Comics UK

People say never meet your heroes and I must admit that Shaqui is one of my heroes.
In reality we have just mailed a few times and he has been a thoroughly nice bloke.
He has sent me a couple of things that I will never share.
Very nice guy, badly treated.

So basically Shaqui saved the art from Look -in that was lost at great personal expense.
Was ripped off big time by Rebellion.
This is why it will never be published.
And I don't blame him.
This guy has been through the wringer and treated terribly.
If I win the lottery I will attempt to buy it from ...

I recently employed a new Chef and he also turned out to be a comics fanatic with a great collection.
He kindly gave me some last week.
Secret Wars issue 4.
Lots of Star Trek Next Generation DC series.
Hulk 181 facsimilie.
Superman 1979 UK annual.
And lots more that I am slowly smuggling home as my ...

STORY 10: "Dorga of the Dykes"
WRITER: Angus Allan
ARTIST: Mike Noble
ISSUES: 19 - 23 (1972)

For their parts in a local pageant, Dora, Steve and Ron have come up with an historical display.
Steve plays bowman rider "Dorga of the Dykes" and Ron and Lewis put on a comical motorbike joust.
Steve is ...

STORY 5: "The Super - Save!"
STORY: ANGUS ALLAN
ARTIST: UNKNOWN
ISSUES: 29 - 31 (1971)

Jimmy Hill, ex professional football star and TV pundit introduces this story.

Soccer - mad Sally Grant discovers that Dave Byrant, the Carford City Goalie, has lost his confidence following a minor injury ...

I am looking for a story in the DC comic series "Ghosts" about a psychic woman who kills her husband because he isn't psychic. When their son develops psychic powers and Dad's ghost appears to him, trying to warn him, she tries to have the boy committed. The ghost tricks her into an admission of ...

On that subject
R.I.P. Michael Keating

as for Avon smiling.....
Paul Darrow started doing this smiley cynical thing in series 1 and it ends so many episodes of series 4 !!!!
Either way, absolutely brilliant series and I started re watching it all a few weeks ago and whilst the special effects can be terrible and sometimes incredible, the ...

Loved Blake 7 as a kid. I know a reboot was in the pipeline a while back before Terry Nation's untimely death. It'll be interesting to see who's cast and will it be faithful to the original series.


I would love it to follow on from the ending of series 4 but expect it to be more of a ...

KIM STEVENS IS THE WRITER OF THIS CHRONOLOGY FROM THIS POINT:
Many thanks to Kim for kind permission to reprint her episode guide.

18/3/72 - No.12 to 25/3/72 - No.13
Blakey confiscates a horror magazine when he finds Stan and Jack reading it instead of working. To get their own back, the pair ...

STORY 16: " The Enforcer"
ISSUES: 19 - 23 (1972)
WRITER: ANGUS ALLAN
ARTIST: UNKNOWN

Passing through the time barrier, Liz Skinner and Simon Randall arrive on an unknown planet policed by the forces of a tyrant known as "The Enforcer".
We have come to the point in the strip where even Simon ...

STORY 19: " The Lost City"
ISSUES: 9 - 21 (1979)
NB: An eleven part story, not thirteen, as issues 16/17 and 18/19 are combined.
STORY: ANGUS ALLAN
ART: JOHN BOLTON

Posing as an archaeologist determined to find the lost city of the Jackal Kings, Jamie is sent to Djeb-Al-Qurta , a town on the edge ...

STORY 3: "Coryza"
ISSUES: 2 - 4 (1972)

When an exasperated Doctor tells Peter Craven he's got Coryza- a disease for which there is no known cure- the Fenn Street Gang rallies around.
Dennis Dunstable gives Peter £50 from a premium bond win 2 to brighten up his last lonely days"...

Cheers Sir !!!

A 50p pick up of Avengers Weekly No.8 (1973) that immediately sent me back to being 8 years old again. The first issue was my introduction to Marvel and each issue offered a tantalising glimpse of other comics and characters that I just had to know more about.


A brilliant bargain !!!
I ...