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Thanks Jim they sure are, and at £10 each I may have got myself a bargain too.

I have put in via the Anderson website a pre-order for volume 1 of the Stingray comic anthology. 15 minutes after the message arrived I put that order in, I'm not missing out on that one. Got myself a lucky spin 10% off ...

Somebody recently told me the bookshop Broadhurst's in Southport had a secret comic room, only for a few days later came the announcement that the shop was closing down forever, with its electric wiring condemned. Shame as I did buy some good books from there, including a near mint copy of the 1967 ...

Nice one, Steve! I also did send information about "Smash" comic, mentioning the Ken Reid strips (I have both volumes of the compilations of these ace strips. Reid's become my favourite humour artist), and perhaps gave too much detail? Anyway it's great that many others get the chance to get read ...

Does anyone know which number on Freeview the Rewind Channel is going to be on? Can't wait.

I was also interested to notice some episodes of "Hancock" are being shown, which I presume are the series he did on for ATV, on ITV. I have seen a couple of these on you tube, and OK it's not Hancock at his ...

Another comic on Tv sighting came on last Saturday night on TPTV Freeview 82 - in an episode of "Budgie" entitles "King For A Day", I noticed Charlie Endell's chief henchman Laughing Spam Fritter had a copy of the Dandy sticking out of his pocket which Charlie asked him to remove as it "lowered the ...

A few nights ago I caught by accident a Benny Hill compilation (all of his stuff now very dated) on Freeview 71. It featured his later years sketches, featuring the children of former Hills' Angels Dancers. In one sketch one of the kids is seen reading a copy of The Beano whilst asking another kid ...

Almost forgot: had no luck locating the Fireball XL5 Comic Anthology so far.

I have mentioned earlier I did recently get first 2 volumes of TV21 reprints books from 2009, so a nice stop-gap find for the meantime.

On the most recent edition of The Footage Detectives (25 August) the TV Comic's World Cup Willie strip got referenced, with copy of one of the strips shown on screen.

TV Comic did get refenced on one other edition I remember, with one of the later editions got looked through and Noel and Mike ...

As for the Gerry Anderson revivals on audio and computer animated:

I'm not that into audio adventures, so I can't really comment.
Have mixed feelings on the Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds revivals: It's good that there are more female characters and existing ones are given more to do. however ...

Hmm think I over-egged the pudding on my ideas for a revamped Fireball.

Thanks for your compliments Jim.

I do a fair bit of writing, largely on my experiences of Autism, and have read some out when I'm not contributing my experiences at meetings or when giving Oliver McGowan training. Many people ...

On the subject of conditions:

I remember once talking with a dealer at Manchester Comic Fair who was frustrated as a comic he had taken the trouble to source for collector was rejected over its condition. I commented that there's a "beggars can't be choosers" situation if there's a comic you really ...

I got reminded of something that caused me nightmares via a film shown on TPTV: "They made Me A Fugitive".

Many years ago I once read about and saw pictures of a 1950s road safety campaign poster saying "Keep Death Off The Road - Carelessness Kills". The poster depicted a white stone faced lady in ...

I've recently made a couple of visits to the fantastic Bygone Times in Eccleston near Chorley and Leyland. In there I netting a bargain 1974 Schoolfriend Annual (replaces the one I've got with loose pages), plus the first two volumes of Century 21 collection of reprints from TV21 comics (which came ...

I haven't got Sky nor could afford to buy it right now (especially as I'm still collecting comic and am getting some new glasses), so I will have to wait and hope for when it eventually reached Freeview.

I had a glance at the website, and looked at the schedules, are some great stuff on there. I'd ...

Nice one Steve!

Great pieces of information - those stickers may have been before my (aware) time and I've never read or heard anything about these on the social history I love to analyse. Well done!

I watched that edition of The Footage Detectives on TPTV Encore as when it was first shown I fell ...