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- 06 Nov 2016, 20:22
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: **Ignore**
- Replies: 4
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Re: 2000AD - What If It Failed In The 70s or 80s...
No, it's inhaling all that old comic newsprint!
- 06 Nov 2016, 00:00
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: **Ignore**
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3000
Re: 2000AD - What If It Failed In The 70s or 80s...
You may have forgotten, but we pondered this last year, and generally seemed to think it would be Battle:
http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p ... 59&p=86470
http://comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.p ... 59&p=86470
- 14 Sep 2016, 20:21
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Can anyone identify this comic strip?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2503
Re: Can anyone identify this comic strip?
The last two enemies being twins may have come from a need to wrap the serial up quickly before the merger with Knockout at the end of June 1973.
- 14 Sep 2016, 18:24
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Can anyone identify this comic strip?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2503
Re: Can anyone identify this comic strip?
That's Revenge of the Puzzler from Whizzer and Chips, 1972-73. The bearded one was the Model-Man. The smiling one was Mr. Freeze.
There's a thread on the Puzzler serials here:
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... 148&t=5578&
There's a thread on the Puzzler serials here:
http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/forum/viewtop ... 148&t=5578&
- 29 Jul 2016, 07:33
- Forum: Dandy
- Topic: The dc thomson bumper fun book
- Replies: 41
- Views: 52249
Re: The dc thomson bumper fun book
The £233.76 may be an accidental mispricing.
- 28 Jul 2016, 21:57
- Forum: Dandy
- Topic: The dc thomson bumper fun book
- Replies: 41
- Views: 52249
Re: The dc thomson bumper fun book
There's one up at £15.00 + £2.85 p&p on eBay.
- 20 Jul 2016, 11:18
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
Ah, so it's literally quite similar to Lord of the Flies!
- 19 Jul 2016, 09:55
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
Thanks for those, ISpy. School For Survivors doesn't look that much different from the pre-ban fare, really. Is this a post-apocalyptic tale or an abandoned in the wilderness tale, or something similar?
- 18 Jul 2016, 22:41
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
Thanks for all those, ISpy, very good of you. The artwork samples in your first selection look much more like they're from a D. C. Thomson comic of the time; they don't seem to reflect IPC's usual contemporary standards or styles for adventure. Curious. Do you recall if School for Survivors had an i...
- 18 Jul 2016, 08:54
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
Thanks, ISpy. I'd be interested to hear about any interesting looking strips exclusive to the post-ban era.
- 17 Jul 2016, 21:23
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
Yes, I'm very familiar with the pre-ban material, ISPY. It's just the post-ban strips I hardly know anything about. I remember the bottle throwing being especially singled out.
Do you - or anybody else - know what happened to Blackjack at the end of his serial? Was his sight problem cured?
Do you - or anybody else - know what happened to Blackjack at the end of his serial? Was his sight problem cured?
- 16 Jul 2016, 11:12
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
It hardly set the world alight, yet it featured regular work by loads of Fleetway stalwarts like Ortiz, Cruz, Kennedy, Burns, Bradbury, Western, etc. at a time when the traditional boys' adventure comic was becoming an endangered species. That's what I suspected, and everyone still seemed to be on ...
- 15 Jul 2016, 22:58
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Re: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
Thanks for the reply, although this: The rest of the comic was above the D C Thomson output of the time, but it was also above the Fleetway output. ... makes it sound like it was quite good, if it was better than both? I was thinking about how a comic like, say, Speed tends to get dismissed (for bei...
- 15 Jul 2016, 21:13
- Forum: Retired IPC/Odhams/Fleetway titles
- Topic: Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 22574
Is the Post-Ban Action Underrated?
The standard line, of course, is that the comic returned on December 4th 1976 bowlderised, too tame to be interesting to the punk kids any more, just a traditional adventure title, a sell-out, etc. I was just wondering if anyone has actually read the post-ban issues, and if it's any good as a tradit...
- 29 Jun 2016, 23:23
- Forum: General comics discussion
- Topic: Comics on TV
- Replies: 763
- Views: 276296
Re: Comics on TV
The comic is Pippin, which featured both Joe and Sooty and Sweep - on pages next to each other - in 1967.