Heroes weekly - London Editions, 1991

I've previously looked before at some DC reprint titles that appeared in the UK c/o London Editions...

DC action! here - published every 2 months in 1990, 6 issues in total

Zones here - published every 2 months in 1990, 4 issues in total

Shockwave here - 4 issues in 1991

But there was also Heroes - this was a weekly title that lasted just 8 issues back in 1991

Heroes, issue #1, 7th March 1991

Heroes, issue #2, 14th March 1991

Heroes, issue #3, 21st March 1991

Heroes, issue #4, 28th March 1991

Heroes, issue #5, 4th April 1991

Heroes, issue #6, 11th April 1991

Heroes, issue #7, 18th April 1991

Heroes, issue #8, 25th April 1991

images mainly c/o here

UPDATED: All the Bears

There's a story to be unpicked somewhere about all the following characters and, right now, I'm not sure how it all hangs together so I just need to start somewhere by working out all the instances of the character appearances that I've found so far.

The characters are Star Bears, Scare Bears and Were Bears...

UPDATE (01/05/26): Here's a 48 page long, full colour, A4 sized comic that I've never seen before...

and here's the back page...

So the comic contents are as follows...

1). front cover - 1 page

2). Scare Bears meet the St. John badgers - 2 pages, new material

3). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)

4). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #1)

5). Scare Bears - 12 pages

6). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprinted from Zodiac comic #2)

7). map of the events going on in Hyde Park that day - 2 pages

8). Star Bears - 4 pages, (reprint from Zodiac comic #3)

9). Scare Bears - 4 pages, (possible reprint from Zodiac comic #4)

10). Star Bears - 6 pages, (possible reprint from Zodiac comic #4)

11). Scare Bears - 3 pages, reprinted from Zodiac comic #2

12). advert - 1 page

13). rear cover - 1 page

UPDATED: I've found an image of the Scare Bears stickers (25 in a pack for 24p!) so I've added that in below...

1). Star Bears 

Created by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas

Here and here I looked at Z comic...

...which has 4 pages of Star Bears content...

...and then there was the sticker book (here)

And in this book there's a 6 page strip...

Here's an example page...

2). Scare Bears 

Illustrated by Craig Dixon and Matt Gibas

Illustrated by George Nicholas

This featured in the sticker book (here)

Here and here I looked at Z comic...

which featured a 4 page Scare Bears strip

there was also the Scare Bears monster party book that I looked at here

The Scare Bear also feature on the cover of 'Cartoon Aid' which I looked at here

and this has two newspaper style strips

plus this full-colour 12-page strip (illustrated by George Nicholas - my list of his work here)

3). Were Bears 

another comic from George Nicholas - which I looked at in more detail here - a title from 1990/1. So I'm assuming that the Scare Bears evolved into Were bears

UPDATED: The best of Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, 1990-91

I've looked at a variety of The Real Ghostbusters comics from Marvel UK before... 

Puzzlebuster is here

Collected comics is here

...and now we have the 5 issues run of The best of Real Ghostbusters

Seems like a tough run to collect, any help with missing images would be much appreciated.

Now updated with the covers for issue 3 & 5 (c/o friend of the blog Richard Gilham). These are all hard to get hold of.

The best of Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #1, November 1990

image c/o Michael Carroll

The best of Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #2, December 1990

image from here

The best of Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #3, January 1991

The best of Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #4, February 1991

image from here

The best of Real Ghostbusters, Marvel UK, issue #5, March 1991

UPDATED: Asterix calendars

A well overdue update to my guide to collecting Asterix calendars - hope you managed to get one of these to hang on your wall, I didn't!

now updated with calendars for 2026 - highlighted thus

Asterix calendar 2026

Asterix calendar 2025

Asterix calendar 2024

Asterix calendar 2023

A chance find at a bookshop in December 2019 has meant that, happily, an Asterix calendar has been hanging on my wall this year. 

2022 appears looks set to be a bumper year for Asterix calendars with these two calendars currently available on Amazon...

Working out a gift list for last Christmas inspired me to see if a calendar has been produced for...and, good news, it has been...and it's been on my wall all year

 

the calendar previously on my wall...

...I then started wondering if there had been calendars for other years...so far I've found just this one

A quick bit of googling brings up plenty of 'kalendars' for the German market but few others - or maybe they've just dropped the word 'kalendar' from the title (so that it can be sold more widely).

Anyway if you know of any other Asterix calendars do let me know - thanks.

Asterix calendar 1991

Asterix calendar 1996

If you're interested in comic calendars then you can check out my previous posts on the subject...

1). Beano & Dandy calendars are here
2). Commando calendars are here
3). Judge Dredd calendars are here
4). Broons calendars are here, here and here
5). Oor Wullie is here
6). Dan Dare calendar is here
7). Miscellaneous calendars are here

8). Viz calendars are here

UPDATED: Fantastic Max - 1990 - Marvel & Redan

This was a comic I hadn't come across before until very recently. I like the look of the covers more than the interior work but there you go. The copyright notice state that this is published by Marvel Comics Ltd in association with The Redan company and that's about all I know about it.

At least 13 issues, if you know any more do let me know, thanks!

UPDATE: now with a cover for issue #3 included

Fantastic Max, issue 1, 13th October 1990, 50p

Fantastic Max, issue 2, 27th October 1990, 50p

image not to hand - can you help?

Fantastic Max, issue 3, 10th November 1990, 50p

image from this ebay sale

Fantastic Max, issue 4, 24th November 1990, 50p

image not to hand - can you help?

Fantastic Max, issue 5, 8th December 1990, 50p

image not to hand - can you help?

Fantastic Max, issue 6, 22nd December 1990, 50p

...and then at some point it becomes a month title (rather than fortnightly) and the price goes up to 75p (from 55p)

There was also a Spring Special - the advert is taken from a 1992 Superted Spring Special - and says out now so I think we can safely assume this was published.