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A few updates to my Blimey! blog this week:
Vintage ads for comics of the early 20th Century:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -past.html
My tribute to Bill Ritchie:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -2010.html
Latest news on Commando:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... t-now.html
Mike Higgs' Sixties hero The Cloak makes a comeback:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -back.html
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Vintage ads for comics of the early 20th Century:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -past.html
My tribute to Bill Ritchie:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -2010.html
Latest news on Commando:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... t-now.html
Mike Higgs' Sixties hero The Cloak makes a comeback:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/01 ... -back.html
Lew
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I found this ad in a copy of the Daily Sketch from 4 June 1953. It was one of those overseas editions where a week's worth of a newspaper title were bound together in a new wraparound glossy cover and sold in foreign countries (hence the "overseas" bit, i'm quick like that). This was the Queen's wedding week which is probably why this set survived.
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When I was younger I used to think muffin the mule was a crime.
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This week on my blog, a look back at a comic rarity from 1971. Did anyone else here have this?:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/02 ... -1971.html
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http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/02 ... -1971.html
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Lew Stringer wrote:This week on my blog, a look back at a comic rarity from 1971. Did anyone else here have this?:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/02 ... -1971.html
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I did, when I was a little tot - I mentioned it on here a while back, on a 3D comics thread I think. It seemed quite magical at that tender age, and I still remember the excitement of it arriving in the post, and studying it for ages afterwards. I was quite fascinated by those blurry red-green pages. It's a fond early comic memory for me.
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You're right. I just checked and you mentioned it only last month. Sorry, I must have missed that.Raven wrote:Lew Stringer wrote:This week on my blog, a look back at a comic rarity from 1971. Did anyone else here have this?:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/02 ... -1971.html
Lew
I did, when I was a little tot - I mentioned it on here a while back, on a 3D comics thread I think.
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I don't know if you are aware, Lew, but I remember seeing in some 60s Fleetway comics they had a competition for readers to name the Sugar Puff bear. I remember the adverts and the song. I can sing practically every tv theme and advert from the 60s even though I haven't heard some for 40+ years.
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I didn't know that. I was a Sugar Smacks kid myself. They tasted better and had free badges of Captain Scarlet, Star Trek, and Doctor Who.stevezodiac wrote:I don't know if you are aware, Lew, but I remember seeing in some 60s Fleetway comics they had a competition for readers to name the Sugar Puff bear. I remember the adverts and the song. I can sing practically every tv theme and advert from the 60s even though I haven't heard some for 40+ years.
So "Jeremy" won the name contest?
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New blog post regarding facsimiles of classic comics, to help collectors identify reprints that are often sold as originals:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... miles.html
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http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/0 ... miles.html
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On my blog this week:
Easter comics of the past, with images from Radio Fun, Smash, Beano, and Buster:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04 ... -past.html
The final fate of Billy's Boots with artwork never seen in the UK:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04 ... boots.html
Easter comics of the past, with images from Radio Fun, Smash, Beano, and Buster:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04 ... -past.html
The final fate of Billy's Boots with artwork never seen in the UK:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.com/2010/04 ... boots.html
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I wonder if any other story's had alternative endings
I remember one episode of Gums (think it was in a B&MF special), he found a magic wishing area and wished for some new teeth. It would have been good if this was the final ending, however poor Gums lost his lovely new set, and had to have false ones again .
Perhaps Kid Kong could have been re-united with his dad (as well as his adopted granny potts)
Or maybe Strawbelly could have ending with a wedding of Fyffe Bannana and Sherry Trifle
Apologies for being in bizarre alternative universe mode
I remember one episode of Gums (think it was in a B&MF special), he found a magic wishing area and wished for some new teeth. It would have been good if this was the final ending, however poor Gums lost his lovely new set, and had to have false ones again .
Perhaps Kid Kong could have been re-united with his dad (as well as his adopted granny potts)
Or maybe Strawbelly could have ending with a wedding of Fyffe Bannana and Sherry Trifle
Apologies for being in bizarre alternative universe mode
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Re naming the Sugar Puff bear - here is an advert from Tiger dated 1 July 1961.