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It's from the 1960 TV Comic Annual.

Here are a couple more examples:





It might seem strange to talk about comic timing in connection with two-dimensional pictures but in my opinion George never gets enough credit for his effortless mastery of this essential aspect of the humorous comic strip!

- Phil Rushton

http://petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogs ... icsuk.html

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I agree George is brilliant at the slapstick..see Greedy Pigg..
there is so many comic artists to admire..

It is a nice strip that "Super Nan" I do not know TV Comic so its all new to me.

One thing I find interesting is the theme of the first strip, being Rugby, (actually looks like the Wallabies) I cannot remember seeing Rugby too often in comics? Or is it that I have not read enough of them?

I may be wrong but I think those strips are by a George Martin copyist? Anyway here is the very first TV Terrors strip from TV Comic 508 dated 9 September 1961.

Here are a couple more TV Comic strips from 1960. Red Ray is signed by "Lewis" Brian? and the Kidnapped strip is very much in the vein of the Watkin's versions for Topper.

The Tv Terrors always got booted in every strip!!!
its great seeing all these early Tv Comic strips..

Stevezodiac, I think you might be right about that Red Ray page being drawn by Brian Lewis. The signature certainly looks like his, and while his Wikipedia entry claims that he started drawing comics in 1959, we all know how imprecise Wikipedia can be, esecially since it seems, according to the Four Feather Falls article at http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.c ... Falls1.htm and the Fireball XL5 article at http://www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.c ... L5Pt01.htm, that the chief artist on Red Ray was Neville Main, so Lewis may well have been a fill-in artist, which fits well with Brian Lewis beinf a newcomer.

I have some 1959 TV Comics and Red Ray is indeed drawn by Neville Main as it has his signature. Those earlier strips were only half a page. Main drew quite a few pages in TV Comic (ala Leo Baxendale in Wham!) so maybe Lewis was a permanent replacement to ease Neville's workload. I think Main did later draw two page strips of Space Patrol and Supercar so still used on the Sci Fi stuff.

stevezodiac wrote:I think Main did later draw two page strips of Space Patrol and Supercar so still used on the Sci Fi stuff.

No, it was Bill Mevin who drew both 'Supercar' (after an initial six month stint by Harold Tamblyn-Watts) and 'Space Patrol'.

Perhaps I'm thinking of Four Feather Falls? I'm sure i've seen Neville's signature on a two page strip.

...You're probably thinking of his Fireball XL5 strip.

- Phil R.

Fireball XL5? What's that?

Is that a joke? Well, just in case it isn't...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireball_XL5

Tragically, all Colonel Zodiac's memories of the time he spent flying around the universe in Fireball XL5 were erased by the evil brain creatures of Betamax 6 at the same time they stranded him in the early years of the 21st century.

For the benefit of less afflicted souls here's an example of Neville Main's depiction of that previous life as seen in the 1964 TV Comic Annual (the same kind of opening scene that would later introduce 99% of Classic Star Trek episodes).



- Phil Rushton

What was it Matthew Matic saw? My guess is an intergalactic pie and mash shop with Neptunian jellied eels. Early closing Wednesdays.

When I used to buy pie and mash to take away the woman would say "do you want a large liquor" I wonder how Sid James would react to that?