Comic flyers & adverts

Just a shout-out for ace ebay seller philcomics - a finder of ace comics stuff, well worth a follow. Here's a few examples of some of the adverts / flyers that they had up for sale recently. If this is the sort of stuff you love then keep an eye on their ebay site for upcoming auctions.

2 day comic auction - Sep22

This auctions starts today - don't forget - good luck if you're bidding on any items!

Anderson & Garland have announced a 2 day comics auction on Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th September. The catalogue is now available to view all the lots right here. There are over 1,000 lots to look at, and many, many highlights. British comics are well represented and there are some fine US lots as well.

I've picked out just a few of the British comics highlights...

Lot 321 here is a run of TV21 comics from issue 1-100 - these look to be in great condition

Lot 322 here has a great run of Ranger comic, issues 1-40

Lots 323-347 are a run of lots focusing on issue 1's. 

Lot 329 (here) has an issue of (Junior) Quizzer amongst it. Check out all my posts on this elusive comic here

Lot 336 (here) has an issue of Bea amongst it. Check out all my posts on this elusive comic here

Lot 754 (here)  has issues 2, 3, 4 & 5 of Viz

Lot 757 (here) is a Dave McKean lot

Lot 760 (here)  is 2000AD #2

Lot 761 (here) is "Burger Wars" episodes of 2000AD

Lot 769 (here) is issues 1&2 of 2000AD

Lots 798-814 are all the original art for various picture libraries. Art is by people like Oliver Frey, Jordi Penalva, Allesandro Biffignandi, Giorgio de Gaspari, Vincente Alcazar, Graham Coton and others. Some examples are shown below...

2 day comic auction - Sep22

Anderson & Garland have announced a 2 day comics auction on Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th September. The catalogue is now available to view all the lots right here. There are over 1,000 lots to look at, and many, many highlights. British comics are well represented and there are some fine US lots as well.

I've picked out just a few of the British comics highlights...

Lot 321 here is a run of TV21 comics from issue 1-100 - these look to be in great condition

Lot 322 here has a great run of Ranger comic, issues 1-40

Lots 323-347 are a run of lots focusing on issue 1's. 

Lot 329 (here) has an issue of (Junior) Quizzer amongst it. Check out all my posts on this elusive comic here

Lot 336 (here) has an issue of Bea amongst it. Check out all my posts on this elusive comic here

Lot 754 (here)  has issues 2, 3, 4 & 5 of Viz

Lot 757 (here) is a Dave McKean lot

Lot 760 (here)  is 2000AD #2

Lot 761 (here) is "Burger Wars" episodes of 2000AD

Lot 769 (here) is issues 1&2 of 2000AD

Lots 798-814 are all the original art for various picture libraries. Art is by people like Oliver Frey, Jordi Penalva, Allesandro Biffignandi, Giorgio de Gaspari, Vincente Alcazar, Graham Coton and others. Some examples are shown below...

Catawiki auction this week

The Catawiki auction this week has an interesting selection of items by British comic artists...

This lot here is Mike Hubbard drawing 'Allan Quatermain' for Ranger

This lot here is Reg Parlett drawing 'Billy Bunter' 

This lot here is from Treasure and is by Clive Upton

This lot here is by Bill Lacey and is from Look and Learn - a page from 'Eagles over the Western front'

This lot here is by Edward Kearnon and is a 'Robot Archie' page from Lion

This page here is a Joe Colquhoun 'Paddy Payne' page from Lion

This page here is by Romero and is a Modesty Blaise strip

This page here is by Ron Embleton

Asterix and other bande desineé reprints in British comics

If you enjoyed my chat with Tony Esmond on episode #23 of the Never Iron Anything podcast here are my notes for the show - hopefully there'll be something here to pique your interest...check out the show link here...

https://neverironanything.podbean.com/e/episode-23-asterix-and-the-big-fight-with-richard-sheaf/

Ranger

40 pages

Lots of colour

Thick paper

All 12 new strips written by Mike Butterworth

Art by Mike Hubbard, J Millar Watt, Geoff Campion, Jesus Blasco, Arturo Del Castillo

David Roach says “...it was a large, unwieldy, somewhat unfocussed comic which felt uncomfortably old fashioned at the dawn of the swinging ‘60s”

18^th September 1965 – 18^th June 1966 = 40 issues

In all 40 issues

“Britons never, never, never shall be slaves”

44 pages in ‘Asterix and the big fight’ – so slightly abridged

Ranger book 1967 = 1 x page (page 34 of Asterix & the big fight)

·         This page was missed out completely in Ranger [44 pages to squeeze into 40 issues]

·         April 16 1966 is the page before; April 23 1966 is the page after!

The strip is set in Britain not in France. Just says that some of the Britains adapt to the Roman way of life and some resist; no sense that this is the last village holding out against the occupation.

Not translated by Anthea Bell & Derek Hockridge

Vitalstatistix = Caradoc

Asterix = Beric the bold

Dogmatix = Fido

Obelix = son of Boadicea

Getafix = Doric

(Local village) Linoleum = Chipping Wallop

Cassius Ceramix = Barewolf

Psychoanalytix the druid = Dr Dottidoc

Lots more words in the Ranger version

Other early BD strips in British comics

Tintin in Eagle in 1951 – albums (in English) started to appear in colour from 1958 onwards

Alix – 2 volumes in 1971

Ompa-pa – published in English in 1977/78

·         Reprints in The first instance of Fleetway reprinting a European strip that I can find, using Steve Holland and Dave Ashford’s Collector’s Guides as reference, is in The Sun (which was a comic back then rather than a newspaper), which in November 1950 ran “The Jester’s Revenge“. Unfortunately there are no credits for this strip or for “Hal Hotspur” which appeared in February 1951 and was also a European strip.

·         Both stories have medieval themes and were cut and paste jobs often appearing in the centre pages and on the back cover with distinctive flat colouring of the time. The Sun and its companion comic The Comet would often turn the black line to blue and then colour the strips, creating a rather odd effect. Other pages would be two colour while the balance was printed in black and white.

·         “The Phantom Knight” reprinted in The Comet from February 1955 followed the pattern set by The Sun. This medieval strip had three pages all in the distinctive colours just described. Researchers will have to rely on stumbling across the source material of these strips to assign creative credits and original titles, or it may be revealed that they are actually original works by obscure un-named artists.

·         “Skippy the Kangaroo” is credited to a team of creators – Danet, Dubrisay and Genéstre and as an “André Sarrut Production”. The three named creators – artist L. Danet and animators G. Dubrisay and Roland Genéstre – all worked on Sarrut’s troubled animated film,  The Shepherdess and Chimney Sweeper (La Bergere et le Ramoneur) between 1948 and 1950, a production which was never officially released.

·         “The  adventures of Boy Colin” appeared in The Sun in October 1954

o   Ran for a whole year

o   Therefore first 2 albums were reprinted

o   Belgian creators J Van Melkebeke & Paul Covelier

·         Super Detective Library #42 (1954)

o   Most contents of SDL were reprints

o   Often used American / British newspaper strips

·         Knockout April 1960 – Jerry Spring by Jije becomes “He’s Slade”

·         Knockout May 1960 – Anna of the jungle by Hugo Pratt became ‘Jungle Drums’

·         Valiant issue 1 (6^th Oct 1962) – Paladin the fearless by Jean-Michel Charlier & Albert Uderzo, a reprint of Bulldog from Pilote [Charlier writes Blueberry, Young Blueberry & Buck Danny]

·         Valiant 16 Nov 63 – 18 Jan 64 = Little Fred and Big Ed = 10 weeks

·         Valiant 25 Jan 64 – 4 Apr 64 = Little Fred                        = 11 weeks

o   = Asterix the Gaul = 1^st book (garish colours, characters not finalised)

o   Asterix = Little Fred, the ancient Brit with bags of grit

o   Obelix = Big Ed

o   Getafix = Hocus Pocus

o    An edited-down version of Asterix the Gaul appeared in Valiant, a boys' comic published by Fleetway Publications, beginning in the issue dated 16 November 1963. It appeared in colour on the back page. Set in the Britain of 43AD, the strip was originally called Little Fred and Big Ed. Little Fred and stonemason Big Ed lived in the village of Nevergivup which was surrounded by eight Roman camps: Harmonium, Cranium, Pandemonium, Premium, Rostrum, Aquarium, Maximum and Laudanum. Their druid was called Hokus Pokus. As the story progresses and Obelix is absent from the action, the strip was renamed Little Fred, the Ancient Brit with Bags of Grit.

o    They got through the whole story in one page per week. As an example of how they edited it, here's a comparison of the last two pages of the original and how they appeared in Valiant:

(with thanks to Robbie Moubert for the above)

·         Look & Learn reprinted ‘Asterix & Cleopatra’ as ‘In the days of good queen Cleo’

o   25 June 1966 – 22 April 1967 = 44 weeks; so no abridging of the strip

o   Obelix becomes Doric (which was Getafix’s name in the Ranger adaptation)

·         Lion reprinted ‘Lucky Luke’ (art by Morris; script by Goscinny) as Boy Kidd, 11/06/66-16/07/66 [the strip having previously appeared in the full run of Champion - 26/02/66-04/06/66]

·         Lion also reprinted (as Jinks) ‘Modeste et Pompon’ from Le journal de Tintin (Belgium) – art by Andre Franquin; this had appeared previously in Knockout under the title ‘Dickie and Birdbath watch the woggle’ (1960)

Trigan Empire reprints from the Treasury of British comics

To mark the recent publication of the first volume of Rebellion's reprints of 'The Trigan Empire' I just wanted to capture (for future reference) all the versions that are available..

The rise and fall of the Trigan Empire (volume 1) paperback edition £19.99, 13 digit ISBN = 978-1-78108-755-8

The rise and fall of the Trigan Empire (volume 1) hardback edition £35.00, 13 digit ISBN = 978-1-78108-851-7 - comic book retailer exclusive

The rise and fall of the Trigan Empire (volume 1) hardback edition £35.00, 13 digit ISBN = 978-1-78108-755-8 - Rebellion webshop exclusive limited edition of 340 copies 

Stories are as follows:
a). Victory for the Trigans, originally published in Ranger 18/09/65-29/01/66
b). Crash in the jungle, originally published in Ranger, 05/02/66-19/02/66
c). The falling moon, Ranger, 26/02/66-28/05/66
d). The invaders from Gallas, Ranger, 04/06//66-18/06/66 and then Look and Learn incorporating Ranger, 232-237 25/06/66-30/07/66
e). The land of no return, Look and Learn, 238-242 (06/08/66-03/09/66)
f). The revolt of the Lokans, Look and Learn, 243-255 (10/09/66-03/12/66)
g). War with Hericon, Look and Learn, 256-264 (10/12/66-04/02/67)
h). Revolution in Zabriz, Look and Learn, 265-273 (11/02/67-08/04/67)  
i). The Lokan invasion, Look and Learn, 274-279 (15/04/67-20/05/67)  
j). The revenge of Darak, Look and Learn, 280-290 (27/05/67-05/08/67)  
k). The alien invasion, Look and Learn, 291-297 (13/08/67-23/09/67)  
l). The reign of Thara, Look and Learn, 298-316 (30/09/67-03/02/68)
m). The invasion of Bolus, Look and Learn, 317-331 (10/02/68-17/05/68)
So that's the first 13 stories

The rise and fall of the Trigan Empire (volume 2), 13 digit ISBN = 978-1-78108-755-6

Stories previously published are as follows:

The Look and Learn book of the Trigan empire, Fleetway, 1973

Stories are as follows:

a). Victory for the Trigans, originally published in Ranger 18/09/65-29/01/66

b). Crash in the jungle, originally published in Ranger, 05/02/66-19/02/66

c). The falling moon, Ranger, 26/02/66-28/05/66

So that's stories 1-3

The Trigan empire, Hamlyn, 1978

I). Victory for the Trigans, originally published in Ranger, 18/09/65-29/01/66
II). Elekton in danger, actually Crash in the jungle, originally published in Ranger, 05/02/66-19/02/66 and The falling moon, Ranger, 26/02/66-28/05/66
III). The legend of Hellas, actually The land of no return, Look and Learn, 238-242 (06/08/66-03/09/66)
IV). Truce with Hericon, actually War with Hericon, Look and Learn, 256-264 (10/12/66-04/02/67)
V). Revolution in Zabriz, Look and Learn, 265-273 (11/02/67-08/04/67)   
VI). Battle for Trigan city, actually The reign of Thara, Look and Learn, 298-316 (30/09/67-03/02/68)
VII). The invasion of Bolus, Look and Learn, 317-331 (10/02/68-17/05/68)
So that's stories 1-3, 5, 7, 8, 12 and 13

Tales from the Trigan empire, Hawk Books, 1989

i). A tale of treachery - actually The revenge of Darak, Look and Learn, 280-290 (27/05/67-05/08/67)  
ii). A tale of invasion - actually The alien invasion, Look and Learn, 291-297 (13/08/67-23/09/67)  
iii). A tale of treason - actually The reign of Thara, Look and Learn, 298-316 (30/09/67-03/02/68)
iv). A tale of evil - actually The invasion of Bolus, Look and Learn, 317-331 (10/02/68-17/05/68)
v). A tale of sons and heirs, 
vi). A tale of a perilous journey, 
vii). A tale of an infernal machine. 
So that's stories 10, 11, 12, 13 & 3 stories yet to be identified

There were also reprints in Vulcan (2nd series, 27/09/75-03/04/76 and then 3 'mini-mags' in the following 3 issues of Valiant and Vulcan, so to 24/04/76) - these started with The invasion of Bolus, Look and Learn, 317-331 (10/02/68-17/05/68) - so that's story 13; further reprints followed which I'll (hopefully) be able to identify better once volume 2 of this series comes out.

a). Vulcan 27/09/75-18/10/75 = The invasion of Bolus, Look and Learn, 317-331 (10/02/68-17/05/68) - so that's story 13
b). Vulcan 18/10/75-