If you’re a fan of Reg Parlett – an artist who drew strips for plenty of British humour weeklies such as Buster, Whoopee!, Whizzer and Chips and many more – you may fancy bidding on not one but two pages of “Billy Bunter” attributed to him, offered across two Catawiki auctions this week.
On offer is a complete “Billy Bunter” take from the pages of Valiant cover dated 20th December 1969, in which Billy gets his inevitable comeuppance when he tries out for a singing career.
Bizarrely, Page Two of the story is an item a Comic Artworks Auction ending later today; while bidding on the opening page ends in a separate auction, both run by the same curator, later this week.
The auction ending today also includes examples of “Axa” and “Modesty Blaise” newspaper strips drawn by Enrique Badia Romero.
We’re not quite sure of the logic to the out of order Bunter sale, but you may just want to check the pages out, as the opening price on both is pretty low and the seller ships to the UK – which some Catawiki sellers don’t, because of post Brexit shipping costs.
Billy Bunter’s adventures appeared as “Billie Turf” in Belgium, which is why the original art appears to have ended up there.
• Comic Artworks Auction No. 1200803 – Full Catalogue (including Billy Bunter Page One)
• Comic Artworks Auction No. 1200814 – Full Catalogue (including Billy Bunter Page Two) – ends today
• Facebook: Peter Gray’s Reg Parlett Comic Art Fansite
• Lambiek: Reg Parlett Profile
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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