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blaing wrote:Niblet, you have to use the [IMG] option from photobucket.
Thanks, Bruce - I'll try that next time, although I thought using the Img button in the 'compose your post' window on this forum, after highlighting the address, applied [IMG] tags to the url. It always worked before
Raven wrote:Yes, an early 1976 Hotspur and Hornet with Charlie's Ant on the back.
Danny Boyd on the cover, possibly?
There's another shot later on where you can see the words "Beware the Black Arrows" on the yellow scroll at the bottom of the cover
Yes - the front covers were split into two around May/June that year, though - the top half looks like it may be Danny Boyd, though it looks more like he's wielding a bendy fishing rod than one of his golf clubs.
Wonder no more, it is in fact a copy of Hotspur and Hornet 874 dated 17/7/76 and the character on the top of the front page is Joe Dodds of Cast, Hook and Strike
grumpy old man wrote:Wonder no more, it is in fact a copy of Hotspur and Hornet 874 dated 17/7/76 and the character on the top of the front page is Joe Dodds of Cast, Hook and Strike
Wow...the detective skills amaze me, i didn't think someone would be able to trace a comic just from a blurry snapshot of the cover, so quickly
Here's another Last of the Summer Wine pic, this one from the 1989 episode "The Kiss and Mavis Poskit". It's in the background this time, so it's a lot blurrier.
We Have a Beano, and next to it a Whizzer and Chips (which looks familiar to me...I might have that issue...is it Tarman on the cover?). I think that might be a Buster on the shelf above...can't see the title clearly, but the figure looks vaguely Buster like
Forthcoming at 6.30pm on BBC2, Tuesday 1st March: My Life in Books - either Jeanette Winterson or Alistair Campbell have chosen The Broons and Oor Wullie collections amongst their favourite books to discuss.
Raven wrote:Forthcoming at 6.30pm on BBC2, Tuesday 1st March: My Life in Books - either Jeanette Winterson or Alistair Campbell have chosen The Broons and Oor Wullie collections amongst their favourite books to discuss.
According to today's Sunday Post, it's Alistair Cambell.
here's a puzzler. Been watching an old kids show from my youth called T-Bag. Been watching the first series (Trouble with T-Bag) from 1985...each episode is focussing on an episode of the alphabet, and the second episode is all about the letter B, and features a character who at one point whips out a comic to read. It looks like it maybe says "Bonkers" (matching the "B" theme) but i can't be sure about that.
The logo looks like the early Jackpot logo (the white at the top, graduating to red at the bottom), but that finished quite a while before this would have been filmed...so i wonder if it's an old comic that the prop department have mocked up with a new title to fit the theme. The cover seems to be of Tower Bridge.
That T-Bag show wasn't the first time a TV show had messed about with a comic's title. These clips are from episode 8 of the Morecambe & Wise series broadcast in early 1973. Eric's reading what is clearly a Beano with a DAndy label across the real title, and is telling Ernie about the Desperate Dan story he's enjoying. From one angle we can see that Eric's script has been pasted inside the comic. Towards the end of the sketch, Eric tells Ernie about the Lord Snooty story. A few other comics can be seen on the bed, the only one I can identify is a Buster and Jet.
The sketch which follows features Eric with a different copy of The Beano.
Wow...i'm constantly amazed at the depth of knowledge on here, I didn't think anyone would be able to identify it that quickly. I also have to say, that's a really nice cover illustration too
jakob1978 wrote:Wow...i'm constantly amazed at the depth of knowledge on here, I didn't think anyone would be able to identify it that quickly. I also have to say, that's a really nice cover illustration too
It was drawn by Steve Bell, famous these days for his work on The Guardian.
Niblet wrote:That T-Bag show wasn't the first time a TV show had messed about with a comic's title. These clips are from episode 8 of the Morecambe & Wise series broadcast in early 1973. Eric's reading what is clearly a Beano with a DAndy label across the real title, and is telling Ernie about the Desperate Dan story he's enjoying. From one angle we can see that Eric's script has been pasted inside the comic. Towards the end of the sketch, Eric tells Ernie about the Lord Snooty story. A few other comics can be seen on the bed, the only one I can identify is a Buster and Jet.
Why didn't they just use a real Dandy for the Dan reference, and leave the real logo on that Beano? Also, the IBA or whatever Ofcom was in those days should've probably told them off, it's almost like product placement, which only became legal today.
Digifiend wrote:Also, the IBA or whatever Ofcom was in those days should've probably told them off, it's almost like product placement, which only became legal today.
Blimey, I'm glad you weren't vetting their scripts. It's only a comedy prop. TV companies might take "advertising" too seriously these days though, which may explain why the magazines in Coronation Street sometimes have dummy covers with fictitious titles.
It's only a comedy prop. TV companies might take "advertising" too seriously these days though, which may explain why the magazines in Coronation Street sometimes have dummy covers with fictitious titles.
