Comics UK

I visited a friend yesterday and we did the usual swap of comics and books. But, he was also sorting out stuff for the next mart and I had a look through the pile, ending up buying vols. 1 & 2 of Archie Marries Veronica/Betty tpb's; 2 umpteen hundred page digest Archie vols; a small pile of Dells and GK's. He then gave me some 2000AD issues, a Look & Learn; Tales of Terror #10 (the digest library); Hornet #129; 3 x war libraries and the 6th Edition Archie Annual, being a b&w reprint published by G.G. Swan.
What a good day.

Bought the Beano from WHSmith. Should've been £3.20 this week because it was bagged with gifts. They charged the usual £2.20!

50 issues (as in 1 to 50) of The Crunch for a very reasonable £8 (though I gave him £10). Also came across a shop with loads of Alan Class (£3-5), although I didn't get any.

starscape wrote:50 issues (as in 1 to 50) of The Crunch for a very reasonable £8 (though I gave him £10).

You only need four more for the full run, starscape.

Around 50 Whooppees! for a fiver and then 11 comic annuals including 1960 and 64 Beezer and some other nice Buster for another fiver. You can't beat car boot sales!

Didn't buy it, but I did receive this little beauty from Argentina today.

TV Comics Bugs Bunny Winter Special 1977. Never knew anything about this beforehand... as a keen voyeur of this particular year, I'm well chuffed. Cost a big Still, overtime is plentifully available.

Digifiend wrote:Bought the Beano from WHSmith. Should've been £3.20 this week because it was bagged with gifts. They charged the usual £2.20!

No wonder I could only afford one cup of tea yesterday.

Ranger No. 1! Yay!! We kids had a subscription to Look and Learn, so I bought a pile of Rangers years ago to see where Rob Riley, Jason January Space Cadet, and The Trigan Empire had come from. Fleetway's answer to Eagle, and a very good one I think. A pity it didn't last long.

That pirate page is fantastic! Very baroque. Which comic is it from?

I agree about Ranger - and about Coolcol's fantastic piece of artwork. Is that by the amazing Quique Alcatena? And if you didn't pay for it how many body parts did you swap for it Col? I'd kill for a piece like that!

suebutcher wrote: ...That pirate page is fantastic! Very baroque. Which comic is it from?

It is from a graphic novel called Windward (Barlovento). It was published in South America about five years ago. From what I have read about it, think of the Iliad done as a pirate story!

philcom55 wrote:Is that by the amazing Quique Alcatena? And if you didn't pay for it how many body parts did you swap for it Col? I'd kill for a piece like that!

Yes, it is by Quique. I was actually asking for the price of a commission. And for the princely sum of being one of his fans and writing the review of Arena, published by Bear Alley Books, on the Down The Tubes website, he was kind enough to ask me for my address and this turned up on my doorstep a week later!

I'm green with envy. Quique is not only one of the best comic artists to work on either side of the Atlantic - he's also one of the nicest!

philcom55 wrote:I'm green with envy. Quique is not only one of the best comic artists to work on either side of the Atlantic - he's also one of the nicest!

The bit that got me was that I spoke to his agent raving ecstatically about his early work and I kept getting the answer that it wasn't that good. And I kept disagreeing, pointing out that Quique's work had opened the world of surrealism to me and that his early work still had appeal after all these years.

And tonight, I attended an evening of comic appreciation in Glasgow and bought all five of Jim Alexander's anthology and the Burke and Hare GN by Martin Conaghan and Will Pickering

By post today, 3 Pearsons TV Picture Story Libraries. 1 x Last of The Mohicans; 1x Buccaneers; 1 x Sword of Freedom.

This week I received a copy o Ranger number 1 from ebay which cost me £10. It has a cardboard advert and string at the top for hanging up in a newsagents. Quite a unique find.