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Some treats for you this weekend to reward your patience. Firstly, four new additions to the Page by Page. The first issue of Buster & Cor!! from 22nd June 1974 is summarised online, along with the 26h April 1975, 6th July 1985 & 3rd August 1985.

This brings the Page by Page listing to 62% of every Buster ever released now up and available for basic checking of the contents.

Elsewhere, the highlight of this year has to be our Buster Stars Interviews and the long awaited arrival of the Ron Clark Interview.

Ron joined Amalgamated Press just as Fleetway were taking over and he wrote the script for the first Buster story in issue 1. Ron was also responsible for finding the talents of Angel Nadal as well as giving advice to a young office boy called Bill Titcombe.

The whole life story came in at over fifty pages, and it's been a fascinating experience reading through it, and then trying to pick out the best bits. My huge thanks for Chris Clark and the family for allowing us to share Ron's tales with you all. Sadly Ron died last year, but his funeral was well attended by the likes of Ginger Gibbon, Jack Stokes and Bill Titcombe amongst others.

On the subject of Bill, I'm informed that sadly his wife died earlier this year, and he himself is currently being treated for Cancer. Our thoughts and best wishes are with you, Bill - and hopefully you'll make a speedy recovery.

Right, that's all I've got for now, time to get back to the sofa and watch the end of quite an interesting Brazilian Grand Prix - it's no wonder I get very little work done with so much TV to watch!

Check out all the latest updates at www.bustercomic.co.uk

I angrily texted Radio Five a couple of times yesterday asking why they kept interrupting the football commentary to go to the Grand Prix. I opined that nobody in their right mind would have any interest in cars going round a track apart from a few yuppies. Told them I was retuning to Talk Sport which I did. I hate formula 1. Its just blokes driving cars.

I've really enjoyed reading these interviews its facinating hearing behind the scenes..

Nice seeing the new updates..

stevezodiac wrote:I angrily texted Radio Five a couple of times yesterday asking why they kept interrupting the football commentary to go to the Grand Prix. I opined that nobody in their right mind would have any interest in cars going round a track apart from a few yuppies. Told them I was retuning to Talk Sport which I did. I hate formula 1. Its just blokes driving cars.

Are you sure that's in the right thread? Looks After all, we have threads for both football and F1...

stevezodiac wrote:I angrily texted Radio Five a couple of times yesterday asking why they kept interrupting the football commentary to go to the Grand Prix. I opined that nobody in their right mind would have any interest in cars going round a track apart from a few yuppies. Told them I was retuning to Talk Sport which I did. I hate formula 1. Its just blokes driving cars.

My view is that Football is just a bunch of blokes kicking a bag of air up and down a field - never understood Football and never will.

Formula One, however, where men drive round and round in circles polluting the atmosphere with noxious gases and contributing to the Greenhouse effect which will inevitably destory the planet, makes perfect sense.

As does snooker, where men hit balls into pockets only to have a referee put them back again.

Anywho, back on topic, I'm pleased the interviews have been interesting - I thoroughly enjoyed discovering things I never knew, and for the first time we've truly got content that covers the whole Forty year run.

I may well continue with this into next year, it's just a case of tracking down the stars and writing the questions!