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Hi Cap, Details of Nick Jolly strip as follows - Series 1 Hotspur Nos 714(23/6/73)-728(29/9/73) In this first series of 'Nick Jolly-the Flying Highwayman', to give the strip its full title, the eponymous hero is an 18th century Robin Hood figure who steals from the rich to give to the needy while be...

I'll check on this one and get back to you if someone doesn't come up with the answer first. For some reason the number 153 comes to mind. If you want any other details about the final issue, contents etc just say so.

This sounds like a strip from the Hotspur, whose name off the top of my head I can't remember, that was drawn by Bill Holroyd. If it is by the 1970's it was certainly a reprint. I'll get back to you on this one.

Any strip that lasts for fifty years has to have something going for it, but that will only be appreciated by those that enjoy the premise of the strip in the first place, in this case football. And even then, and this is true in my case, a polarisation towards the football line-up offered by the pa...

Never been a big fan of price guides and as Lew points out the advent of ebay has made the whole idea a basically pointless exercise. What is needed are more guides to the specific contents of annuals/summer specials etc. For instance it would be nice to see a guide of this sort devoted to the annua...

Is Grenademan still out there and if so does he still want some of these strips identified?

If you still want details of Nick Jolly let me know and I'll post his stripography here.

Do you still want info on Jim Bleach as I did a small article on him many moons ago in an issue of The Comic Journal and I could still search out a few relevant details if of interest?

[/quote] Was not the Mice Of Tobruk originally printed in Bullet? I know that I had read the story arc before but I can't put my finger on the original. What amazes me is not the re-incarnation of characters, but the direct re-print that DCT carried out on several occasions. I can forgive the re-int...

Hi Beezer, Fret no more, details of Willie Getaway as follows- He appeared in Sparky issues No316(6/2/71) - No451(8/9/73) and also turned up in a four page strip in the Sparky Book 1973 where he encountered the Loch Ness Monster. The artist throughout the series was veteran cartoonist Phil Millar. I...

Originals seemed to be Hammer, Bushwhacker, Tad Turner, Young Starhawk, Jasper Sly, Tom Smith's Schooldays (with a style reminiscent of Rian Hughes' Big Dave) and School For Soccer. Recycled were The Mice Of Tobruk (I know I have read it somewhere else and it draws very heavily on Jag's Mouse Patro...

What is the title of the strip from which the featured example comes from? If I could see a bit more of the artist in questions work maybe a name would spring to mind.

I once owned two of DCT's companion series to Red Dagger, titled Lucky Charm. They were both Ballet School type stories possibly from the 1950's or early 1960's all drawn by the brilliant Paddy Brennan, unfortunately I cannot recall the issue numbers..or the precise titles, though I do remember tha...

Whoever this artist is, it isn't Alan Philpott although admittedly it maybe someone doing a poor imitation of his style. Philpott's full name was, and possibly still is (he was born in 1916 if memory serves), Frederick Alan just to clear up what the initials F A stood for. He was one of my all time ...

Thanks for the credit Lew. If of interest the strip 'The Boys of Coughdrop College' that you've featured from the 1950 Slick Fun Album and which is signed 'HEP' is the work of H.E.Pease one of a number of usually'second string' AP artists who moonlighted for Swan publications where the page rate was...