UPDATED - Captain Planet and the planeteers

Update (23/03/26) - I've completed the cover gallery via the addition of the cover for issue #3

I've now acquired some copies of Captain Planet so in red I've added details of writers, artists etc

Prompted by a question on a facebook group together I've been inspired to look into the 'Captain Planet and the planeteers' comic...I don't have any copies myself so I've scoured t'internet for the images below...Marvel US put out a 12-issue series but for Marvel UK I've only got up to issue 4 so far - were there more? Let me know! 

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 1, cover dated 12th October 1991

cover by Mario Capaldi and John Burns

The single story is called 'A hero for Earth' and is labelled as 'Stan Lee presents' so this sounds like a US reprint to me

Writers = Barry Dutter & Jim Salicrup

Pencils = José Delbo

Inker = Mike DeCarlo

Letterer = Jim Massara

Colour = Brad Vancata 

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 2, cover dated 26th October 1991

Mario Capaldi on cover art duties

Story 1 = A hero for Earth - no credits but assume it's as per issue 1 (above) 

Story 2 = Toxic Terror!; story by Ian Rimmer, art by Mario Capaldi, lettering by Cie, colouring by Louise Cassell

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 3, cover dated 9th November 1991

currently for sale here on ebay

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, issue 4, cover dated 23rd November 1991

Mario Capaldi and John Burns on cover art duties

Story 1 = 'Smog gets in your eyes' [continued from issue 3], script by Barry Dutter and Jim Salicrup; art by Jose Delbo & Stephen Baskerville; lettering by Jim Massara; colouring by Sarra Mossoff.

Story 2 = 'Carbon copy' [continued from issue 3], script by Ian Rimmer; art by Mario Capaldi and Bambos Georgiou; lettering by Cie; colouring by Helen Nally

Captain Planet and the planeteers, Marvel UK, holiday special

Hmmm, where did they get that idea for a cover from?

Published August 1992

The contents are a single story 'If you can't nuke em...join 'em'...script by Barry Dutter; pencils by Pat Broderick; inks by Bruce Patterson & Ralp Cabrera; letters by John Costanza; colours by Sarra Mossoff; story editor Rob Takar

And Tim Perkins worked on the annual (and he also worked on a colouring book and the colouring & activity book)

I posted the above in a Facebook group and John Michael Burns (renowned colourist and nephew of artist John M Burns) was kind enought to make a comment on the post...

UPDATED: Clearmark comics - Tom & Jerry

I've looked at some comics published by 'Clearmark comics' in the past...

Popular fairy tales here

Were Bears here

The world of Wym here

Rupert here

Tom and Jerry here 

Cookie here

Henry's cat - fun to cook here

They published at least one other title though...Tom & Jerry comic. Michael Carrol (here) records it at lasting 7 issues. So, here's the start of a covers gallery for Tom & Jerry comic.

Now updated with the cover of issue #7

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 1, May 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 2, June 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 3, July 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 4, August 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 5, September 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 6 October 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 7, November 1990, 80p

Denis Gifford's ACE newsletter for Jan/Feb 1991 (#120) records this as the final issue

UPDATED: Clearmark comics - Tom & Jerry

I've looked at some comics published by 'Clearmark comics' in the past...

Popular fairy tales here

Were Bears here

The world of Wym here

Rupert here

Tom and Jerry here 

Cookie here

Henry's cat - fun to cook here

They published at least one other title though...Tom & Jerry comic. Michael Carrol (here) records it at lasting 7 issues. So, here's the start of a covers gallery for Tom & Jerry comic.

Now updated with the cover of issue #2 and #3

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 1, May 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 2, June 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 3, July 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 4, August 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 5, September 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 6 October 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 7, November 1990, 80p

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UPDATED: Clearmark comics - Tom & Jerry

I've looked at some comics published by 'Clearmark comics' in the past...

Popular fairy tales here

Were Bears here

The world of Wym here

Rupert here

Tom and Jerry here 

Cookie here

Henry's cat - fun to cook here

They published at least one other title though...Tom & Jerry comic. Michael Carrol (here) records it at lasting 7 issues. So, here's the start of a covers gallery for Tom & Jerry comic.

Now updated with the cover of issue #5

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 1, May 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 2, June 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 3, July 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 4, August 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 5, September 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 6 October 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 7, November 1990, 80p

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UPDATED: The real Ghostbusters - collected comics

I'm not a collector of Marvel UK's 'The Real Ghostbusters' comic but I've seen that the collected editions seem to be quite expensive so I thought I'd see if I could identify how many there are.

Ideally I'd love to be able to tell you what stories they reprinted (and from which issues) and which issue of the comic the cover has come from but, sadly, I can't. 

Instead if you can help me fill the gaps in the covers gallery below (#8 and #10) and confirm if the series went beyond #11 that would be very helpful!

Enjoy!  

UPDATE: I've now identified that there was an issue 13 - so I've added that to the gallery.

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 1

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 2

from 1989

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 3

from July 1990

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 4

1991 Summer special

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 5

from February 1992

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 6

from May 1992; the cover had been originally used on issue #90

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 7

from December 1992

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 8
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The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 9

Holiday special 1993

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 10

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The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 11

produced in 1994

The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 12

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The real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK - collected comics number 13

image c/o here

and there was this too

There was also a Winter special - no image of that to hand

UPDATED: Clearmark comics - Tom & Jerry

I've looked at some comics published by 'Clearmark comics' in the past...

Popular fairy tales here

Were Bears here

The world of Wym here

Rupert is here

They published at least one other title though...Tom & Jerry comic. Michael Carrol (here) records it at lasting 7 issues. So, here's the start of a covers gallery for Tom & Jerry comic.

Now updated with the cover of issue #4

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 1, May 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 2, June 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 3, July 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 4, August 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 5, September 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 6 October 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 7, November 1990, 80p

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Clearmark comics - Tom & Jerry

I've looked at some comics published by 'Clearmark comics' in the past...

Popular fairy tales here

Were Bears here

The world of Wym here

They published at least one other title though...Tom & Jerry comic. Michael Carrol (here) records it at lasting 7 issues. So, here's the start of a covers gallery for Tom & Jerry comic.

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 1, May 1990, 80p

Tom & Jerry comic, issue 2, June 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 3, July 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 4, August 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 5, September 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 6 October 1990, 80p

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Tom & Jerry comic, issue 7, November 1990, 80p

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UPDATED: Power Rangers - the official magazine (1996)

I've looked before (here) at Power Rangers comics from 1995 - there have been a lot of Power Rangers comics over the years so it's important to be able to tell them all apart. 

There was a Marvel UK comic [not yet covered on the blog] that ran from 1st March 1995 to 1st March 1996 (13 issues) and that title seems to have been followed by this title - "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine". There is comics content but it's limited. These are slim magazines, only 28 pages in total (including covers) but they do all feature a 5 page comic strip at the start of each issue. I'm reliably informed that there were 8 issues in total.

The credits on page 2 of issue one list Helen Nally as art director, Glenn Dakin as editor, Gary Ninja Gilbert as designer and Mark Irvine / Andy Parslow as 'production'.

By issue 4 Jason Quinn is project leader

Here's what I've found so far...the covers for issues 2 & 3 are new for this update

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #1, 10th May 1996

story - "Victims of Vegetabully", story & art by Paul Kirchner, inks by Ralph Reese 

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #2, 24th May 1996

no details of the writer / artists credits to hand

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #3, 7th June 1996

no details of the writer / artists credits to hand

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #4, 21st June 1996

story is untitled - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor 'Rita' Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #5, 5th July 1996

story is "The return of Sabrina!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor Glenn Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #6, 19th July 1996

story is "The ice cream caper!" - story by Ian Carney, art by Brian Williamson, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and editor "Chunky" Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #7, 2nd August 1996

story is "Duelling duet!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Dumpster" Dakin

David Leach provides some spot illustrations on other pages

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #8, 16th August 1996

story is "Bee-ware" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Trumpetop" Dakin

Some feedback from the actual editor after my previous post about these...