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Perhaps even Forest Green could win the treble if they broke over 100 FFP rules.

Manzes Deptford High Street is my eel and pie house of choice, been a customer since the 1960s and it's the only one that doesn't put gravy in the pies. Sadly Goddards across the road closed a few years ago but I went in there on the final day for double pie and mash.

Alan Clark did the fanzine too.

I'm a big Ally Sloper fan/collector, and my main aim along with being able to own Half-Holiday #1 from 1884 which I am still looking for, has always been to own Judy volume 1 from 1867, which as any Sloper fan will know contains the first ever appearance of Alexander Sloper F.O.M. in a strip entitl...

My copy is a 36 page Beano sized magazine, humour and showbiz with lots of full page cartoons. Published in Fleet Street. I worked in Fleet Street for a while, my life's ambition. In the days of tinypic I could have added a few images but it's not so easy to add images nowadays.

I'm a big Ally Sloper fan/collector, and my main aim along with being able to own Half-Holiday #1 from 1884 which I am still looking for, has always been to own Judy volume 1 from 1867, which as any Sloper fan will know contains the first ever appearance of Alexander Sloper F.O.M. in a strip entitl...

I have a Daily Record with a, I think, four page tabloid sized Beano inside. I remember thinking it was strange as they are a rival publisher. I currently have a London Time Out magazine on ebay with a Beano insert of new material.

The signs were there when the Weekly News closed a few years ago after about 160 years of publication. Very sad. Their distribution is at fault as I always had trouble finding a copy and the same with Commando which you only find in the odd WH Smith store.

Just remembered that the BBC had their own version of Look-In called Beeb. I remember the sci-fi series Tripods was in it drawn by John Burns. I think I still have the first issue somewhere.

Off topic slightly but I was indexing a Wild West Picture Library this week and realised the story was exactly the same as the film Last Train From Gun Hill and that very film was on Film 4 the same day. I think the WWPL was Warrant for Murder and the last chapter was titled Last Train From Guthrie....

I started indexing those picture libraries onto the grand comics database and used the voice recorder function on my tablet to enter the first line of the story. But "giants of battle" was printed as "jars of basil". Not quite the same thing. Voice recorder obviously has a problem with south London ...

Yesterday and today I picked up 55 Wild West Picture Libraries and 18 Air Ace Picture Libraries for £1 each in Deptford flea market, all pre decimal issues.

I see that Kevin has died, there is some uncertainty as to when he passed but one source states 7 November. I have to confess I don't know much about his work as I'm firmly stuck in the 1970s and earlier as regards comics and never bothered with 2000AD but it's sad as he was only 69. I see he was bo...

I'm sure I have some strips by David Wright in some 50s or 60s Titbits magazines. Was very impressed by the artwork.

A small section about comics on the Footage Detectives just now on Talking Pictures TV. It's normally repeated early in the week but isn't this week but there is an older repeat Thursday morning so this one will be repeated sooner or later.