Cover Story - Rover 1961-1973

[bigpete]

Also just wanted to add how brilliant Ron Smith's covers were. Not sure who the colourist was over Ron's inks or if he did them himself but the colours just made those covers pop right out at you.

[colcool007]

Morning gentlemen, Jeff Bevan is a really underestimated artist in my books. He did numerous spot illo's as Ray mentioned, mostly war related but he did a few illo's in the girls comic's as well. Think he joined Thomson in late 57 Ray. Did a couple of free gift booklet's and if my memory's right Ray at least one the covers for the hardback war books DCT did if not the interior work on one of them as well? Definitely Ian Kennedy on that cover as we all agree but I just wanted to say that although I was never particularly fond of the boys story papers, I always bought their Xmas issues simply for the covers The Rover one's in particular were amongst my favourites I just loved the Xmas covers!

Pete, did you see my article about Jeff over on Down The Tubes? Here is a link to it in case you missed it.

I always enjoyed his work and thought it was a shame that he never got more recognition for it.