Comics UK

Bits and bobs from all over this week. Ebay, an auction house in Reading and bookshops in Manchester and Aberdeen:

The Magnet Library, No 1, Volume 1, February 1908 - #1 of 1683 issues!
The Greyfriars Herald (New Series), No 1, November 1, 1919 & No 2
Buster Adventure Library #1 Dateline for Danger (IPC) - 1966
Kid Colt Outlaw #1 - Thorpe and Porter (1954).
Top Secret Picture Library #1 - IPC 1974
Wildcat #1 (Fleetway) - 1988 with poster
Flash Gordon #1, World Adventure Library - Adrift in Space - 1967 (Still need Mandrake, The Phantom and Bonanza WAL #1s)
Chilling Tales of Horror (Portman) #1 - 1979
Super Mag #1 - Walt Disney's The Flight of the White Stallions (Young World) - 1964
Two more Vulcans, still need a few more for the set and Wizard #51 and #52 1971 to complete the first hundred which I'm currently reading.

Busy week!

Had a day out in Manchester on Friday, and came back £23 lighter and with this lot:

-The new issue of Mad (mostly awful nowadays but worth the £3.25 for Tom Bunk's double page spread of madness)
-Mad: Cover to Cover (the first 400 covers with lots of fancy background info, very nice)
-Dandy Beano: The First Fifty Years (got nearly all the Dandy Beano books, took me a LONG while to finally get this one!)
-The Beezer No.1702
-Smut No.30
-Blag No.3
-Kack No.1
-Zit No.57
-Viz No.62

In the flea market on Saturday I picked up three overstreet price guides 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15 all at 50p each. Last one was near mint. Shame I paid full price for it last year. Also got graphic novel the OMAC project containing issues 1-6 and wonder woman 219. Also 50p.

I've had a very busy week all over this week from Ebay and 30th Century with loads of great purchases:

Astonishing Stories #1 Class - 1965
Black Fury #1 - WDL - 1955
Blazing Comics #1 - Streamline - 1950??
Bullet #71 - That's every issue up to 112 now.....getting there!
Captain Video #1 - Miller 1951
Crack Action #1 - Archer 1950
87th Precinct #1 1962 T&P
Frankenstein #1 1963 Top Sellers
Little Aspirin #1 - Streamline 1950
Outlaws #1 - Streamline - 1955
Race for the moon #1 – Thorpe/Porter - 1959
Sam Hill #1 - Thorpe/Porter - 1952
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger #1 - General Books 1977
Valiant Summer Special 1976 - my 4th one....still a few to go
War comics #1 - Streamline - 1951
Battle Cry #1 - Streamline - 1953
Flash Gordon #1 L, Miller - 1962
Justice Traps the Guilty #1 - 1965
Spiderman + Zoids #1 with gift - 1988
PLUS 160 Commando comics to fill some gaps and give me some issues to use in swaps.

Phew! One big purchase possible on Friday but otherwise, I've pretty much exhausted my sources so back to concentrating on reading what I've bought and selling duplicates to replenish my comic budget!
Then again, there's always Ebay on the weekend.......

Red Dagger 24+25 - so that just leaves 2 issues to get, nearly there!

Sunny day at 2 carboots this morning one being free and the other 20p for senior citizens.
Not much in the way of comics on view.
I just got -
THE BLACK HOLE ANNUAL 1981-------£1
and three fridge magnets one of which contains DELL comic cover art.
Apart from those ,for nostalgic reading got THE HORNBY GAUGE 0 SYSTEM with lots of colour pictures of clockwork train sets and b/w photo's of the factory making them, should be an interesting read.
75 years of THE FLASH was available in hardback at another stall but the chap wanted £10 for it,which was not a starting price I could even think of negotiating from,£3 being more my upper limit.

Went to get my midweek fix of comics.
got--
DC THE WARLORD 1981-------£1
DC SWORD OF THE ATOM 1984------£1
On the way home thought I would look in at a charity shop where books are 10p
I was a couple of minutes late because some chap was sorting through a box of annuals and had put a number on one side.I noticed he had Beryl the Peril annual which I would also have chosen,I don't know what others he had picked out but nothing that was left was of interest to me so I decided to look through the adult books and I found----
BATMAN GRAPHIC NOVEL Eaglemoss collection.2015-------10p
SUPERMAN GRAPHIC NOVEL Eaglemoss collection.2015-----10p
These were as new with subscription leaflets still inside.
At first impressions I am slightly put off by some of the frantic artwork but I will see how reading them goes and whether I can get used to the newer versions of these super heroes.

In my opinion 'Frantic' is the perfect word to describe a lot of modern American artwork! Not that some of it isn't well drawn, but I really miss the more sedate storytelling of the artists I grew up with.

Bought 10 Commandos from Ebay including the only cover that I know that has been done by Jim Watson.

I also went a little mad and bought the book The Art of Denis McLoughlin.

And here is the cover for Rogue Sub

Bought the trade collection of Red Thorn (DC comic written by an acquaintance, David Baillie). It was good (and beautifully drawn) but it felt kind of weird to be reading it as a trade rather than individual issues - the pacing felt a bit fast, as if things were happening which hadn't been given enough space to develop. Not sure that I can articulate it that well! I enjoyed it but wasn't entranced by it.

From ebay, TV Picture Stories Highway Patrol #28 - photo cover of Broderick Crawford and ifc photo of Crawford both from the tv show, (10-4). And TPL #164, Claude Duval - a nice Brock cover and Steve Chapman interior art.

Today I bought a copy of the good-looking "Boys' Ranch" no. 2, published in Melbourne by Gordon and Gotch, October 1955. I think it reprints a Simon and Kirby "Kid Cowboys" strip, though I don't know which issue yet.

That's a nice find, babington. I've had a look on some sites for that cover but can't find it. It doesn't seem to be one of the Harvey covers, at least according to GCD, so, any chance you could let us all know what you find out about it, please?

Quiet week, probably because I love the Olympics!

Bonanza #1 Top Sellers 1970 and Tarzan of the Apes #1 T&P 1971.

Should be a quiet weekend on the comic buying front as well as the footie season starts!

Got a few `Back-up` Sparky's! Chap selling lots of them recently on E.bay. Blaing (Bruce) won some too!