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Issue 268 had some stickers as a free gift.

Asterix and the Chariot Race.

Phoenix wrote: Regarding the link between the unbound reprints and D C Thomson Firsts, the point didn't need repeating as I made it here last week.

Well excuse me for not hanging on your every word.

I don't have a copy but I worked at the Vintage Magazine Shop when the reprints were produced by the shop's owner. IIRC they were in fact unbound extra copies of the individual sections of the D C Thomson Firsts book that Danny published. From your pictures I would confidently state that your comic ...

I don't remember reading any nursery comics but I might well have done. TV21 is the first one I remember getting - issue 90 (October 1966) which came with a free Thunderbirds cap. I was three and a half. We were living in Wales at the time and each week my Mum would give my copy to my cousin down th...

My first thought on seeing the artwork was that it looks like Matt Marriot's Tony Weare. I know he did some work for Look and Learn and as this is based on a true story it might have come from there. Just a guess - I'm sure someone more knowledgeable than me will be along shortly!

The Spectacular Adventures of Willie Bunk ran in Whizzer and Chips from the first issue (dated 18th October 1969) until the issue dated 26th December 1970. The use of "spectacular" in the title is a play on "spectacles" (glasses - apologies if I'm stating the obvious!). As you can see, they used col...

Bobby of the Blues appeared in the first issue of Scorcher in January 1970.

chrisb wrote:Is the artist Doug Maxted?

Certainly looks like it to me.

I started reading Valiant in 1969 which, in hindsight, was probably just when it was starting to decline a bit. I think the mergers with Smash! and TV21 weakened it further but I didn't mind them too much at the time. I hated the merger with Lion and it was never the same for me after that. Looking ...

It was written and drawn by Byrne and he was paid his full page rate as an artist for that sequence.

You're right Phil, it's "The Man Called 39" which began in the first combined issue of Valiant and Knockout. Those particular pages are from the issue dated 16th march 1963.

Thanks to both of you. I thought it looked like Campion but I wasn't sure.

And thanks for the kind words Phil.

I'm featuring a Typhoon Tracy story from Hurricane on my Art of Diving blog. I always try to name the artists where possible so can anyone tell me who drew the strip in issues 55 - 61 (13th March - 24th April 1965)? Any help will be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Robbie

I'd like to know who the artist is too. I may be going crazy but something about the faces of the two defenders says Barry Smith to me.