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john56peter756brit · Post by **john56peter756brit** » 12 Mar 2007, 01:26

There was one i did i can remember it was on the back of most comics at the time that was of a persuaders pen early 70's. i did a few more when i worked in a studio but for the life of me i cant think off hand what they were. Some for kellogs the other bloke who was there used to do a lot of airfix model stuff. The first drawing i ever got printed in a magazine was for Men Only way back in 1969 it was a drawing of General Custer.

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 12 Mar 2007, 01:56

john56peter756brit wrote:There was one i did i can remember it was on the back of most comics at the time that was of a persuaders pen early 70's.

I remember that one. I'll see if I can find it sometime this week, unless someone else finds it first.

Lew

john56peter756brit · Post by **john56peter756brit** » 12 Mar 2007, 13:23

I did find it on a persuaders web site but you think i can find it now. when i worked in a studio in london you tend to do that many things i forgot most of what i did its strange that i can remember the first one i did which as i say was general custer in Men Only in 1969 i would have been about 14 then Lew.

Lew Stringer · Post by **Lew Stringer** » 12 Mar 2007, 15:24

john56peter756brit wrote:I did find it on a persuaders web site but you think i can find it now. when i worked in a studio in london you tend to do that many things i forgot most of what i did its strange that i can remember the first one i did which as i say was general custer in Men Only in 1969 i would have been about 14 then Lew.

I can vaguely see that Persuaders Pen advert in my mind. I think it may have appeared in TV Action, as The Persuaders strip was in there. I'll check when I have time.

Lew

john56peter756brit · Post by **john56peter756brit** » 12 Mar 2007, 23:31

It would be when my mate Harry Lindfield was drawing that Persuaders Strip.

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 26 Jul 2007, 00:26

inspired by Lews blog..on free gifts..
I remember the league ladder from number 1 Champ...

the guy falkes mask in Whoopee number 500 drawn by Brian Walker...sticks out in mind...

Muffy · Post by **Muffy** » 26 Jul 2007, 09:19

When I was 6 my dad used to take us to a news/sweet shop in West Harrow, one of the ones with those big sweet jars where they measured things in pounds and ounces, and you could get sweets for half a pence. He would treat us to either a comic or a sweet, I would usually get Buster and Monster Fun or TV comic, my brother usually went for the sweet, but he did like Whizzer and Chips comic too, I think things used to cost 6p or 7p. Where I did have a sweet, you can see the issues missing in my collection (I still have the well read comics Dad bought me). Later on it was fab when they combined sweets with comics, yum yum. Free strawberry milkshake in a 1979 was nice to get a sweet-like free gift. Fizzy sweets in Nutty No.1 were good too. Free bubble gum - nice too.

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 27 Jul 2007, 16:21

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Beezer comic #34 dated September 8th 1956, still with its free gift, the Hilly Billy Bang!

that sounds fun........you could have a feud

DJDogfart · Post by **DJDogfart** » 27 Jul 2007, 21:25

Does anyone remember the Rowntree's Fruit Gums (or it may have been Pastilles) advert posters that ran in the Fleetway Funnies in about 1980? They were proper fold out glossy posters (not huge though) that had some sort of mystery in the artwork that the reader had to decipher and come to some conclusion as to what it all meant. I never did find out what the answer was. I think I have still got the ads in my dad's loft so i'll try and dig them out next time i'm round there. Maybe Smarties 'have the answer'!!!!!

philcom55 · Post by **philcom55** » 27 Jul 2007, 23:56

As a matter of interest, can anyone place the first instance of sweets being given free with comics. Offhand I can remember several Fleetway titles that gave away toffee bars in the early 1960s - especially the 2d bar of Sharps Super Kreem Toffee that came with the first combined issue of Valiant & Knockout in 1963 (and which seemed like the most delicious thing I'd ever tasted at the time!).

- Phil Rushton

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 28 Jul 2007, 00:08

Beano number 2 did...sugar button sweets...

Dandy had a jumping frog in the 2nd issue...

I've mentioned the fruit gum posters in this post already....loved it as well...it was very Mr Menish....maybe it was drawn by Roger Hargreaves?...I'm a big Mr Men fan as well...

the answer to the riddle is that fruit gums last a long time to chew..
e.g there were the seasons.....trees changed......also he aged into an old man still chewing.......

I would love to see these posters again...

post them up here if you can...

rossobantam · Post by **rossobantam** » 28 Jan 2016, 01:55

Peter Gray wrote:
...I've mentioned the fruit gum posters in this post already....loved it as well...it was very Mr Menish....maybe it was drawn by Roger Hargreaves?...I'm a big Mr Men fan as well...

the answer to the riddle is that fruit gums last a long time to chew..
e.g there were the seasons.....trees changed......also he aged into an old man still chewing.......

I would love to see these posters again... post them up here if you can...

Is this the Rowntrees competition from 1982?.....win a timeshare villa for life!! (runner up gets a Raleigh Grifter or Honey

)

You need a person's name & surname, house no. street town & postcode (latter is given up eventually!)

Can ANY of you guys crack this...I was on a forum a few years back and it proved so vague as to be nigh on impossible....I have the posters in Battle (think it was in Eagle too??) and I've even looked in Battle for months afterwards for the 'competition results' inserts but there isn't one for this comp!!!!! Dave

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