Comics UK

I don't know if anyone has said this anywhere else on the site.

Presently I store most of my comics in ottomans- are good dry sealed and good dark places to safely (so far) sores comics all in plastic bags and boards. I've got many ottomans stacked up in a box room in my flat.

The think is I've ...

These are the first TV21 I've bought, have always got the reprints, but got these 2 bargains yesterday.

Curiosity grew thanks to a few e bay online views inside said comics.

The interesting things on buying actual originals is seeing the other support strips and also the letters pages and old ...

I think someone else own's the rights to all TV Comic's outputs. There should be re-issues and re-prints of TV Comic's assorted strips but I don't think there have been any far as I know.

Even though most of the Artwork for TV Comic looks cheap and nowhere near the high quality of TV21's, Countdown ...

I also took another butcher's through my Sandie collection:

"Jeanie And Her Uncle Meanie" was definitely NOT drawn by Robert McGillivray when it first started. The artist's work looks familiar and has illustrated many other girls' comic strips I'm sure, but can't name him. Is a very good artist I ...

I finally found some time to sift through my comics and update by got lists (following a few cases of snap! - ie duplications) and checked those June comics to confirm:

John Richardson's first "Lucky's Living Doll" was in the 30/09/72 edition of June.

One interruption during JR's tenure was in the ...

Agree Department S has a wicked theme one of the best ever.

I saw said episode and also in it, two other familiar faces: Colin Gordon, a recurring character in The Baron, Number Two in The Prisoner twice (the latter due to illness of intended lead), in Doctor Who's the Faceless Ones, a regular in ...

Agree with what was said after Markstein left the show went downhill badly, became more a Pat McGoohan vanity project - eg he liked Westerns so a pointless and irrelevant Western themed episode happened (Living In Harmony). Markstein had some control over PMs urges perhaps.

When Grade pulled the ...

I did check through my "Tv's Greatest Hits" book from 1993 (always a fascinating read) and The Prisoner only had one episode, its first, in the TV Top 20, propping up at no.20.

Perhaps it was popular but perhaps not enough for Lew Grade. But having said that most ITC shows had varied scheduling ...

In fact I'll add that I did have those editions of SIG back during 1986. I got them from a now long gone but much missed comic shop on Cowley Road in Oxford. Shop had large image of Halo Jones painted on its window. It had many editions/back copies of said fanzine plus many others as well.

This was ...

I'd never heard of the said series until I chanced upon a Network DVD of the series at a car boot sale.

Whilst I'm not a big historical drama fan, I thoroughly enjoyed the series. Was shown in 1970, and had the slightly more aggressive horn ending jingle for Thames TV logo at that time.

Strip for ...

I heard years ago in a documentary that "Danger Man" started being made in colour (2 episodes were" when McGoohan pulled the plug bored with the role and feeling the show was tired and he had a pet project on his mind.

The Portmerion site in Wales had been featured in a episode (or two?) of earlier ...

Can't say I'm a fan of westerns, but I have surprised myself by enjoying some of the films shown and also the repeats of "Bonanza".

As regards "Have Gun Will Travel" I do have some (bootleg?) DVDs I got for a bargain at a car-boot sale in Bolton years ago (it is no longer held there sad to say, and ...

I had to re-tune my telly to get Rewind but got it, well worth it.

First thing I saw, was forgotten series which I remember shown it first came out - "Mysterious Tales" . These were first shown in early 1982, the first show for the ITV network from newly established ITV franchise TSW (replaced ...

I looked through a 1980 Look-In at Manchester Comic Fair yesterday, but found a page torn-out so no sale there, I prefer complete.

I did look through another pile of Look-In and pulled a 1980 gap filler in collection out. Got distracted by something else and then when I decided to got for the rest ...

A trip to Manchester netted a varied haul. First from the Comic Fair:
A 1980 Look-In
A 1977 Radio Times
Crikey! Magazine no.2
2 2068 (1968) TV21s (before disastrous TV Tornado merger)
A 1985 and an 86 edition of S.I.G> Gerry Anderson fanzine
1965 Fireball XL5 annual
Filmed In Supermarionation book ...