Heritage auctions - London, part 1

Here's a few images from the recent event (11th Feb 2026) at the Heritage Auctions gallery in central London. Event seemed to go well - they've promised to organise more! 

Art is up for auction at either auction 7461 (here) or 7462 (here) at the end of Feb/start of March. Good luck if you bid!

Judge Dredd megazine cover by Dean Ormston

John Byrne Superman / Joker cover

Lee Elias cover art for 'Chamber of Chills'

John Bolton 

Total Carnage (1993-4)

I've looked at a few Dark Horse International titles over the years...

Jurassic Park here

Star Wars featuring Indiana Jones here

Max Overload! #1 here

Max Overload! #2 here

Alien 3 movie special here

...and today it's the turn of the short-run title Total Carnage - 10 issues from 1993-4

Total Carnage, issue 1, April 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 2, May 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 3, June 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 4, July 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 5, August 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 6, September 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 7, October 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 8, November 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 9, December 1993, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Total Carnage, issue 10, January 1994, Dark Horse International, £1.50

Lawless 2024 - the photos, part 4

Hard to believe it's another 8 months to Lawless, boo! While we're waiting for the time to pass here's part 4 of my photos from Lawless 2024. 

Part 1 (the artists) was here

Part 2 - 2000AD art was here

Part 3 - more 2000AD art was here

and now some vintage British comic art...

Quite a few war picture library covers...

John M Burns & Mike Noble (left hand side, middle panel)

Ron Embleton art

Ian Kennedy art for new Eagle (top); John Bolton for Warrior (bottom)

top - Ron Embleton

bottom - Brian Lewis art for Captain Condor (in Lion)

Maxwell the magic cat, volume 3

The four slim reprint volumes (published by Acme press) of Alan Moore's Maxwell the magic cat newspaper strips are surely high on the wants list of any Moore aficionado. Volumes 1 and 2 seem a little easier to get hold of than volumes 3 and 4 but I've long been more interested in volumes 3&4 as I knew they had Maxwell work by other artists in.

Below we have the artistic highlights of volume 3 - the original art of these images (along with those in volume 4) were all auctioned off at UKCAC87 for charity.

Art by Bryan Talbot

Art by Garry Leach

Art by John Bolton

Art by Graham Higgins (top) and Dave Gibbons (bottom)

Art by Ian Gibson

this fast-driving truck driver is clearing dead cats off the front of his cab - nice!

UPDATED: Jurassic Park - Dark Horse International, 1993/4

Inspired by a recent post (here) by friend of the blog Michael Carroll I decided to create a covers gallery for the 1993/4 Dark Horse International Jurassic Park comic. I've found the first 8 issues, just another 8 to go! Images are mostly taken from ebay, but some are from the Grand Comics Database and some from Phil Boyce's excellent look at this comic - read all about it here.

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 1, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 2, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 3, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 4, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 5, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 6, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 7, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 8, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 9, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 10, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 11, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 12, 95p

Jurassic Park, Dark Horse International, 1993/4, issue 13, 95p, cover by John Bolton

Jurassic Park, Manga publishing, 1993/4, issue 14, £1.25p

Jurassic Park, Manga publishing, 1993/4, issue 15, £1.25p

Jurassic Park, Manga publishing, 1993/4, issue 16, £1.25p

You can see all other Manga published titles here

Short Fuse - Cliff Robinson & Glenn Fabry

Some day I'll look in more detail at Short Fuse comic fanzine - I just need to get hold of some issues of it first! The problem being that they always seem to go for high prices whenever I (rarely) see them listed on eBay. Hey-ho. 

Instead, here's are some Short Fuse images from something I do actually own, yes it's ArkenSword #19. As it says on page 3 "...the last issue of Short Fuse is not be published, so some of that material has been transferred to these pages"). So here are the 2 'bomb' images plus an Alan Davis/Paul Neary piece...

Cliff Robinson draws Judge Dredd and a short fuse

The cover to Arken Sword issue #19

Here's Glenn Fabry's Sláine and a short fuse...plus John Bolton's Wolverine

and here's that Alan Davis / Paul Neary piece I mentioned earlier...

It's all lies - 1973

My interest in this 1973 comic stems from an entry in the Mick McMahon stripography (compiled by Patrick Brown) in The Panelhoue issue #4 (March-July 1996) which has as its first entry...

1976 (or earlier?)

Jeff Gint, private detective in 'It's all lies' 

The British Library records 6 issues of the comic 'It's all lies' from 1973. This is the same as is recorded in 'Nasty tales' by David Huxley. So, I'm going to go for that too.

It's all lies, issue #1, 1973

It's all lies, issue #2, 1973

rear cover

It's all lies, issue #3, 1973

It's all lies, issue #4, 1973

It's all lies, issue #5, 1973 - cover art by John Hurford

It's all lies, issue #6, 1973 - cover at by John Bolton

Thanks to Victor Marsillo (check out his great Facebook group "British Underground Comix") I have a contents listing for It's all lies

It's All Lies #1: Matthew Freeth, Jonathan Gems, Antonio Ghura, John Hurford, Justin Ward 

#2: Matthew Freeth, Jonathan Gems, John Hurford, Justin Ward 

#3: Matthew Freeth, Antonio Ghura, John Hurford, Alan Moore (script), Steve Parkhouse, Justin Ward 

#4: Matthew Freeth, Heath, John Hurford, McMahon, Justin Ward #5: Matthew Freeth, Jonathan Gems, Antonio Ghura, John Hurford, McMahon, Justin Ward 

#6: John Bolton, Robert Crumb, Matthew Freeth, Antonio Ghura, Steve Parkhouse, Justin Ward

Interesting to see Steve Parkhouse's name in there - but that's for another day. And Alan Moore as well.

Anyway, it's clear from the listing that "McMahon" is credited as appearing in issues 4 and 5. It doesn't say "Mick McMahon" in the issues just "McMahon".

Victor then sent me this more detailed description of the "McMahon" credited strips...

so, in #4, there's a 6-page strip entitled: Geoffrey Gimp - Special Agent in Nothing for Something. And in #5, there's a 4-page strip entitled: Geoffrey Gimp - Special Agent: Hell-Hound.

Ok, so that's not quite "Jeff Gint" but I can easily see how the names could have been confused.

Victor then sent me these interior pages from It's all lies - in the first image you can see a signature on the bin lid. Even if thse were drawn in 1973 that's still 4 years before 2000AD is published so that gives someone's art style a long time to develop. So, the question is, does these look like really early Mick McMahon artwork to you?

At the Mick McMahon signing at Forbidden Planet yesterday (Saturday 10th December 2022) Eamonn Clarke asked Mick about the strip and whether or not he'd drawn it. Mick confirmed that he HAD drawn it and he was happy to see the strip again - even though he thought the strip was completely terrible!