Derring-do in outer space and across space-time – classic British SF comics, collected
Geoff Campion
Comic Spotlight: “Turville’s Touchstone”, aka “The Spellbinder”, from Lion
Check out this clever “Spellbinder” artwork offering a complete story in just one illustration…
Compalcomics offers TV Century 21 “Stingray”, Battle “Charley’s War” art and more in February auction
A slew of great British comic art on offer!
In Review: Bear Alley Books “Longbow” classic British comics collections
Offering intense, fast-paced action adventure, “Longbow of the Cheyenne” is surely classic British weekly comics at its best…
Creating Comics: An Archive Interview with Roy of the Rovers co-creator Frank S. Pepper
The Continuing Adventures of Frank S. Pepper This feature offers the full text of an interview Andrew Darlington conducted with the legendary writer Frank S. Pepper, extracted from a long series of correspondence, exactly as it was published in the… Read More ›
Lost British Comic Projects: SCOOPS, a Newspaper Comic
David Slinn recalls a little-known and short-lived British newspaper project, SCOOPS, which featured strips by the likes of Sandy Clarke, Ron Smith and Brian Walker…
Looking back at Battle Action Force
Many older British comic fans will remember Marvel UK’s Action Force comic, but the team had another home – in issues of IPC’s Battle in the early 1980s. Luke Williams looks back at the stories… By the early 1980s, sales… Read More ›
Step aside WWE, here’s Johnny (Cougar, that is)! But could this comics hero make a comeback today?
Long before WWE in its present form and ITV’s Gladiators there was a wrestling star that outfought all his opponents – Johnny Cougar, a Canadian Seminole mat fighter, co-star of the long-running weekly comic Tiger alongside the likes of “Roy of… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Nine
Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a Creative Visionary… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive biography of the man which continues here on downthetubes, is only due to him having… Read More ›
Missing In Action: Marvel UK’s “Zip” anthology
Marvel UK published a huge number of anthology titles down the years, starting with Mighty World of Marvel in the early 1970s through to Overkill in the 1990s – but one that got away in the company’s final years was Zip,… Read More ›