The very best of Black Bob and other news..

[Peter Gray]

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3 June 2010
This is just the best news ever...
Its what we've been asking for ages..hopefully this will lead to mkore Black Bob books in the future..

[Digifiend]

Haha, I see they're parodying the title of Dangerous Book for Boys by releasing Oor Wullie's Dungarees Book For Boys.

[wilsia]

I agree Peter, I loved Black Bob as a kid, still do now. Cant wait
until June.

Like the way they are doing it in the style of the old Black Bob annuals.

Lets hope there is more on the way

[felneymike]

A "widescreen" format annual with a cloth bound spine? It'll be like the 40's never ended (only with less bombs). Can't wait!

[Lew Stringer]

It's fantastic news and completely unexpected.

If you go to the annuals section of Comics UK you'll see the cover is based on the 1953 edition, although most of the books used the same image every edition:

http://www.comicsuk.co.uk/Annuals/AnnualWhole.asp

Black Bob was one of my favourite strips. I only have the 1961 and 1965 annuals so I'm definitely buying this book.

[stevezodiac]

Lets hope the Guardian doesn't insist it is retitled the best of Non-White Bob.

[Peter Gray]

First, and perhaps most interestingly, 3 June 2010 will see the release of The Very Best Of Black Bob. This £9.99 hardback will reprint stories of "The Dandy Wonder Dog" who first appeared in the comic in November 1944 and remained with it into the 1980s. It will be presented in the same landscape format as the very rare 1950s Black Bob annuals and include an introduction from DC Thomson archivist and former Dandy editor Morris Heggie as well as a Black Bob story listing from comics historian Ray Moore, an expert on DC Thomson.

from down the tube

So Ray Moore is helping..
I wonder if at comicsuk forum and blog posts on Black Bob has inspired this book..

I really hope new people will enjoy the stories.as it is timeless..doesn't age in a funny way..
Jack Prout drew amazing detail..and really caught the 30's period of farm life and all round the world..

[tony ingram]

Wonderful news-Bob is an old favourite, I still have some Bob albums somewhere and they never fail to cheer me up. Definitely going to grab this one!

[Kashgar]

As you can imagine I was really pleased to be asked to help with this celebration of all things Bob. My main contribution being an index to all the Black Bob text stories and picture strips that have appeared over the years including details of all his appearances in the Weekly News cross-referenced with details of their eventual reprinting in the later Dandy comics, Dandy annuals and, of course, the eight editions of the Black Bob Book.
And, if you want to learn more about Black Bob and his creators, particularly artist Jack Prout and initial writer Kelman Frost, then you'll need look no further than Morris Heggie's excellent introduction.

[Peter Gray]

Are there any Black Bob stories yet to be published
which were shown in Weekly News But not in the Dandy..that would be nice to see one day..

[Kashgar]

Are there any Black Bob stories yet to be published
which were shown in Weekly News But not in the Dandy..that would be nice to see one day..

If and when you get the book Peter it will hopefully answer all such questions but in the meantime I can say that only two picture serials from the Weekly News have failed to be reprinted subsequently as well as a number of complete stories. A fair number of series that were reprinted though weren't necessarily reprinted in their entirity with the odd episode and incident dropped here and there.

[Phoenix]

And, if you want to learn more about Black Bob and his creators, particularly artist Jack Prout and initial writer Kelman Frost, then you'll need look no further than Morris Heggie's excellent introduction.

Am I right in saying, Kashgar, that Kelman Frost wrote stories about both The Red MacGregor and The Wolf Of Kabul, and if so were they text or picture stories?

[Kashgar]

Kelman Frost didn't write any Red MacGregor / Morgyn the Mighty stories for use in the picture papers although a number of his prose stories featuring these characters, that he had written for the Thomson boys' story papers, were subsequently adapted by the editorial dept to be used in that way. Kelman Frost was phenomonally adept at producing highly readable yarns on all sorts of subjects and, in his prime, was somewhat akin, in terms of output, to Charles Hamilton over at the AP.
By 1960 however he had basically given up producing work for the weekly papers to concentrate on his novel writing, although much of that was still aimed at older children and was something which he continued till his death in 1972.
He also had a younger brother Vernon Frost who was a regular contributor to the Thomson papers, writing many of the Red Circle school stories.

[Phoenix]

When I saw your reference to Kelman Frost in your earlier post on Black Bob, I immediately associated his name with Morgyn and The Wolf of Kabul but without being able to recall why. Thank you, Ray, for that confirmation.

[wilsia]

Kasshgar

Being involved in this book, how long does it take in the case of this book when a publisher decides to publish and when it is on the shelves for sale.

Secondly do you see anymore of these cassic books being published

Hope you dont me asking, I cant wait to get read black Bobs adventures again.