Comics on TV

[Niblet]

The episode of Traffic Cops broadcast on 26 October 2015 featured this van driver with what I assume to be a Beano air freshener dangling from his rear view mirror.

[Niblet]

Our chums over at the Britmovie forum have a thread entitled Newspapers and Comics on Screen (started some years after this thread!).

Earlier on this this thread I posted about an Eagle with a mocked-up cover that appeared in the 1955 film Escapade. Robbie identified the issue that was the basis of the fabricated on-screen version.

A Britmovie member has posted a scene featuring that same mocked-up Eagle, but from another 1955 film, Stock Car.

Our Britmovie pal doesn't realise it's a faked front cover. I used to have a Britmovie login under a different username but I can't remember the password, and when I request a new password the email fails to arrive.

[Digifiend]

You must have registered under a different email then, I guess. You could just re-register.

[Niblet]

A tranquil interlude during the gritty, grim and grimy The 14 (1973)...



...Bimbo Book 1969 - unfortunately we don't get a better view of the book being read by the boy nearest the camera.



...and from the same film, a copy of Hey Diddle Diddle (cover of a different issue for reference).

[Digifiend]

Back in Time for the Weekend, a programme on BBC2 in which a family live as you would've done in the past, advancing a year each day, starting in 1950, was on at 8pm today. In 1952, the 12 year old son of the family went camping with two friends. Among his gear were a Beano and a Dandy.

[Dunder Ed]

Yeah, if I was on the programme I would try and get as many of them as I could.

[big bad bri]

Not on tv as such but i'm listening to the podcast of Iain Lee's new show on talk radio and they are talking about helemets which led to a discussion about judge Dredd and his clone Rico then 2000ad was mentioned along with whizzer & chips ,victor and Mad magagzine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZZdvCoamWQ

[stevezodiac]

I listened to Ian Lee for about five minutes a few years back when he was on LBC. A lot of listeners complained and said the station should have been renamed LBCeebeebies. Is he still as childish on Talk Radio? When I heard the line up would include Ian Lee, George Galloway and Sam Delaney, all of whom I cannot bear the sound of, I decided to give it a miss. Paul Ross isn't much good either.

Just noticed on American Pickers one seller had boxes of AMerican Comics. You can catch it on DAvejavu at about 8.55pm.

[big bad bri]

i love iain lee's shows and am currently listening to all his old lbc shows .i think he has grown up now as he is very open about depression etc which i can relate to but he still has the same nutty callers seem to ring up though and seems to be interviewing a different singer every night this week such as dr hook and the singer from bare naked ladies.he is the only one i will listen to on talk otherwise im back on talksport or absolute 80s.

[stevezodiac]

On a prvious American pickers they came across Amazing Adult Fantasy 15 the first Spider-Man and sold it for $5000 which was pretty cheap.

[Digifiend]

Issue 15 is just called Amazing Fantasy. They apparently didn't want kids to be put off buying Spidey's debut.

[koollectablz]

Just been to see Highrise, the film based on JG Ballard's novel.

Blink and you miss it but one of the kids is shown reading an Action comic...

Specifically the aggro, kids rules cover.

[starscape]

When I heard the line up would include Ian Lee, George Galloway and Sam Delaney, all of whom I cannot bear the sound of, I decided to give it a miss. Paul Ross isn't much good either

Sheesh! I'll give that a miss!

[Niblet]

Issue 20 of Joe 90 Top Secret can be seen hanging off the shelf above the record player in a scene from the 'Getting the Bird' episode of Doctor in the House, originally broadcast on 06 September 1969.

[Niblet]

From the Please Sir! episode entitled Vive la Revolution (original broadcast date 02 October 1971); there are two scenes in which comics appear. In the first we see a copy of Hotspur. I suspect it's the 01 May 1971 issue.

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The second scene with a comic connection is set in a newsagent's, where TV 21 dated 03 April 1971 is in evidence.





From this angle we see the now discarded TV21 from the shot above, to the left of which may be another comic, plus this issue of Countdown (can't read the cover date) at the bottom right of the screen. What looks to me like a copy of TV21 dated 27 March 1971 can be seen on the wall in this shot.





Maybe some of the other publications visible in the above and subsequent shots are also comics, but if so I can't identify them.