British comics galore and Frankie Stein art, too – in this month’s Phil Comics online auction

By John Freeman on March 12, 2018

Countdown and TV Action comics offered by Phil Comics auctioneers

There’s some great lots in this latest batch of comics-related auction items from British online comic auctioneers Phil Comics – including a near full set of the 1970s TV-inspired title Countdown and TV ACTION and Frankie Stein art by Robert Nixon.

TV Tornado Issue 59 – featuring Patrick Troughton as Doctor Who, published in 1968

Commando 17 – The Knifer

TV Tornado Issue 64 – with “The Avengers” cover

TV321 Issue 113 – featuring Thunderbirds cover

Forest J. Ackerman’s World of Science Fiction

World Adventure Library – The Man from UNCLE Issue 1

Battle Picture Library Holiday Special 1966

Beezer comic Issue 941 – cover dated 26th January 1974, with its Glow-Mask free gift

The latest auction includes many US comics alongside early issues of The Beano and Dandy, Commando, Air Ace and much more – over 500 lots, including a reproduction 1960s Batman film poster, with Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho poster on the reverse.

Reproduction Batman (1966) Poster. This is a version that was released as a double-sided poster, with the Psycho film poster on the reverse. Origin unknown

The star lot in this latest auction is one of three pages of Robert Nixon artwork – the rear cover of the 1976 Frankie Stein annual complete with text and of course the R.T. Nixon signature. Glorious!

Frankie Stein Annual 1976 Rear Cover artwork by Robert Nixon

Based in Bassingbourn, Hertfordshire, Phil Comics is a vintage comic dealers and online auctioneers specialising in British comics, annuals, summer specials, free gifts and original artwork from the 1930s to the 1980s.

They’re always looking to buy collections and offer them on eBay.

• Check out Phil’s Comics here on eBay | Web: www.phil-comics.com | Follow Phil’s Comics on Twitter @philcomics

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John Freeman

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.