What comics did you buy today?

[Peter Gray]

Same here..
hope they do more humour comic pages reviews...articles...

[stevezodiac]

I picked this up for 50p (Yes 50p!) last Saturday. 1977 and in superb condition including the dust wrapper. It has reprinted stuff right from the 1840s when Punch began.

BTW wasn't Ken Graham at the postcard fair? He sells comics. He had Hotspur no. 10 a few weeks ago for a mere £12 i think.

[Phoenix]

BTW wasn't Ken Graham at the postcard fair? He sells comics. He had Hotspur no. 10 a few weeks ago for a mere £12 i think.

According to the floor plan I got in exchange for my £1.50, Steve, Ken Graham had three stands together near the door. I've never met him so I don't know what he looks like, and although I didn't consult the floor plan till I got home, I know that I looked at his exhibits but, as I said earlier, I didn't see any comics.

[stevezodiac]

Next month on December 6th there is a comic mart and an ephemera fair both in Bloomsbury. Luckily the Ephemera fair opens at 11am so I spend an hour there before ambling across the road. Ken always has comics when I go but maybe he is expecting me and brings comics especially.

At yesterday's fair i got around 70 issues of Wham for roughly £2 each. I never had many Whams so it was quite a coup. Also got some Ally Slopers Half Holidays from 1888 and 1893 plus some vintage 20s, 30s and 40s comics. On saturday in Deptford market i got seven Jackies from 1979/80 for 50p each plus about 35 Judys, Buntys, TV Comics from the same era - all 25p each.

[colcool007]

Didn't exactly buy it today, but found my Victor Adventure Special had turned up. Looks like it had been opened and hidden in amongst the various piles of junk we have dotted around the house. [Still de-boxing after moving] So opened it and went wow at the IK drawing on pg 3. I then did a double-take and went racing round the house to find my originals tube. [Not some deviant practice, but a postal tube that I use to store prints away from the light until I can get them framed] I found the tube and also found that one of my pet theories was blown out of the water, but I don't care as I am now able to establish exactly when my original IK drawing was used.

I had thought that the picture had been commissioned for a Hotspur cover that was never printed due to the merge with Victor, but I am happy to find that it was the 'splash' picture for the first page of the Mantracker story in the Victor Adventure Special. Comic heaven for colcool today!

[Phoenix]

Didn't exactly buy it today, but found my Victor Adventure Special had turned up.

Oh ye of little faith!

[colcool007]

Didn't exactly buy it today, but found my Victor Adventure Special had turned up.

Oh ye of little faith!

I had faith in the seller, just not in the post!

[tony ingram]

God knows when it'll arrive, but I've just bought a copy of Lois Lane Double Double Comics (one of those Thorpe & Porter oddities from the late 60s) off ebay. I have a couple of these already (Action Double Double and Adventure Double Double) but I'm a sucker for weird stuff.

[Phoenix]

Yesterday I completed my collection of Buddy and The Wizard (picture version) and got fourteen of the only seventeen issues of The Victor that I needed. I was also able to make serious inroads into my Wants List for The Hornet and The (New) Hotspur. Not that far to go now.

[felneymike]

Today a 1920 volume of Chums arrived, expanding my collection of that paper further. The pages are not attached to the cover, though. Not really had much of a look but the volume actually starts in September 1919, and has some detective and boxing stories. For several years after the end of world war 1 stories about the war were taboo for the story papers, so there's none of those (though by the mid 30's stories about the trenches and air battles were near constant)

[Phoenix]

For several years after the end of world war 1 stories about the war were taboo for the story papers

Exactly the same happened in Thomsons' story papers after WW2. The first major series of war stories in the post-war period didn't start until August 1952, that being I Flew With Braddock.

[steelclaw]

Good News Ad in this weeks Dr Who Adventures

[colcool007]

Good News Ad in this weeks Dr Who Adventures

And was this from the 1987 issue?

[Digifiend]

lol, he's joking of course. What's that advert really from?

[UnionJ]

Picked up the following today

Beano 1974 annual - mint
The adventure annual
Lone Ranger adventure stories no 2
Roy rodgers dventure no 3
Vulcan annual 1977
Pink Panther annual 1974
Hobbie annual 1962
Radio fun annual 1940
Our boys gift book
around 60 beano comics from the 80s and 90s, 20 odd in near mint
a few whizzer and chips, cheeky, walt disney comics etc
6 Dell western comics from the 50s
plus a few pop up and children books from the 60s

Paid 30 pounds for the lot

I primarily collect american comics, but bought a few beanos the other week and cant stop reading them now, so im happy enough to pick up some more, dont know if £30 is alot but im pleased