Comics UK

£3 most definitely was a good price, it's worth £25!

Today, well more like an hour ago, I bought myself a copy of the 1987 Victor Adventure Special. Got it for less than £10, so I am happy with that. Now just got to wait for it to be delivered!

I just bought 2 TV Century 21 comics from 1967, for £3 each, as new.

Just bought 3 Misty Annuals for £2 each. The doubles will eventually go on Ebay to finance my comic habit!

Today i got:

3 of the 4 new Commando's (there wasn't many in the shop, a sign of a sales increase, may i hope?)
The Misty special
Poot! relaunched issue 1 (where did that come from? nowhere near as good as Viz of course but may as well support it while it lasts. It's asking for contributors so the first issue was possibly only done by a handful of people which reduced the quality? I might send something thier way that i started to draw once, a parody of cynical cashing-in Americanised 'revivals' (ruinings) of British characters)
Classics Illustrated: Jane Eyre (i wish this had been around when i had to study it at school!)
2000AD

felneymike wrote:Classics Illustrated: Jane Eyre (i wish this had been around when i had to study it at school!)

I agree, I used a movie adaptation to help me when I had to study that book. I'm not a fan of period novels.

I picked up a handful of 1960s Dandy comics for a pound each at BICS over the weekend. Phil Clarke had a tempting stack of very old British comics too from the Thirties - Sixties.

Lew

Bought Odhams Smash! issues No. 2 and 4 for £16.75 on ebay in very good condition (No. 2 doesn't have the gift). I consider myself rather lucky because when I last saw them on ebay in similar condition, No. 2 sold for £93 and £40 (on two separate occasions), and No. 4 fetched the seller a nice amount of £134!
My seller also had a few more issues of Smash! I was after, so I bought issues No. 17 and 33 for a fiver each. I am now just 6 issues away from having a full set of both Odhams and IPC Smash. l need issues 3, 5, 7, 24, 29 and 38, all from 1966. Does anyone here have spares they would be willing to sell

felneymike wrote: Poot! relaunched issue 1 (where did that come from? nowhere near as good as Viz of course but may as well support it while it lasts. It's asking for contributors so the first issue was possibly only done by a handful of people which reduced the quality? I might send something thier way that i started to draw once, a parody of cynical cashing-in Americanised 'revivals' (ruinings) of British characters)

I sent them something in and got it rejected. apparently it was too 'Viz like' (Ironic for a Viz clone) and too similar to a character already in the comic, although I would dispute that.

Apparently they are after 'cuddly depravity' something more like OINK! than Viz. Good luck let us all know how it goes

Well, today I got my purchases from Amazon and two of them have been devoured. Judge Dredd: Origins, Commando: "Scramble!" and the Leo Rawlings book And The Dawn Came Up Like Thunder. I thoroughly enjoyed the Commando collection celebrating the Battle Of Britain, but I have only one word to describe Origins and that is
WOW!
I have enjoyed many of the epic Dredd stories, but Origins has to be one of Wagner's best IMHO. Humour, pathos, tragedy, irony, nods to continuity and dis-continuity. It's all there and just feels 'right'. And the best bit is that I still have some pennies to play with on Amazon, so any suggestions gratefully received.
Now just off to start reading Leo's book...

*suggest*

Or, if you have a few more pennies...

In Bridgnorth shropshire Oxfam shop came across a perfect copy of the 1973 Beano annual as well as loads of other comics from that era, bought the 73 copy, its like its brand new dosent even have that fusty smell every other old comic annual has! I bet there are issues of the new annual on shop shelves that are in a worse state! There was also the Dalek Book which Lew posted about not so long ago, didnt get that though. Next door in the arketplace got The second Viz annual.

Would it be worth posting a thread about nifty little shops and stuff were people have been finding comics and annuals?

Just to prove that I am a man of my word, I can report that I have acquired Crikey! 11. I bought it on Tuesday evening from redhotcomics on a Buy it Now, they emailed me yesterday to tell me they had shipped it, and it arrived this morning. You couldn't get better service.

I saw Crikey! in Spar in Ely the other day! How's that for yer improved distribution?

Today I bought
Bunty Annual's 1998 and 1995 £1 each
Dan Dare Annual 1979 £2
and 4 Eagle comics from 1988 50p each