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This is very interesting. From what I understand, when the strip was changed to Dilly Dream's Schooldays it was moved to the back cover and appeared in colour. I have the 1966 annual and that has 2 Dilly strips, but both are in black and white. They also appear to be by the original artist, so ...

I've lately become slightly obsessed with Dilly Dreem, who appeared in School Friend from 1950 to 1965. Art was by Dora Broderick, who may have been the writer as well. I haven't been able to turn up any information to confirm it yet.

Right now I'm looking for several things - any information on ...

I probably have a lot of those Tammy and Jintys as I have a huge collection of each. And while I'm not looking to sell them, I am in the process of scanning them to save them from being lost to the march of time. I'd be happy to share the scans I've done, if that would be of any use.

I've had some experience creating ebooks. I'd recommend anyone interested in going that route to grab a copy of Sigil. It's a free ebook creation program and is incredibly useful.

It's not actually that difficult to create ebooks that are every bit as professional looking as retail editions ...

but the human female is surely far more complicated, biologically speaking, than lizards and aphids. I can only imagine it happening in the real world at some time in the far distant future, and only then if there is no possibility whatsoever of copulation with a male.

Well, I said it wasn't far ...

Of course any society made up only of women that have not had access to any kind of immortality potion has its own built-in obsolescence.

Not so. They generally come up with some form of parthenogenisis fairly quickly. Either technologically or via nature. Which isn't even completely far-fetched ...

During the 1950s and '60s Hollywood brought out loads of schlocky films about all-female societies who get their heads completely turned when some beefcake comes along. Among them were 'Fire Maidens from Outer Space' and 'Mesa of Lost Women'.

Oh, you have no idea. I started building a list of ...

Thanks for all the suggestions. You're right, The Silent Three and stories like that don't really fit. Nor do stories set in a world that is nominally co-ed but the males always seem to be off-camera.

there are a few female evil masterminds trying to take over the world with their legions of female ...

I'm helping with a project about female-only societies and matriarchies in fiction and it made me wonder if these kinds of thing had turned up in British girls comics much. I couldn't think of any off the top of my head. Americans have the Amazons of Wonder Woman , but I can't think of any British ...

Regulars are what gives a comic its identity. The most successful comics have all had multiple regular character serials. It's always perplexed me why Misty had little beyond a cover girl.

I suppose it is just a cultural thing remember how women were glamorized in earlier hollywood movies.Then again glamorous women on comic cover stories probably did no harm where comic sales were concerned.

Well, except for sales to female comic readers. A particularly painful example was the Emma ...

The classic lost girls comic is the final issue of Tammy. One story was left hanging, missing its final episode, while others that were intended to carry over to a merged comic were never seen again. There's been some research to find if any of the stories showed up in foreign editions, but so far ...

That's why I emphasized "instead of buying the actual comics", so as not to include the ones who wouldn't. That said, we'll have to agree to disagree because I think many of them would buy the comics if that was the only option.
I accept that this is your opinion but you haven't cited anything to ...

As for statistics, I don't have any but I do remember the case of a notorious pirate whose website showed that some comics had been downloaded thousands of times. One being Black Panther, which was canceled because sales fell below 20,000 (or thereabouts). I'm sure the comic might have lasted a ...

That's your choice and if you're ok with it that's fine of course.

It's more a case of making the best of the inevitable, really.


Well, the subject of royalties never even entered my head because we don't receive royalties in British comics. (Some graphic novels are set up like that but not ...