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ramirez wrote:Well I still don 't get it, and I don 't get how DC Thomson were not sued by Fleetway for infringment.

You can't copyright a title! (And it's not individual enough to trademark.)

ramirez wrote: By the way, I found that the football strip I mentioned on page 5 is "GIVE IT TO GREGORY!" from SCORE 'n' ROAR. Does anyone recognise the artist?

Barrie Mitchell.

EDIT: Sorry, see below, I looked at the wrong picture.

Raven wrote:You can't copyright a title!

Agreed. If we use Thomsons' complete text story paper output for boys and girls as an example, the following book titles match up.

Adventure is a collection of stories for boys published c1938 by Shaw.
The Rover by Joseph Conrad.
The Wizard by H. Rider Haggard.
The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck.
The Vanguard by Arnold Bennett.
The Skipper by Edith E. Cuthell.
The Red Arrow by Jeff Rovin and Sander Diamond.
The Hotspur by Alfred F. Loomis

Of course, to complete the set, we have the following.

The Big Four by Agatha Christie.
The Big Five by Gunby Hadath.

The artist of "Give it to Gregory" looks a bit like John Stokes to me.

So, is it definite that Barrie Mitchell drew "Give it to Gregory"? Was he that fast to be drawing "Jack..." & "Jimmy..." at the same time?


Also, I 'm looking for the writers of some new Eagle magazine strips. The brothers & The hand, both drawn by Vicente Vano I believe. The golden boy writer, that was drawn by Mike Western, plus the artist of Walk or die, when it stopped being a photostrip and continued as a classic comic.

It doesn't look like Barrie Mitchell to me. As I said before it looks a bit like John Stokes but I'm not 100%.

chrisb wrote:It doesn't look like Barrie Mitchell to me. As I said before it looks a bit like John Stokes but I'm not 100%.

One more in the 'not Barrie Mitchell' camp here.

comixminx wrote:

chrisb wrote:It doesn't look like Barrie Mitchell to me. As I said before it looks a bit like John Stokes but I'm not 100%.

One more in the 'not Barrie Mitchell' camp here.

Definitely not Barrie Mitchell. I agree it's John Stokes or someone who was told to imitate his style that week.

Sorry, got our lines crossed - replying in haste, I'd clicked the link given and only seen the top Jack of United pic before dashing back, thinking that's the artist we were talking about. That's why I said Barrie Mitchell!

Give it to Gregory is, indeed, not by him.

OK, I found the info for the Eagle strips at comicvine. However, I think these two names were not real. The writer of Golden Boy is A. Power (Wagner ?) & the writer of Star Rider is G. Douglas (Wagner again or Alan Grant ?). Any thoughts?

OK, a couple of inquiries and I promise I won 't bother you for the next few weeks. I 'm looking for info on two strips from Victor and one from Wizard.

The first strip from Victor is a football story drawn by Neville Wilson in 1985 and lasted approx. 30 episodes. I just want the title.

The second strip from Victor is also a football story concerning a clumsy football player that creates chaos either for his team or the opponents', but the result ends up in his favour. This comedic story lasted 12 episodes, and I 'm looking for its title and authors.

The Wizard strip is an adventure story from 1984, concerning two journalists on the run from a dictator (if I remember correctly) and lasted 14 episodes. Its greek title was The Hunted, maybe the english title is similar. Again I 'm looking for its title and authors. If necessary I will post pictures for anything that doesn 't ring a bell...

ramirez wrote:The Wizard strip is an adventure story from 1984

Can you check your date, ramirez, for the appearance of the strip you are seeking as The Wizard turned its toes up in 1978.

ramirez wrote:OK, a couple of inquiries and I promise I won 't bother you for the next few weeks. I 'm looking for info on two strips from Victor and one from Wizard.

The first strip from Victor is a football story drawn by Neville Wilson in 1985 and lasted approx. 30 episodes. I just want the title.

The second strip from Victor is also a football story concerning a clumsy football player that creates chaos either for his team or the opponents', but the result ends up in his favour. This comedic story lasted 12 episodes, and I 'm looking for its title and authors.

The Wizard strip is an adventure story from 1984, concerning two journalists on the run from a dictator (if I remember correctly) and lasted 14 episodes. Its greek title was The Hunted, maybe the english title is similar. Again I 'm looking for its title and authors. If necessary I will post pictures for anything that doesn 't ring a bell...

Pictures please as they are tantalising my synapsis. I think I know two of them, but without pictures, I would be just guessing.

ramirez wrote: The first strip from Victor is a football story drawn by Neville Wilson in 1985 and lasted approx. 30 episodes. I just want the title.

The only football serial of any significant length that started in The Victor in 1985 was The Goals Of Jimmy Grant. It ran from 1293 (Nov. 30 1985) - 1317 (May 17 1986). It was drawn by Neville Wilson. There was a second series in 1987.

ramirez wrote:The second strip from Victor is also a football story concerning a clumsy football player that creates chaos either for his team or the opponents', but the result ends up in his favour. This comedic story lasted 12 episodes, and I 'm looking for its title and authors.

What year did this serial appear in The Victor, please, ramirez.

That series of The Goals of Jimmy Grant was not drawn by Neville Wilson but by Tony Harding. Wilson however did draw, along with Peter Foster, We Are United which ran from 1288 26th October 1985 to 1317 17th May 1986.