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British Comics - Titles 1 of 2
British Comics - Titles: General British
Comic Sites and Speciifc Sites from 2000AD to Knockout
Information welcome!
Jump to • Advice on Buying Comics and Auction Sites • British Comics History and General Reference • Fleetway Comics Reference • IPC • Marvel UK Reference
Jump to: Specific Comics Titles including: 2000AD • Action! • Action Force • Battle • The Beano • Buster • Commando Picture Library • Countdown • Crisis • The Dandy • DFC • Eagle • Girl • Hornet • Jackie Chan Adventures • Jinty • Knockout
• Visit this page for links to sites about Lion to Wizard
• Visit this page for British
Comics Characters from ABC Warriors to Janus Stark
• Visit this page for British
Comic Characters from James Bond and Jeff Hawke to Modesty Blaise
• Visit this page for British
Comic Characters from the O-Men Wicked Wanda
Buying
Comics Advice
Please note: any "buying
advice" posted
below relating to individual comicsis intended as a rough
guide only, posted in repsonse to queries from
fans interested in buying comics via ebay or elsewhere:
it is not definitive
and may be outdated.
• E-Bay has several guides to buying comics online: search.reviews.ebay.com/buying-comics-online
Dedicated Comics Auction Sites
26 Pigs Auction
Room: www.26pigs.com/auctionroom
Comic Book Postal Auctions: www.compalcomics.com
Auctions of British and US comics, artwork, and comic
book ephemera. This site includes Market
Reports with information on recent sales
• Please do not ask
me for info on grading comics, I am not a
vaulation expert.
British Comics History
For an overview of
the history of British comics, check out the brilliant ComicsUK.co.uk
site. It is attempting to list and detail as many British
comics that have been published since Funny Folks (the
first British comic) hit the shops, back in 1874.
There's also another site, recently updated, called simply
British
Comics (www.britishcomics.20m.com)
which deals mainly with the adventure comics of the 1950s, 1960s & 1970s
especially The
Hotspur, The Rover, The
Wizard and British Pocket Libraries. Another
site, Retro
World colinspace.future.easyspace.com/index2.html)
is also a mine of comics information
• The BBC has its own comics web site (www.bbc.co.uk/cult/comics),
which in addition to interviews with comics creators, audio comics from
Big Finish and its own online strip, Work Experience by Simon Spurrier
and Steve Roberts, includes articles on British humour comics
by Lew Stringer, Girls Comics by Jac Rayner and recent science fiction and boys Comics by former 2000AD editor David Bishop
This site is no longer being updated.
• The
All Devon Comic Collectors Club
E-mail: dave.westaway@homecall.co.uk
An offshoot of the old South West CCC, this is mainly centred on the
Exeter area and continues the relentless search for prime quality images
for the (complete) British story booklets that is their raison d'etre.The
desire of elder members to see old newspaper strips again, linked with
the poor quality of the yellowing photocopies that were doing the rounds,
provided the impetus for the club to decide to track down and reprint
'lost' Garth strips. A search for other British
titles naturally followed; Romeo Brown, Paul
Temple etc. and is very much
ongoing.
Co-ordinator Dave Westaway has been searching for Matt Marriott strips for some time. Artist Tony Weare produced what is generally considered the most authentic Western stories in black/white for over 22 years from 1955-1977. Never reprinted in the UK, the club eventually managed to track down the recipient of much of his artwork through his estate and have purchased 15 of his original scrapbooks, each with one story in sequence, from the third story onwards.
Although these are newspaper clippings rather than printers proofs the results are still quite acceptable and the ADCC gradually will be putting these out over the next three years. In addition several other stories have been bought in taken directly from original artwork. The first two stories in the series were reprinted in 1960 in the Knockout and these are available from the Archive Adventure Club series (ask us for details if required).
As a small club and having restraints from Mirror Group as to how many copies per title can be made available to members they tend to struggle with their cash flow a bit so have relaxed membership to allow 'remote' members in.
The group has put out 10 booklets a year to full members of which at least six are Garth. Below is a complete list of all their publications to date.
The club has gained
access to artist Jim Holdaway's Romeo Brown printers
proofs - a club member tells me the original artwork was all destroyed
by a managing director who didn't find them funny.
Last year permission was gained to reprint the Carol
Day strips for the
first time. We are holding out for copies from original artwork so progress
is slow but rewarding in image quality.
The ADCCC asks that if anyone ever comes across any collectors with decent quality old British strips to swap or sell please let them know - there's a lot out there that they just cannot track down at all. List of wants available from Dave. The club puts out frequent artist/scripwriter Biogs and would be delighted to contact surviving creators.
All the Frank Bellamy non-Titan titles are on their back issue list. You can get more details by sending an SAE to: ADCCC, 96 Ashleigh Road, Exmouth, Devon, EX8 2JZ
Booklets are anything between 20-40 pages usually carrying one complete story and their aim with Garth was to reprint all stories from 1943 up to about 1975/76.
The club encourages interest in and reprinting of old strips whenever possible and has recently provided colour Garth strips for Spaceship Away and information on strips to Crikey Magazine and authors of Comic Book lore.
It also currently acts as Proof Reader to the W E Johns Biggles series.
Daily Strips: Collectors Club Editions Full List
No.1 Garth: Bride of Jenghiz Khan (Bellamy)
No.2 Romeo Brown: Arabian Knight (Holdaway)
No.3 Garth: Spanish Lady (Bellamy)
No.4 Garth: Sapphire (Asbury)
No.5 Garth: Meets Jack the Ripper (Dowling)
No.6 Romeo Brown: Where there's a Will (Holdaway)
No.7 Garth: The Doomsmen (Bellamy)
No.8 Garth: Mr. Rubio Calls (Asbury)
No.9 Garth: The First Story. (Dowling/Allard)
No.10 Garth: Children of the Dawn/The Island Laboratory. (Dowling/Allard)
No.11 Dick Turpin: The Ride To York (Eyles)
No.12 Garth: The Saga of Garth (Dowling/Allard)
No.13 Garth:The Angels of Hell's Gap (Bellamy)
No.14 Romeo Brown: Lord of the Fiery Dragon (Holdaway)
No.15 Paul Temple: The Aphrodite Affair
No.16 Garth: The Awakening of Garth (Dowling/Hailstone)
No.17 Garth: Freak Out to Fear (Bellamy)
No.18 Romeo Brown: The Fightin' Females (Holdaway)
No.19 Garth: The Beautiful People (Bellamy)
No.20 Tug Transom: The Lady In The Tower (Sindall)
No.21 (Paul Temple: Gun Runners**) WITHDRAWN
No.22 Billy the Bee: Billy and the Beast (Smith)
No.23 Garth: The Wreckers (Bellamy)
No.24 (Paul Temple: Operation Shrike**) WITHDRAWN
No.25 Garth: Voyage into Time (Allard/Asbury)
No.26 John Wayne: Red River
No.27 Romeo Brown: The Trouble With Tania (Holdaway)
No.28 Garth: The Bubble Man (Bellamy)
No.29 Garth: The Fantastic Doctor Quyn (Dowling/Allard)
No.30 Jane: P. C. Jane (Mike Hubbard)
No.31 Garth: The Big Joker (Dowling/Allard)
No.32 Romeo Brown: The Gipsy's Curse (Holdaway)
No.33 Tug Transom: The Lost Tomb of Topicaca (Sindall)
No.34 Matt Marriott: Overland (Weare)
No.35 Garth: The Troll (Dowling/Allard)
No.36 Garth: The Crystals of Camelot (Dowling/Allard)
No.37 Garth: Lord of the Computers (Dowling/Allard)
No.38 Garth: The Wakening (Dowling/Allard)
No.39 Monty Carstairs Casebook (Bellamy)
No.40 Garth: The Invaders (Dowling/Allard)
No.41 Susie of the Sunday Dispatch (Pett)
No.42 Garth: Selim The Slaver (Dowling/Allard)
No.43 Garth and the Glove Game (Dowling/Allard)
No.44 Paul Temple and the Runaway Knight
No.45 Buck Ryan: The Case Of The Broken Thistle (Monk)
No.46 Garth: Space-Time Rivals (Dowling/Allard)
No.47 Garth: Flight Into The Future (Dowling/Allard)
No.48 Romeo Brown: Gigi and the Head-Shrinkers (Holdaway)
No.49 Garth: The Phantom Pharaoh (Dowling/Allard)
No.50 Ruggles: A Ruggles For All Seasons (Dowling)
No.51 Romeo Brown: The Missing Ming Vase (Holdaway)
No.52 Garth: Wings Of The Night (Dowling/Allard)
No.53 Garth: Invasion From Space (Dowling/Allard)
No.54 Romeo Brown: The Frolics of Fifi (Holdaway)
No.55 Garth: The 7 Ages of Garth (Part 1) (Dowling/Allard)
No.56 Garth: The 7 Ages of Garth (Part 2) (Dowling/Allard)
No.57 Garth: The 7 Ages of Garth (Part 3) (Dowling/Allard)
No.58 Paul Temple: Death Sitting Down
No.59 Romeo Brown: The Empress's Garters (Holdaway)
No.60 Garth: Outlaws (Asbury)
No.61 Garth: The Brain (Dowling/Allard)
No.62 Garth: The Web of Dionara (Dowling/Allard)
No.63 Garth: The Glenoig Miracle (Dowling/Allard)
No.64 Garth: Exiles (Allard)
No.65 Garth: The Teenager (Dowling/Allard)
No.66 Garth Meets Hitler in: The Rebels (Dowling/Allard)
No.67 Romeo Brown: The Secret of Black Barbary (Holdaway)
No.68 Paul Temple: The Affair Of The Tired Tiger (Mazure)
No.69 Tug Transom: The Sun's Anvil (Sindall)
No.70 Jane: Georgie Tries Again
(Mike Hubbard)
No.71 Romeo Brown: Romeo The Ruthless (Holdaway)
No.72 Garth: The 13th Man (Dowling/Allard)
No.73 Romeo Brown: The Girl and the Ghoul (Holdaway)
No.74 Garth: Meets the Werewolf: Wolfman of Ausensee (Bellamy)
No.75 Garth: The Wonder Women (Allard/Dowling)
No.76 Garth: Man Hunt (Allard/Dowling)
No.77 Romeo Brown: The Con-Man (Holdaway)
No.78 Matt Marriott: Showdown In Dodge City (Weare)
No.79 Garth: The Hand Of Attila (Allard/Dowling)
No.80 J. G. Reeder Terror Keep - Edgar Wallace (Monk)
No.81 Moomin and Family Life (Tove Jansson)
No.82 Garth: Blood Sport (Asbury)
No.83 Romeo Brown: Romeo Goes West (Holdaway)
No.84 Paul Temple: The Cabloni Affair
No.85 Moomin and the Brigands (Tove Jansson)
No.86 Garth: Vengeance of Venn (Asbury)
No.87 Romeo Brown: The King of the Beatniks (Holdaway)
No.88 Garth: Warriors Of Krull (Dowling)
No.89 Romeo Brown: The Snow Maiden (Holdaway)
No.90 Garth in Hollywood (Allard/Dowling)
No.91 Paul Temple: The Au Pair Affair
No.92 Moomin On The Riviera (Tove Jansson)
No.93 Paul Temple: The Barracombe Boxes
No.94 Romeo Brown: The Missing Miss Peach (Holdaway)
No.95 Paul Temple: Meets The Erasers
No.96 Romeo Brown: The Richest Girl In The World (Holdaway)
No.97 Romeo Brown: Romeo On The Run (Holdaway)
No.98 Tug Transom: The Yokohama Frame (Sindall)
No.99 Matt Marriott: Belle Bensons Daughter (Weare)
No.100 Garth: The Last Goddess (Dowling/Allard)
No.101 Romeo Brown: The Baffling Ballerina (Holdaway)
No.102 Romeo Brown: The Nobblers (Holdaway)
No.103 Seekers: The Tracy Madison Affair (Burns)
No.104 Matt Marriott: Powders Nephew (Weare)
No.105 Garth: The Time Lock (Dowling/Allard)
No.106 Seekers: Goddess of the Seven Moons (Burns)
No.107 Garth: The Syndicate (Allard)
No.108 Seekers: The Man Who Died Twice (Burns)
No.109 Buck Ryan: The Laughing Killer (Monk)
No.110 Garth: The Great Beast (Asbury)
No.111 Garth: Nightmare In Paris (Asbury)
No.112 Garth: La Belle Sauvage (Asbury)
No.113 Garth: Hammer Of Thorwald (Asbury)
No.114 Matt Marriott: Pandora in Marshall of Fireweed (Weare)
No.115 Seekers: Legs On Broadway (Burns)
No.116 Seekers: Dead Girls Tell (Burns)
No.117 Garth: This Land is Mine (Asbury)
No.118 Paul Temple : The Great Jewel Robbery
No.119 Garth: Viva El Garto! (Asbury)
No.121 Garth: Tigress (Asbury)
No.123 Garth: Mistress Orange (Asbury)
No.124 Garth: Z File (Asbury)
No.125 Garth: The Picture (Asbury)
No.126 Garth: Dam Drivers (Asbury)
No.127 Garth: Winning is All (Asbury)
No.130 Seekers: Hoop Of Fire (Burns)
No.131 Romeo Brown: The Admirals Grand-Daughter (Holdaway)
No.132 Tug Transom: Home is the Sailor... (Sindall)
No.133 Carol Day: Carol Goes To Town (Wright)
No.134 Garth: Man On the Edge (Asbury)
No.135 Carol Day: Meets Edward Black (Wright)
No.136 Seekers: Murder In The Boneyard (Burns)
No.137 Romeo Brown: Fingles Follies (Holdaway)
No.138 Matt Marriott: Last of the Cattle Barons (Weare)
No.139 Garth: Days Of Doom (Allard/Asbury)
No.140 Seekers: The Missing Groom (Burns)
No.141 Matt Marriott: Last Days Of Augie Spencer (Weare)
No.142 Ruggles: Ruggles Goes To France (Dowling)
No.143 Seekers: Everybody Wants Cyrius (Burns)
No.144 Matt Marriott: Zincville Colorado (Weare)
No.145 Carol Day: Paris Episode (Wright)
No.146 Seekers: Art Theft (Burns)
No.147 Matt Marriott: Sheriff Hayden (Weare)
No.148 Garth: Finality Factor (Asbury)
No.149 Seekers: The Missing Golfers (Burns)
No.150 Garth: The Golden Slayer (Dowling/Allard)
No.151 Seekers: The Bookman Vanishes (Burns)
No.152 Garth: The Islands of
Kaa (Dowling/Allard)
No.153 Carol Day: Problem Child (Wright)
No.154 Matt Marriott: Ghost Town (Weare)
No.155 Garth: Space-Time Traveller (Dowling/Allard)
No.156 Seekers: Red Elibank (Burns)
No.157 Buck Ryan: Brides of the Swastika (Monk)
No.158 Garth: Time Couriers (Dowling)
No.180 Four D Jones: The Coming of the Disc (Maddocks)
No.181 Buck Ryan: A Lady Disappears - Part one (Monk)
No.182 Buck Ryan: A Lady Disappears - Part two (Monk)
No.183 Scarth: Mars Slave (Roca)
CLUB SPECIALS
Captain Flame - rare Eric Parker 1952 Pirate strip. (Parker)
The Pathfinder - Story of Leonard Cheshire; Years 1917-1960 (Manwaring)
Mighty Joe Young 1949 (Robert Macgillivray)
Monty Carstairs and The Mystery Of The Black Pearls 1953 (Bellamy)
Billy Brave: The Secret On The Moors (Weare)
Judy Book 1: Murder In Paris (Wright)
Wes Slade : Dodge City (Stokes)
The Battle of BeecherÕs Island (Campion)
Judy Book 2: The Lost Treasure Of Zexitcico (Wright)
Gun Law - Seven Stories of Matt Dillon (Bishop)
Glory of the Fireships (Manwaring)
Garth - The Index 1943-2009
SPACEMAN SPECIALS
1. Bill Merrill of the Scientific Investigation Bureau Book One (Embleton)
2. Space Captain Jim Stalwart (Cornwall)
3. Captain Future (Light)
4. The Ghost World (Bellamy)
** = Withdrawn until better quality originals can be traced
• Bear Alley
Link: bearalley.blogspot.com
Steve Holland's superb blog about old British comics, packed with profiles
of artists, snippets of current comics news and more. Definitely one
worth bookmarking.
• The Gerry Anderson Complete
Comic History
Link: www.technodelic.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
This incredibly detailed site charts the entire history of Gerry Anderson's shows
in comic strip, show by show, from his earliest ventures right through to the
present day. It's a beautifully constructed site with plenty of well-researched
features, interviews and plenty more.
This is simply one of the best themed comic strip sites on the web and if you're
a Gerry Anderson fan, it should not be missed. Congratulations to all involved
-- this is a true labour of love.
• Nigel's
Gallery of Childrens' Annuals is a great stopping off point for a snapshot
of these perennial publications down the years.
Terry Hooper
Official: www.hooperart.4t.com
Terry Hooper has been writing, drawing, and self-publishing comic books
in England for -- well years, with some titles running forover 50 or
60 separate issues. He has also been a key figure in recording British
comics history, interviewing comics artists and writers from older as
well as newer, and quite well-known British comics titles, as well as
maintaining several news groups deciated to different comics and genres.
• Tony's Trading (www.tonystrading.co.uk) is
a terrific site: not only featuring photographs of a collector's many
and varied collections -- from bottles to cereal box figures -- but a
wonderful gallery of British comic annual covers spanning over four decades.
• Jim
Croasdale's British Comics Art Site
A website to show off the work of British comic artists. At the moment
it's quite small with work by Joe Colquhoun, Mike McMahon, Geoff Campion
and Mike Western, but Jim would eventually like to add work by Brian
Lewis and Ron Embleton, among others.
• The British Cartoon Archive
Web: library.kent.ac.uk/cartoons/
CartoonHub, hosted by the website of the British Cartoon Archive. The
British Cartoon Archive was established in 1973 at the University of
Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom, to collect and preserve British cartoons
of social and political comment, and make them freely available for study.
The
British Cartoon Archive has a library, archive, gallery, and is a registered
museum dedicated to the history of British cartooning over the last 200
years. CartoonHub describes the Centre's holdings, but is also a guide
to the holdings of other archives and galleries, including the partners
in the RSLP CartoonHub Project.
CartoonHub is also the world's
largest electronic archive of cartoons, with a catalogued database of
over 90,000 images. The majority of these come from the British Cartoon
Archive's collections, but the database also incorporates significant
cartoon collections from the National Library of Wales, the Library of
the London School of Economics, and the John Rylands University Library
of Manchester.
The images on CartoonHub are under copyright, and may only
be reproduced with the permission of the copyright owners. The British
Cartoon Archive maintains contact with the owners of copyright in all
its collections, and is happy to put researchers in touch with them.
• The
British Library Newspaper Library holds a number of comics (Legally,
every Biritsh publisher - even small press comics publishers - are expected
to file copies with them). Find out more at: www.bl.uk/collections/comlist.html
Land Address: The British Library, Newspaper Library, Colindale
Avenue, London NW9 5HE
General Enquiries: Tel: +44 (0)20 7412 7353 Fax: +44 (0)20 7412
7379
Email: newspaper@bl.uk
• Comics in the National Art Library
Link: www.nal.vam.ac.uk/nalcomic.html
Until the mid-1980s, the National Art Library's coverage
of comics and comic art was uneven and spasmodic. In the 19th century,
illustrated books and children's books were actively collected (as they
are today) and some of the classic precursors of 20th century comics
found their way into the collections: books such as Rodolphe Töpffer's L'histoire
véritable de Monsieur Crépin (Paris, 1837), Adolf Schrödter's
Herrn Piepmeyer (Frankfurt, 1848), several 19th century editions of Heinrich
Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz. Individual
items continued to be acquired in the 20th century, but the Library's
holdings have been significantly enhanced by the acquisition of a number
of major collections in recent years.
• British Juvenile Story Papers and
Pocket Libraries Index
Link: contento.best.vwh.net/paper
Compiled by Steve Holland, the purpose of the site is to eventually
index all British children's papers, comics and annuals, although the
index that follows is very much a work in progress. It is a huge project,
with many tens of thousands of individual issues to be checklisted...
but Steve says all projects have to start somewhere!
• The Cartoon Art Trust (CAT)
Link: http://www.cartooncentre.com/
Dedicated to preserving and promoting the best of British cartoon art
and caricature and establishing a museum of cartoon art with gallery,
archives and reference library.
• Peter Gray's Cartoons and Comics
Link: petergraycartoonsandcomics.blogspot.com
Freelance cartoonist Peter Gray not only shows off his new cartoons but also
looks at British comics. More visual
than wordy.
• Yesterday's Papers Blog
Link: yesterdays-papers.blogspot.com
Blog by John Adcock about newspaper strips and cartoons, including British
strips
• Yesterday's Papers
Link: yesterdayspapers.150m.com
Page by page, this web site guides you through the fiction
that appeared in newspapers and magazines down the years, from the nineteenth
century onwards.
• If you're interested in British story papers such as Magnet, in addition to Steve Holland's brilliant Bear Alley blog, hunt down a copy of Old Boys Books: A Complete Catalogue published by Lofts & Adley in 1969. This is a most thorough listing of comics, story papers and annuals from the very earliest days of the 19th Century until publication in the late 1960's.
Fleetway Comics Reference Sites
Sites devoted to individual Fleetway characters feature
on this site, see links above
Egmont owns the rights to the following
Fleetway comics and characters:
Action: Roy of the Rovers,
Action, All Action
Monthly (reprint), Battle
Picture Weekly, Jet, Scorcher, Score 'n' Roar, Scream, Starlord, Tornado,
Hot Shot, Wildcat
Humour: Big Comic
Fortnightly, Buster (the
characters published in 1970 and intrioduced afterwards in that title,
see Andrew Sumner's interview),
Cheeky, Cor
, Jackpot
Knockout, Krazy, Monster
Fun, Nipper, Oink, School Fun, Whizzer & Chips, Whoopee,
Toxic*,
Wow
Girls: Daisy*, Go
Girl*, Jinty, Katy, Lindy, Misty, Penny, Pixie, Princess*,
Sally, Sandie, Tammy
Nursery: Bonnie,
Chips, Fun to Do, Fun to Know, Pixie, Playbox, Playgroup, Robin, Teddy
Bears Playtime
* Indicates still published
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| Gus Gorilla from the masthead of Cor!!, drawn by either by Mike Lacey or Jimmy Hansen, who designed the character and drew the first one or two Gus strips. |
Fleetway Street
Link: www.toonhound.com/fleetway.htm
A fascinating guide to those fun British
comics Whoopee!, Krazy,
Buster, Shiver & Shake, Cheeky, Cor!!, Whizzer & Chips, Monster
Fun, Knockout, Wow, Jackpot, and School
Fun. The site editor says
they'll all be here eventually, as part of a complete database of all
the strips from all the comics and annuals....
• The
Fleetway Companion by Steve Holland. CJ Publication.
This is an extensive index of the comics published by Fleetway. Titles
included amongst many others are BUSTER, HURRICANE, LION, ROY OF THE
ROVERS, TIGER, 2000 AD, VALIANT, etc. plus the Picture Libraries. All
titles are fully illustrated and give details of publication dates,
characters, stories, articles, strips, free gifts etc. This is a most
comprehensive guide and a must for any collector of any of the Fleetway
Titles. 385 pages. Soft Cover Black & White 6" x
8" (15cm x 20cm) Recommended.
• £30.00 ($54.00) from Book Palace: www.bookpalace.com/acatalog/Home_Guides_34.html
IPC
IPC Media owns many comics titles and characters published before 1970.
An agreement was brokered with Egmont Fleetway which establishes who owns
what, which IPC's Andrew Sumner explains in this interview on Comics World
News
Sites devoted to individual IPC characters feature on this site, see links above
Marvel
UK
Sites devoted to individual Marvel characters feature on this site, see
links above
• MightyWorld of Marvel UK
Link
: www.mightyworldofmarvel.co.uk
A
celebration of the British end of the House of Ideas.
• Marvel UK Yahoo group (you have to aply to join this)
• Marvel
UK on Wikipedia: General Feature
• Marvel
UK on Wikipedia: Titles
SuperBrits
Link: www.superbrits.co.uk
This site features detailed guides to many British heroes including Electroman,
Captain Miracle, Captain
Valiant, Dan
Dare, Jack Flash, Masterman, Marvelman, Space
Kingley and
others.
Specific
Comics Sites
Information welcome!
Jump to: Specific Comics Titles including: 2000AD • Action! • Action
Force • Battle • The
Beano • Buster • Commando
Picture Library • Countdown • Crisis • The
Dandy • Eagle • Girl • Hornet • Jackie
Chan Adventures • Jinty
• Visit this
page for links to website about
British Comics Titles from Lion to Wizard
• Visit this page for British
Comics Characters from ABC Warriors to Janus Stark
• Visit this page for British
Comic Characters from James Bond and Jeff Hawke to Modesty Blaise
• Visit this page for British
Comic Characters from the O-Men Wicked Wanda
2000AD
Official web site: www.2000adonline.com
Launched: 26 February 1997
Number of issues published: Ongoing - see
current titles list
Publisher: Rebellion
Mergers: Starlord, Tornado
Official site: www.2000ADonline.com
Britain's only surviving boy's adventure comic, still pumping out thrill
power every week.
The 2000AD Artwork Gallery
Link: www.2000ad.org/artwork
If you're interested in buying art from 2000AD check
out artdroids.co.uk,
run by Rufus Dayglo.
The
2000AD Links Project
Link: www.2000ad.nu/linksproject
You want 2000AD links, this site's got 'em!
Toothwatch
Link: www.toothwatch.co.uk
A guide to creator web sites -- where did they go from appearing in 2000AD?
Find out more here.
Zarjaz
Link: www.zarjaz.blogspot.com
The 2000AD fanzine, back in publication as of May 2005 after almost two years without an issue. Ace stuff.
2000AD Review
Link: www.2000adreview.co.uk
Excellent fan news site devoted to 2000AD and the Megazine.
Class of 79
Link: www.2000ad.nu/classof79
This online 2000AD fanzine includes creator interviews and strips
Action
Launched: 14
February 1976 - 12 November 1977
Number of issues published: 36 before ban; 50 post ban
Publisher: Now owned by Egmont-Fleetway, but
published by IPC
Mergers: Merged with Battle
Link: www.sevenpennynightmare.co.uk
This is a brilliant site devoted to the controversial
1970s comic first published by IPC, which featured strisp such as Hookjaw and
Kids Rule. Right wing moral outrage over the comic's content
lead to its suspension and subsequent much-diluted relaunch before the title
finally emerged with Battle. The brainchild of Pat Mills, the comic is largely
credited as being the direct forerunner of 2000AD.
• Spitfire Comics are to publish a Hookjaw collection
in 2006. Click here for
further information
Action Force
A brief overview of the Marvel
UK title: Go,
part of the Yo Joe! site
BATTLE: RECOMMENDED READING
• Charley's War Volume 1: 2 June - 1 August
1916
• Charley's War Volume 4: Blue's
Story • Charley's War Volume 5: Return
to the Front • Charley's War Volume 6: Return
to the Front |
Battle
Fan Site: Colonel
Marbles
Fan site devoted to the 1970s
British comic featuring characters such as Johnny Red, Darkie's
Mob, Major
Eazy other war-torn strips.
Official Titan Books Charley's War Site:
www.charleyswar.com
CharleysWar.com is an online catalogue of graphic novels, comics and
memorabilia.
Fan Site: Charley's
War
Neil Emery's site is the definitive
online site for this Battle strip created by Pat Mills
and drawn by the late Joe Colquhoun.
Charley's War, the tale of a young soldier in the First
World War, remains one of Britain's benchmark comic strips
and is the only Battle strip to have been re-published
as a graphic novel.
The
Beano
The Official Site: www.beano.co.uk
Paul
Morris' History Site
Link: www.paulmorris.co.uk/beano
Features a detailed guide
to the strips of the title, including art and writer credits
where known. Fascinating.
Martin Grayling's Beano Site
Link: www2.prestel.co.uk/grayling/beano/beano.html
This site also includes a chronology of the comic, including first appearances,
some nice images and a guide to prices for early issues, first published
in The Comic Book Guide, way back in 1996.
Fine and Dandy
Link: www.fineanddandy.co.uk
Tel:+44(0)1382 778989 Fax:+44(0)1382 778989
Fine and
Dandy stock one of the largest up to date selections of Beano and Dandy
memorabilia available in Scotland and further afield.
Merchandise includes Dennis The Menace T and Beano T shirts and recently
produced sets of Beano/Dandy fridge magnets, comic kits, Beano/Dandy
tea towels and other novelty items devoted to Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
-- not forgetting of course Dennis the Menace's many friends from the
Beano and Dandy Comic Books such as Desperate Dan, Minnie the Minx and
Beryl the
Peril.
The store
also has a fine selection of Scottish Gifts.
Buster
Buster fan website: www.bustercomic.co.uk
Matt Bowen's site is totally dedicated to Fleetway's first comic release
since it took over from Amalgamated Press, Buster. The comic ran for
40 years from 1960 to 2000 and the site details history of the World's
Greatest Comic and its many varied characters -- plus find out about
the comics that spun off and merged with Buster.
Commando Picture Library
War stories published in pocket editions by DC Thomson, which began in 1961. Still published today.• Disney
and Commando Comics
A strange mix but features
a potted history and some images -- not a lot here as
of 25/9/02.
• Read an interview with Commando editor Calum Laird
Countdown
A predominantly Gerry Anderson-series led comic, this
title also featured some beautifully drawn Doctor Who strips
by Gerry Haylock and later in the short-lived run, strips like The Persuaders.
It eventually merged with TV Action.
The comic strip rights to all material published in Countdown and TV
Action are
owned by London and North Surrey Newspapers, now part of the Trinity
Mirror Southern group.
• UFO Strips have been published
online at: http://shadolibrary.org/library/comics/
Crisis
A fortnightly comic with a political edge from the creators
of 2000AD.
Contributors included Pat Mills, Garth Ennis, John McCrea
and many more.
• Tom
Allen's tribute site
Link: www.fortunecity.com/tatooine/sputnik/53/crisis.htm
Dandy (now
Dandy Extreme)
The Official site: www.dandy.com
Desperate Dan still reigns supreme, complete with cow pies and super strength, but the comic has had a total makeover (see news story), featuring many new characters.
The
DFC
Official: www.thedfc.co.uk
Publishers of the subscription-only weekly comic
The DFC featuring strips by Philip Pullman, the Etherington Brothers,
James Turner and many more. As of 2009, on hiatus. Read
the downthetubes review of the first issue
First published in the 1950s, Eagle is perhaps best known for Dan Dare, bible stories such as Road of Courage and, of course, its fabulous cutaways. Contributors included Frank Hampson (co-founder of the title with the Reverend Marcus Morris), Frank Bellamy, Don Harley, Bruce Cornwell, David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe, Sir Max Clifford and many others. SF author Arthur C. Clarke was one of the title's early advisors.
Official: www.dandare.co.uk
The Dan Dare Corporation Limited owns the global media
rights to The Eagle comic and the comic strip "Dan Dare". The company also owns the rights to several other comic strips published in The Eagle, e.g. "Ghost Squad", "Computer Warrior", "Doomlord", "Manix", "Storm Force" and "Ultimate Warrior".
The book rights for Dan Dare are handled by Gordon Wise at Curtis
Brown Group Ltd and merchandising products by Copyrights Group Limited,
a Chorion company.
See our 2009 News Story: "Chorion
Secures Rights to Dan Dare"
The Eagle Society are
dedicated to the original Eagle comic. For more information
write to thier membership secretary at the address below:
Keith Howard,
25a Station Road,
Middlesex
England
HA1 2UA. The Society has a blog devoted to its magazine, The Eagle Times at:
eagle-times.blogspot.com
• Dan Dare.org: Eagle Section
Linkl: www.dandare.org/eaglesite.htm
All the Eagle pages
on this fab site are linked to this one. The section includes
guides to the Eagle artists and some of the
strips.There's also an
article by the Reverend Marcus Morris, founder
and first editor of Eagle,
describing how it come into being. This was the foreword to the book
Best of Eagle.
• The
Eagle Comic Archive
This is a cached version of a now defunct site dedicated
to Eagle.
Girl
Girl was the sister publication to Eagle and the 'older' sister publication
to Swift and Robin.
For a teenage girl growing up in 1950s' Britain, Girl was
essential reading.
Each week there'd be another gripping instalment of Susan
of St Brides: Nurse of the Year; advice column 'Mother Tells You
How' would provide wise words on how to care for goldfish; 'Concerning
You' would reveal how to choose spectacles that suit your face and the
Girl picture gallery of lovely paintings to cut out and keep would feature
pin-ups of the day such as Humphrey Littleton, Princess Margaret and various
garden birds.
Carlton Books is publishing The
Best of Girl in October 2006: described as a fascinating window
on this hilariously wholesome bygone age of fine upstanding virtue for
those too young to remember it, and a completely compulsive nostalgia trip
for those who aren't.
Hornet
Fan: www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk
Web site devoted to two of DC Thomson's classic boys titles, the other
being Victor. The site offers a brief history
of the both of the comics, and they're working on biographies of some
of the artists, writers and (and hopefully) editorial staff.
Jackie Chan: The Magazine
• www.jackie-chan-magazine.co.uk
As of September 2003, new magazine
based on the kung fu star including comic strip. Good
to see a magazine with comic strip being advertised on
prime time TV!
Jinty
• www.comixminx.net/Jinty_Come_Back.html
Jenni Scott's essay on the ace girls' comic of the 1970s. See also the
Jinty characters page on 26 Pigs: www.26pigs.com/jinty/characters.htm
(With thanks to "Slinky" and "King Viswa"): Knockout had
two runs, the first published by Amalgamated Press which ran for more
than 1200 issues between 1939 to 1963, eventually merging with Valiant.
Mostly adventure strips with some humour strips, it's perhaps best
known for featuring Billy Bunter, previously found in the story paper The
Magnet. There's
more about Billy Bunter and Knockout here on
the ace "Friardale" web site.
It also featured Reg Wootton's Strip Sporty, who
was was hugely popular in India as well as the UK and parts of Europe. More about
Reg and this strip on a Tamil
Comics blog - which also serves to illustrate how
well syndicated many British comic characters were at one time.
Knockout was revived as a title by IPC in 1971
but this time as a humour title with some adventure strips, running until 1973
when it mereged with with Whizzer and Chips. Knockout Annuals continued to be published into the 1980s.
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