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I'm looking for information on Lionel Morgan , in the mid-1950's head(?) of the design and lettering department of the Amalgamated Press. He worked on the nursery comics Playhour and Jack&Jill , and the Sexton Blake Library , e.g. No. 397 Murder Down Below (January 1958), written by James Stagg. Cov...

UPDATE (02/01/2012): Des Shaw, editor of Spaceship Away , kindly sent me a wonderful scan. Thank you very much, Des! One to go: I am still looking for Mickey Mouse Weekly No 752 for 9 October 1954. I do not need an actual copy, but a hi-res scan from the weekly feature “Something to Make” would be ...

I finally managed to get a (fuzzy) pdf-file from the British Library. But I still hope for a better hi-res scan... So, who is able to help me with this??

Hi Toff,

Are there any early Playhour weeklies (e.g. #138-140 from 1957) in your collection?

John

I am looking for Mickey Mouse Weekly No 752 for 9 October 1954. I do not need an actual copy, but a hi-res scan from the weekly feature “Something to Make” would be very helpful. Unfortunately I do not know which page, but it was part of the b/w editorial page at the end of the issue. Please send me...

Where did I go wrong? Was my question offensive? Or is really no-one able to help me out?? SO AGAIN, PLEASE: I am looking for Express Weekly No 132 for 30 March 1957. I do not need an actual copy, but a hi-res scan from the weekly educational feature "Nature was First" on page 6 would be very helpfu...

Thank you for sharing the first episode and the publication details. I had no idea the story was about Steve Larrabee. He starred in some older strips, from another publisher, as well. The only information I had came from the Embleton-biography by Wright & Ashford (BMC-216, 2002). I had to do with p...

Hi Phil,

Thanks for this wonderful page. Another Embleton-strip I knew nothing about...

BTW: please read your e-mail @aol.com.

Best,

John

Can anyone please share a page of 'The Trek of The Homeless Ones' with me and the rest of the world? This strip by Ron Embleton appeared in The Rover, No. 1659-1670, from 1957. I have never seen this, and I wonder what it is about. Any details (i.e. dates of issues) will be appreciated. Thanks ! John

Hi Phil,

Yes, I did manage to open and admire the scan you sent me. Thanks!!
Now please read the PM I sent you first.

Best,
John

Just posted a scan of a very early Wulf the Briton-page by Embleton in the topic 'Ron Embleton and Wulf the Briton'.

John

Just the other day I found a scan of an original and very early page from Wulf the Briton by Embleton. It's on compalcomics.com, in their summer catalogue 2009. The description: "106. Wulf The Briton original artwork by Ron Embleton for Express Weekly 155 (1957) Wulf proves himself to the warrior tr...

More information on Express Weekly can be found in Norman Wright's highly recommended article about this comic in Book and Magazine Collector No. 67 (October, 1989).

John

Hi Peter, Is there anything by Basil Reynolds in no. 2? He revisited his old artwork: -"Skit, Skat and the Captain", which he drew for Mickey Mouse Weekly from the very first issue in 1936 (unfortunately I do not know when this b/w-series was terminated); -"Wonders of the wild" looks just like his w...

Hi Starboy, According to Masters of Fun and Thrills by Norman Wright and David Ashford Embleton painted two series of sex-and-satire strips for Penthouse : - Oh, Wicked Wanda (1973-1981); - Sweet Chastity (1981-1988). You'll find some pages on the website of the Illustration Art Gallery (as long as ...