Comics UK

In the late 19th to early 20th century, it was apparently quite common for magazines, comics and story papers to be bound into books by their owners (some, such as Chums and Boys' Own, were later sold as books by the publishers). I suppose this numbering helped readers to get their issues in order f...

I don't mind things being "rebooted" if they're done well (and as Dangermouse was kind of timeless, this might simply be new stories!).
One of these days I'll get around to the CGI Captain Scarlet and Dan Dare shows. Mind you, I bet those aren't as good as the originals.

I thought the modern Dredd film was trying to go "realistic" (Psi judges being mutants, rather than people who just happen to have a special power, as they are in the comics, for instance), so I don't think Judge Death would have worked in the first one. If there is any sequels I hope we first have ...

I'm sure Savage and his rebels actually managed to recapture London from the Volgs in one story, but in the next story they had somehow agreed a ceasefire and "re-unified", except the Volgs were as oppressive as ever, and Bill was still a hunted rebel on the run!

Well, Tiger and Roy of the Rovers used to feature World Cup related stories during their runs. In fact, the last time around there was a book collecting several of these - but it was released without much fanfare (not that the other two collections, from the 70's and 80's, got much either). It featu...

I sometimes feel a bit guilty if I'm ebay bidding on something and the price creeps up just before the auction closes. I imagine somebody really elderly, trying to grab a piece of nostalgia from thier past making increasingly desperate bids that they still couldn't really afford anyway. Of course it...

An old example:
http://blog.crystal-knights.co.uk/2012/ ... -coloured/

Not a fan of The Phoenix at the moment, Mega Robo Bros is terrible! But as it's an anthology, no doubt the dinosaurs with pirate ships on them will come back around in time.

1976 was 1976, though! I think it's safe to say I have quite a cross-section of Japanese comics, from 1908 (probably the oldest thing I have that's full of stories, though they're all text, of course!) to 2014. There is plenty of porn, some of it very dodgy indeed. A great deal of their "self publis...

Surely leaving cars parked on a dockside railway line is just asking for trouble?

I remember having one dream that was exactly like a Charles Hamilton boarding school story. We were doing a 'tuck raid' on a nearby girls' school, one of them caught us, but we'd stolen a hamper from some bullies, so she let us escape out of the window after we promised to give her a share. I want m...

Hmm, well the most popular comic stories in Japan at the moment (you can tell because there's rubbish merchandise from them in all the grab machines) are about Volleyball and Basketball. But they seem to like sports more "evenly" over there. The female and male national football teams get more or le...

Wasn't the 23rd October 1976 issue the one where the whole print run was shredded and the original art destroyed or heavily altered (on the actual boards themselves)? Good luck finding one of those! I, too, recently got the Big Fat Bunter Book. I got the Sexton Blake Detective Library years ago, it ...

The fact there's already two (three when Clint was still going) publications already aimed at that market surely rules out another one? They haven't got unlimited money! Also it would probably be filled with sci-fi, superheroes and "intellectual" stories about caeltic faery earthe magyk and living i...

I saw somebody buying that, and meant to get it but forgot anyway >.< There was a pack of reprinted issues several years ago, but some of them were incomplete (the Elvis Death and Berlin Wall ones were just 4 pages), also many of the adverts had been replaced by modern ones for Time Computers (333mh...