Comics UK

All mentions of John Richardson on my blog... https://boysadventurecomics.blogspot.com/search/label/John%20Richardson Thanks for posting the link. I enjoyed his letter to SSI News. I was also interested in the post about "Chill", as this is by some way the most recent piece of his art that I've see...

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15 Jul 2021, 21:55

John Richardson's stint as artist for the Leopardman in Buster began 5 June 1982 and ended 16 October 1982.

Thanks, Tammyfan, I've amended the latest list above.

A new one to me, but it seems it did exist.

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It certainly looks like Tony Higham to me, for what it's worth. A definite identification may be difficult if the strip was unpublished. Higham did a lot of work for UK girls' comics, but I've never seen a signature, nor come across any personal info about his life. Maybe David Roach could help? He ...

I've not come across this story, either in Bunty or any other girls' comic. I see that there was a comic book version of the original Parent Trap movie, produced in the USA by Dell Comics. Probably a dumb suggestion, but could this possibly be what you had in mind? https://mydreamsofdisney.com/paren...

You may know about this one already, but he did a series called Alice in Spaceland for Princess, which ran for the better part of a year during 1965/66. This sample is two pages from a story in the Princess Gift Book 1967, partly because it has a credit, partly because the Princesses of that period ...

I didn’t know Colin personally, and had no contact with him bar one or two friendly exchanges on this forum, but I’m one of many who has benefitted from his huge knowledge of comics, and his generosity in sharing that knowledge on this forum and elsewhere. Please pass on my thanks and best wishes.

What I had in mind was not so much stories about mischievous trouble-maker doubles as those where the double tries to replace the heroine, taking over her life and depriving her of her identity. The Mandy Annual story is one example of this. This situation is still not strictly possession, but can h...

Another kind of evil influence theme which may be worth looking at is the doppelgänger story. This isn’t strictly possession, but it has a similar effect, in that the heroine is acting evilly (in the person of her double) without being aware of it or able to control it. There are probably quite a fe...

Another one which may be worth mentioning is "The Strange Ones", about three alien girls who take over a ballet school and its local town. You probably know this, Hypnojoo, from its appearance in Spellbound, but I see that it was originally published in Diana in 1964, which must make it one of the e...

This may not be exactly what you are looking for, but possession/hypnosis was a fairly regular theme in ballet stories – evil Svengalis who hypnotise dancers for their own ends, shoes which won’t let the wearer stop dancing and so on. I’m struggling to come up with a really distinctive early example...

You may know about this already, but if you haven’t seen it you might find it worth looking at the advice of 30th Century Comics on storage: https://30thcenturycomics.co.uk/comic-storage/ Another point may be worth considering. I’m no expert on this topic, but the worst deterioration problem that I’...

I can do the penultimate episode, 28 November 1981, if that's of use.

I'm afraid I don't have the final strip, but I see that Jenni Scott does have that issue, so the 29 September date seems to be confirmed. Here's the episode from 28 July 1973, which has a nice juicy villain in Tom Kerr's inimitable style. https://i.imgur.com/2dNU5GE.jpg https://i.imgur.com/u51d2vQ.j...

Happy to send you a copy, Byngga, if you will PM me your email address.