Comics UK

I'm afraid I'm back in Scotland now so can't answer the question.

Over 100 Buddy comics for £25. Always a comic I meant to read more of.

I made a deal out of ebay and secured a near-full run of tv comic for the year 1977. Cost me an arm and leg and couple of teeth but, considering the apparent rarity of these comics and their well preserved condition, i'm reasonably chuffed.

sometimes you just luck out
I got a full year of beano comics 1977 on e-bay for £12.50 inc P&P take off the 2.80 postage and that's just over 18p per comic

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Beano-comics- ... true&rt=nc

The comics are in very good condition and even contains the 3 flyers announcing in may a change of line up (return of the Nibblers and introducing Two gun Tony and the start of Gnashers Tale) 3 free gifts coming up (pop pistol, super skimmer and a Dennis toffee bar) and then arrival of the new Plug Comic in September.
well that's me sorted for the weekend

Market stall selling two boxes of comics,(not at my prices I might add).Liked and bought the cheapest one of the bunch EVANGELINE No1(a) because it contained a complete story combining space and dinosaurs(b) the artwork was ok.To be sold at such a price the seller must have rated it lowly.

I paid a £1,looking on Ebay it is being offered for £9.99p so maybe I did ok

starscape wrote:Over 100 Buddy comics for £25. Always a comic I meant to read more of.

It's a smart little comic. I don't think you will be disappointed although I had a slight preference for his brother Spike.

Earl.

Earl wrote:

starscape wrote:Over 100 Buddy comics for £25. Always a comic I meant to read more of.

It's a smart little comic. I don't think you will be disappointed although I had a slight preference for his brother Spike.
Earl.

I did have Buddy for the duration of its run though I did find it pretty mediocre. My two favourite strips were Billy the Cat (before the artist changed) and Wilson. I wasn't sad when it merged with Victor.

Spike on the other hand I did like particular the name and lead character (drawn my the same artist who drew I-Spy?) I was sad when it merged with Champ.

If i had been running the show, I would have merged both Buddy and Champ and saw how that fared.

I bought some Spikes at the time, plus have bought a few recently. I have an alert for that out too but will only buy at knockdown prices. It would be nice but not a priority or a deliberate collection.

The Beano and Dandy Summer Specials 2015.

None but yesterday I went to Welling in SE London/Kent and a charity shop in Bellegrove Road had about 100 annuals in the Tommy Trinder (window) all for a dustbin lid each (£1). They ranged from the seventies to the nineties and the titles included Beano, Dandy, Topper, Beezer, Sparky, Whizzer and Chips, Buster, School Fun, Whoopee and Shiver & Shake. They also had a small box of Beano Mini Comics. The earliest were Beezer Books from 1972 and 1973.

Today when I was in the Works discount bookshop I saw they were selling How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way by Stan Lee and John Buscema - it had the original 1970 cover. They also have a nice folding storage case which is covered with golden age Action Comics covers.

London Agent report concluded.

I'm just wondering if the London Agent could explain to us why the cockney rhyming slang requires two words to express just the one normal word. On the plus side I will now be able to explain to my granddaughter Lois, when she next takes me to task over the matter, that I am actually correct when I pronounce windows as winders, as I always do, and prove it with a printout of London Agent's post.

Yes rhyming slang origianlly came about in the Victorian underworld so that tealeaves could rabbit to each other and any nearby grasshoppers wouldn't understand what they were on about. Only the first word would be used eg "I got a nice whistle for a lady from some ice cream down the battle cruiser"

translation "I got a nice suit for a fiver from some geezer down the boozer"

Watch the Budgie box set and you'll soon be talking like Dick Van Dyke in Mwari Poppins (he pronounces Mary that way).

Breaks into a chorus of "The Old Bamboo" and exits stage left clutching lapels.

The Bloke from the Smoke has spoken!

...Now cost kick a bo agen a wo en yed it?

- Potteries Phil

Bought 24 consecutive issues of The Joker weekly from 1929 on eBay for a fiver. No other bids. It's a shame there's little interest in such old British comics now but at least it means that those of us who do like them can pick them up cheaply.

The 1941 Chips Annual I'm showing on my blog today was also very cheap, and in great condition. There are definitely bargains out there for collectors who have interests outside of their personal nostalgia zone.

I agree Lew. I recently bought a selection of 1920s and 1930s comics like Puck, Joker, Chips and Merry & Bright from a mart at near give-away prices, yet nobody else seemed interested in them. I think people might be put off by their somewhat flimsy appearance - yet when you actually look at them they managed to cram an incredible amount of reading into a limited number of pages.