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Received my 6 'Thunders' I bought on ebay, I have 20 now just 2 more to collect and I can die happy.
What an amazing comic everybody should own a set.

Volume 2 of The Captain, 1899-1900. The style of the title blocks and artwork reminds me of another paper i have - Boys of Our Empire.

The Captain ran 6-monthly volumes (but was a monthly, thick magazine for 6d) so it must have started in 1899. Wonder if i'll ever find volume 1?

The Broons/Oor Wullie compilation (and almost all the other DCT annuals as well as Marvel and Warner Bros ones) are in Poundland in the Glasgow area - strange, as I stated earlier as Winter Games & the Broons/Oor Wuillie Compilation were both sold out in WH Smiths, Waterstones etc in Glasgow and surrounding towns I visited before Xmas (as Digifiend stated it may be stock from Borders etc) - Nice selection of Thunder comics (well done) Ive not seen them since I first bought it when I was a kid (liked it a lot) , any chance of some scans of inside strips please??????????????/

felneymike wrote:Volume 2 of The Captain, 1899-1900. The style of the title blocks and artwork reminds me of another paper i have - Boys of Our Empire.

Sometime in the early Eighties I bought a couple of volumes of The Captain at a comic fair in Manchester. I was reading a lot of school stories at the time and those volumes seemed promising. However, I really couldn't get on with them at all so I was really delighted when a couple of years later the late Norman Shaw, comic dealer par excellence from Upper Norwood, took them off me and gave me a really good discount off a quite significant purchase of issues of Adventure and The Hotspur between 1946 and 1950, which I still have. I can still remember the feelings of pleasure and anticipation as I left his house with two fat parcels en route for Crystal Palace railway station, Euston and home. I returned many times over the years to Norman's emporium but I have never since bought another issue of The Captain or any similar publication, unless it had direct relevance to some research I was involved in. You, on the other hand, FM, if we are to judge by the papers you've been telling us you have acquired recently, would seem to be quite obsessed by papers and comics from between the turn of the century to roughly the First World War. There's obviously no reason why you shouldn't be, but as you may well be the only forum member on this particular paper trail, I'm curious to know if there is any specific reason why you have this focus. Feel free to ignore this post if you think I'm being rude which, admittedly, I sometimes am.

Speaking of Adventure I picked up this free gift yesterday. Does anybody know which edition it was originally presented with?



- Phil Rushton

Yes, Phil. Commando At War was issued with Adventure 1551 (Oct. 9 1954). It was the first of three free gifts issued by the paper under the general heading of The Big Show Picture Album. The second was War Beneath The Waves with 1599 (Sep. 10 1955), and the final one was War In The Air with 1653 (Sep. 22 1956).

Ta Phoenix!

I must say I prefer free gifts that are a kind of supplement to the comic they came with - as a collector at least; back in the day I'd have probably favoured a three-quarter scale nuclear submarine with working missiles!

- Phil Rushton

philcom55 wrote:back in the day I'd have probably favoured a three-quarter scale nuclear submarine with working missiles!

I know just how you must have felt, Phil. I had some sadistic teachers as well.

Phoenix wrote:

felneymike wrote:Volume 2 of The Captain, 1899-1900. The style of the title blocks and artwork reminds me of another paper i have - Boys of Our Empire.

Sometime in the early Eighties I bought a couple of volumes of The Captain at a comic fair in Manchester. I was reading a lot of school stories at the time and those volumes seemed promising. However, I really couldn't get on with them at all so I was really delighted when a couple of years later the late Norman Shaw, comic dealer par excellence from Upper Norwood, took them off me and gave me a really good discount off a quite significant purchase of issues of Adventure and The Hotspur between 1946 and 1950, which I still have. I can still remember the feelings of pleasure and anticipation as I left his house with two fat parcels en route for Crystal Palace railway station, Euston and home. I returned many times over the years to Norman's emporium but I have never since bought another issue of The Captain or any similar publication, unless it had direct relevance to some research I was involved in. You, on the other hand, FM, if we are to judge by the papers you've been telling us you have acquired recently, would seem to be quite obsessed by papers and comics from between the turn of the century to roughly the First World War. There's obviously no reason why you shouldn't be, but as you may well be the only forum member on this particular paper trail, I'm curious to know if there is any specific reason why you have this focus. Feel free to ignore this post if you think I'm being rude which, admittedly, I sometimes am.

I got interested in them after discovering Sexton Blake, but then branched out into pretty much any Boys' Own type stuff from the era you mentioned (though i do extend up to 1940, when "graveyard week" killed off a lot of papers). As for why i like it... i don't really know. Maybe it's the escapism (people of the time certianly needed a bit of that!), maybe it's the old fashioned "right is right and wrong is wrong" attitudes which make for villains you can be pleased get defeated, or maybe it's just the fact that so distant an era seems completley alien to somebody who can't even remember the 1980's all that well that the stories seem a lot more "fantastic" than they did when they first came out.

As for DCT story papers, i have a few volumes of those but the in-story recaps annoy me a lot. Maybe one day i'll actually go to a proper collectors fair/specalist shop and see if i can swap the volumes for some Boys' Friend or Union Jack!

(Incedentally i don't really go much on the stories in The Captain either - i was reading a serial school story from 1917 recently, about a school that's 'really' run by it's bursar, who brings in a load of dodgy, horrible food to save money and make more of a profit for himself, there's a big climactic rebellion which is then broken - so Ivassumed the pupils would change tack and find another way of defeating "The B", but instead he story just ends! (With a character who had been fairly minor in the first half and only one of several in the second half leaving the school)

felneymike wrote: As for DCT story papers, i have a few volumes of those but the in-story recaps annoy me a lot.

Thanks for your reply, FM, and your explanation. As for the in-story recaps in the DCT papers, I agree they were irritating and could very easily have been replaced by a For New Readers panel, which they actually were on a regular basis, but only in selected serials.

Today I was really happy as one item I have been waiting for from ebay has turned up. I received a copy of the Dandy Monster Comic 1946 today It is in fairly good condition considering its age, though the spine is near enough all gone, and a couple of pages are loose (but still all there). As you can guess, this didn't come cheap, at £63, but in my books (excuse the pun) its well worth it!
Also today, I received the facsimile copies of the Beano and Dandy issue 1 comics (costing £26 for the two). and 4 Beezer and Topper comics (as in the single comic after they joined together) including the first issue, for £1.95.

Four well-read copies including Issue No 1 (22nd October 1977) and 21st January, 18th March & 1st April 1978. Issue No 1 is in reasonable, dusty condition (lacking free gift) The copy from 18th March 1978 has had the top righthand corner clipped throughout..all for £2.99... ...great to see the first Cheeky comic at last...who cares if its a bit rough.as long as its complete and readable..and at £2.99 you can't complain..

also bought
Buster comics. Issues 27.04.85, issue09.06.84 (no School Fun section), Buster and Monster Fun holiday special 1985, issue 12.04.86, issue 24.08.85, issue 19.11.83, issue 04.12.82, issue 20.11.82, issue 26.02.83, issue 05.02.83issue 25.09.82, issue 30.04.83, a summer special without a cover and holiday special from 1985.

for £4.20..so my childhood will come to life..love that..I have a few of the above But still worth the buy..

I've bought lots of folders and put my Beanos inside them...into years..sometimes 1 year into two folders..hopefully it will stop them tearing as I take from the bottom of the pile.also keeping them in some kind of order..also they are kept in a box room on shelves..
If only I could find folders for larger comics like Whoopee..Buster..etc..

Got the Cheeky number 1 today....great to have.But there are four centre pages missing...

oh well it did come with three other Cheekys I didn't have and was cheap.still annoying..

I thought a comic had somehow got itself inadvertently lodged in my copy of The Guardian this morning. You can imagine how relieved I was on realising that it was only the cover of its G2 supplement.

Peter Gray wrote:Got the Cheeky number 1 today....great to have.But there are four centre pages missing...

oh well it did come with three other Cheekys I didn't have and was cheap.still annoying..

If memory serves me correctly the centrespread was a poster of Cheeky on a skateboard, but the reverse may have had story pages.

Lew