Comics UK

Would Captain Scarlet count? He's "indestructible" and's been in plenty of comics.

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Whoops, just noticed Kollektiboolz [sorry for the spelling, it's past my bedtime] mentioned him on the first page

Just back from the Golden Orbit comic fair in Liverpool... Mostly just boxes and boxes of Marvel and DC stuff as usual, but I did find a few bits at least... -Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters #4 -Patty Cake #1 (described by a critic's review on the cover as "Ren & Stimpy meets Peanuts" - w...

In this morning's post:

-Big Comic Fortnightly Holiday Special 1992 (this thing's HUGE!)
-The X Flies: Bug Hunt (I love the X Files, and I love parody comics, so this could be good)
-Boffo Laffs No.1 (with fancy hologram cover)

This month's Viz (Tinribs is a winner this issue!)

and

DV8: Neighborhood Threat (by Warren Ellis) - Can't stand superhero stuff usually (even "anti-hero" stuff like these), but I liked it when I was 17 and it was going cheap in a charity shop (not unlike a budgie) so why not...

I didn't even know there was a comics laureate

Not so much bought but gifted to me by people over the last week:

Viz - The Sausage Sandwich (already have this one but it was a nice gesture)
The Beezer No. 1640 (1987)
The Beano No. 2341, 2342, 2343, 2348, 2354, 2358, 2373 and 2374 (1987-1988)

Not bad for free

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Yeah, I've been following that for a long time, some fantastic stuff you're digging up there.

Marvel to me as a kid meant the Ren & Stimpy, Beavis & Butt-Head and Mighty Max comics, loved those things - naturally the younger me had no idea they were reprints, guessing he wouldn't care either. Each issue of those usually had the equivalent of two US issues included, and a LOT less adverts too...

I've changed layout.. It does make the inside of the annual so dull.. artists should do fresh stuff for the annual...do more unusual stuff..poster pages...play with layout...go out of character a bit..have some fun.. Have you seen the Beano annual in shop it has a new Beano logo rounded letters.. A...

Interesting, thanks for that - it's definitely one I'll be on the lookout for!

Lothar's the Phantom now? So who's going to do Mandrake's dishes?!?

I'm sure it's a reprint of the American Marvel series, which drew together the King characters, Phantom, Mandrake and Flash Gordon. Not my favourite version of The Ghost Who Walks by far. Yeah, I went through a phase of carrying a rope over my left shoulder, due to a mild obsession with Lothar :lol:

Huh, didn't know there was a Defenders of the Earth comic - loved that cartoon as a kid.

Will there ever be a collected Combat Colin? Or have I missed that one?

Good to hear - loads of Simon Thorpe's best bits are in that book, a true treasure trove of smut