What comics did you buy today?

[Hawkeye]

Is it the first appearance of Ken Reid's Fudge the Elf?

Correct! Well done

[Hawkeye]

See if you can get this one then............

First appearance of ..... in the Sunday Graphic on the 5th June 1949. Went on to have many books written about him and even several TV Series.

[jim244]

See if you can get this one then............

First appearance of ..... in the Sunday Graphic on the 5th June 1949. Went on to have many books written about him and even several TV Series.

Noddy ?

[Hawkeye]

See if you can get this one then............

First appearance of ..... in the Sunday Graphic on the 5th June 1949. Went on to have many books written about him and even several TV Series.

Noddy ?

Correct again, haven't got this one though.

[Into The Abyss]

Had four nice Dandy comics delivered today. Dandy's no.585,586,587,588, all from 1953 in VG+ to FN- condition.

[jim244]

The following Buster comics arrived this morning:

19th December 1964
21st November 1964
6th June 1964

18th November 1961
11th November 1961

3rd December 1960
26th November 1960
19th November 1960
15th October 1960
24th September 1960
30th July 1960
23rd July 1960
16th July 1960

I am now only missing 3 issues to complete the year 1960.

Total Buster comics collected so far between the years 1960 - 1981 is 636 issues not including Summer / Puzzle specials & Annuals.

Brilliant collection Chalky...My maths is terrible but you must have about 14 years worth so 8 years left approx???

Thanks jim244, not all years are complete runs but I do have all of 1969,1970, 1979-1981. I probably have just under 13 years worth. I still need 458 Busters to complete what I need which is just under 9 years worth of comics.

You will get there Chalky.You already have probably one of the largest collections of Buster in the UK.
Some people will have every issue already but you can count them on a hand.
Great stuff.
BTW:I have a Hotspur that has a pull out Buster promotion for the first issue.May be the first 3 issues? Not sure,not in front of me right now.
Do you have that?

[jim244]

See if you can get this one then............

First appearance of ..... in the Sunday Graphic on the 5th June 1949. Went on to have many books written about him and even several TV Series.

Noddy ?

Correct again, haven't got this one though.

I was guessing and wasn't sure,just when you said many books and several tv series and I knew Noddy was 50s ish start so just a lucky guess.

[jim244]

Had four nice Dandy comics delivered today. Dandy's no.585,586,587,588, all from 1953 in VG+ to FN- condition.

Absolutely beautiful as always Into The Abyss.
How is your Dandy collection going in numbers?

[Into The Abyss]

Had four nice Dandy comics delivered today. Dandy's no.585,586,587,588, all from 1953 in VG+ to FN- condition.

Absolutely beautiful as always Into The Abyss.
How is your Dandy collection going in numbers?

Thanks jim244. Too kind. Yeah, think I've got about 400 Dandy comics now.

[Chalky]

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[Chalky]

Brilliant collection Chalky...My maths is terrible but you must have about 14 years worth so 8 years left approx???

Thanks jim244, not all years are complete runs but I do have all of 1969,1970, 1979-1981. I probably have just under 13 years worth. I still need 458 Busters to complete what I need which is just under 9 years worth of comics.

You will get there Chalky.You already have probably one of the largest collections of Buster in the UK.
Some people will have every issue already but you can count them on a hand.
Great stuff.
BTW:I have a Hotspur that has a pull out Buster promotion for the first issue.May be the first 3 issues? Not sure,not in front of me right now.
Do you have that?

Hi jim244, well what I can say is that I may have one of the biggest Buster collections in Ireland which is where I live! However there are certainly collectors out there who have the complete run.

I have a simple excel sheet to track all the issues I have with missing issues listed, which makes it very easy for me to keep track of what I need. I've also adjusted my list for the years where strikes paused publication of the comic for a few weeks here and there.

I didn't care for the comic after 1986, too many mergers which comics that didn't appeal to me, a change of artistic styles coupled with me growing out of comics at that time. I don't have the Buster promo you refer to, I suspect it may be similar to the one Phil Comics sold a few weeks ago on Ebay http://www.phil-comics.com/Preview.php?87996@UA==

[Chalky]

Just received in the post today:

Buster 16th March 1968
Buster 13th April 1968

I'm just missing 5 issues from 1968 now.

[stevezodiac]

Do you have the first issue of Buster?

[Chalky]

Do you have the first issue of Buster?

Hi stevezodiac, yes I have the 1st issue of Buster.

[stevezodiac]

Me too. I also have the pocket sized facsimile that you cut from the pages of Buster and folded. All black and white though.