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I picked up this newsagent hanging card advert at Kempton Park antiques fair for £5 last month.

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12 Jun 2023, 12:29

Received today Buster & Giggle November 30th 1968. I'm finding it more difficult to find 1960's Busters...

I have dozens of 1960s Busters including issue 1 and some larger size early issues. I'm selling off most of my collection on ebay but it's slow progress.

Next Monday on the Yorkshire Auction House a man sells his comic collection numbering in the thousands as his wife wants them gone. He should divorce her.

There's an Alan Class cover featuring Iron Man where the face of a female (villainess?) that iron Man is rescuing has been changed from fear to happiness. Just checked and its Creepy Worlds 68 which uses the original cover art. The American version was changed by the comics code I think to make her ...

There was also the Girls Own Paper of which I have quite a few nineteenth century issues.

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....