Comics UK

I've recently seen some photographs of old newsagents and they all seem to display advertising posters for the latest comics. I know these were quite common and were used to advertise a new title or a free gift etc., and I think they look really nice. I've searched around and have found a few images of them, these two are found online (the Lot-O'-Fun poster is avaliable for £80!). Does anybody have images of any more of these? They've really nice artwork on them, these two are by Bertie Brown (Lot-O'-Fun) and Reg Parlett (Jester).

Here is one for Buster No. 1. It was offered by Compal auctios in the summer of 2010 and someone paid £145 for it. According to the description, the double-sided colour poster measures 10 x 7 ins.

I can remember in the mid sixties people standing out outside my school giving out flyers for new comics

I remember with DCT where you would get a four-page (pink) flyer heralding the launch of a new comic in their other publications.

SID wrote:I remember with DCT where you would get a four-page (pink) flyer heralding the launch of a new comic in their other publications.

It wasn't just DCT that did it. IPC also included them in other comics when a new title was launched.

George Shiers wrote:

SID wrote:I remember with DCT where you would get a four-page (pink) flyer heralding the launch of a new comic in their other publications.

It wasn't just DCT that did it. IPC also included them in other comics when a new title was launched.

So they did (but not pink).

Here's a few more interesting items. Not posters, but IPC's promotional folders for Whoopee and Tornado. Incidentally both comics are undated because they are pre print run copies. Both sold on Compal Comics a few years ago, the Tornado for £121 in Autumn 2011 and the Whoopee for £185 in Winter 2011.

SID wrote:

George Shiers wrote:

SID wrote:I remember with DCT where you would get a four-page (pink) flyer heralding the launch of a new comic in their other publications.

It wasn't just DCT that did it. IPC also included them in other comics when a new title was launched.

So they did (but not pink).

Well, salmon-pink. A different shade to Thomson's inserts:
http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2009/ ... s-no1.html

George Shiers wrote:Here's a few more interesting items. Not posters, but IPC's promotional folders for Whoopee and TV Tornado. Incidentally both comics are undated because they are pre print run copies.

The first issue of Whoopee wasn't dated anyway. I think it had been delayed perhaps so they didn't put a date on it.

George Shiers wrote:Here's a few more interesting items. Not posters, but IPC's promotional folders for Whoopee and TV Tornado. Incidentally both comics are undated because they are pre print run copies. Both sold on Compal Comics a few years ago, the TV Tornado for £121 in Autumn 2011 and the Whoopee for £185 in Winter 2011.

£121 for TV Tornado I could well believe. But the comic you are showing is Tornado from 1979 which I cannot believe.

But it does take you back. Opening up your existing comic and finding an insert and thinking: "I want to get that!".

Now if there was a book featuring advertising posters/inserts that have been produced over the years. I would certainly want to buy a copy.

SID wrote:

George Shiers wrote:Here's a few more interesting items. Not posters, but IPC's promotional folders for Whoopee and TV Tornado. Incidentally both comics are undated because they are pre print run copies. Both sold on Compal Comics a few years ago, the TV Tornado for £121 in Autumn 2011 and the Whoopee for £185 in Winter 2011.

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£121 for TV Tornado I could well believe. But the comic you are showing is Tornado which I cannot believe.

But it does take you back. Opening up your existing comic and finding an insert and thinking: "I want to get that!".

Now if there was a book featuring all the advertising posters/inserts that have been produced over the years. I would certainly want to buy a copy.

Oh whoops - it is just Tornado! I'll edit it, but yes - it did sell for £121!

That would make a good book. I wonder if it could be done - are all the posters still in existence? I'm sure the publishers kept them, but then again many publishers are no longer around.

SID wrote:
But it does take you back. Opening up your existing comic and finding an insert and thinking: "I want to get that!".

Now if there was a book featuring advertising posters/inserts that have been produced over the years. I would certainly want to buy a copy.

Did you see this one I posted on my blog last week, Sid?

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... -1971.html

Lew Stringer wrote:

SID wrote:
But it does take you back. Opening up your existing comic and finding an insert and thinking: "I want to get that!".

Now if there was a book featuring advertising posters/inserts that have been produced over the years. I would certainly want to buy a copy.

Did you see this one I posted on my blog last week, Sid?

http://lewstringer.blogspot.co.uk/2014/ ... -1971.html

Thanks, Lew. I have just read it.

George Shiers wrote:Oh whoops - it is just Tornado! I'll edit it, but yes - it did sell for £121!

That would make a good book. I wonder if it could be done - are all the posters still in existence? I'm sure the publishers kept them, but then again many publishers are no longer around.

Bloody hell! I stand corrected. It must be the flyer that did it I suspect.

Regarding the book, I am surprised that no-one has thought of it.

SID wrote:Regarding the book, I am surprised that no-one has thought of it.

I know D.C Thomson own a copy of everything they publish so it wouldn;t be impossible to find their stuff but I wonder if stuff from Amalgamated Press exists any more, if it did it would only be in private collections surely? I wonder if such a book could be put together through ComicsUK?