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Put it this way... every TV21 & 2000AD cover is easily placed into a certain period of time and I'd have a good shot at naming the exact number just by the front cover.
Can you do that with TV Comic? I'd have no chance.
Its the same for any comic that has a full strip on the cover and keeps the same logo for any length of time.
Some comics you're just better of having a nice bound volume...
Yes. I don't think the usual definitions of nondescript - lacking distinction, drab, undistinguished, etc. - can be applied to the masterful Bill Titcombe's art of this period. I don't think I've ever seen a US Tom and Jerry strip reflect the kinetic energy (and violence!) of the original cartoon series as well as Titcombe's - and the colour was always very effectively applied. I remember those covers as a big draw at the time.
Again not a comic as such but a nice book about comics: Great British Comics by Paul Gravett and Peter Stanbury. I had borrowed it from the library a few years ago and thought it gave a nice overview of British comics so I bought it last week.
Very fragile and brittle but I had Hotspur #1 and Skipper #1 delivered this morning. Iconic comics which have been on my wish list for some time. I feel like wearing surgical gloves when I look at them though! Boy's Favourite #1 also arrived with them.
This week I've also bought Classics Illustrated UK #1 which was Huckleberry Finn which I've also been after for a while as well as a dozen Smash comics from 1966, some old Hornet comic football gifts, Marvel Comics Star Wars Special editions #1 & 2 which are twice the size of a normal comic, Victor #920 as I have the gifts for the comic already and Out of this World #1, 2, 3 & 4 from Alan Class but they look like reprints although I'm not sure when from.
All of this has been financed by selling off a few duplicates so all's good!
According to the Grand Comics Database, issues 1, 2 and 4 of the Alan Class version of Out Of This World reprint stories from various issues of the Charlton Comics title Out Of This World.
Nobody has indexed issue 3 on GCD, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't contain more Charlton reprints.
According to the Grand Comics Database, issues 1, 2 and 4 of the Alan Class version of Out Of This World reprint stories from various issues of the Charlton Comics title Out Of This World.
Nobody has indexed issue 3 on GCD, but I'd be surprised if it doesn't contain more Charlton reprints.
Yesterday, actually. I exchanged some comics with my pal, Wee John, who, in return, gave me a pile of Fantastic and Terrific; 4 issues of Hornet; Inside Mad paperback and Knockout Annual 1957. And in the post, a nice pile of Super Detective library facsimiles, incl. a couple of tasty Bill Lacey illustrated issues. What a good day.