter Gray wrote:

Jonny Whizz wrote:Congratulations Peter. 2000 posts is an impressive achievement, which only yourself and Lew have reached.

I'm unlikely to get the Buster special, because I'm not really familiar with the characters. The only issue of Buster I've got is from 1998, which contains mostly reprints of the Whizzer & Chips gang, with a few others like Tom Thug (again reprint), though essentially everything except the Buster strip is reprints. Buster ended before I got into comics unfortunately.

Digifiend wrote: I noticed that several strips were drawn by Tom Paterson (must be very early in his career) and one of them (Crowjak) was even signed.

Peter Gray wrote:Well drumroll....

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