The official Gerry Anderson web site has released the first of three Thunderbirds Legends animated videos
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In Review: Commando Presents Ramsey’s Raiders Volume 1
DC Thomson’s Commando digest sized combat picture library has been running continuously since 1961 and in that time it has become the British comic with by far the greatest number of issues ever published with over 5180 under its ammo-belt…. Read More ›
DC Thomson’s Heritage Brands Editor Gordon Tait Talks Buckets, War and Reprints
As the new Heritage Brands Editor at DC Thomson, replacing Kirsten Murray who inaugurated the role, Gordon Tait brings a great depth of knowledge and experience to the position that includes editorship of 104 issues of Commando a year plus… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Dan Dare and Thunderbirds comic artist Donald “Don” Harley
A British comics legend, one of the core team that created Dan Dare for Eagle, has passed
Apollo 11 at 50: The Race to the Moon celebrated in British comics
50 years ago today, the three astronauts making up the crew of Apollo 11, Command Module Pilot Mike Collins, Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin and Mission Commander Neil Armstrong were preparing for their launch on a Saturn V rocket from Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral in Florida
New “Eagle Times” tracks down New Eagle’s “Data File” artist, Lionel Jeans
The new Eagle Times– Winter 2018 Vol. 31, Number 4 -is now available and is packed with some entertaining material on both the original and 1980s Eagle comics – including two great items on the “Data Files” cutaways that ran in the… Read More ›
Artist Spotlight: The Art of Shigeru Komatsuzaki
Following up on our item on new Thunderbirds-inspired art from Vice Press, here’s some classic Gerry Anderson art, images by Shigeru Komatsuzaki, originally created from Japanese model kits
Commando’s commemoration of the Great War Armistice concludes with the final two Weekes’ War stories
Commando has been running World War One stories for the duration of November in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which stopped the fighting. The highlight of this has been the sequence of five connected stories under the… Read More ›
Radio Luxembourg’s Dan Dare show producer discovered?
A new BBC Radio 4 Extra show has highlighted a previously unnoticed player in Radio Luxembourg’s “The Adventures of Dan Dare” of the 1950s…
Ramsey’s Raiders – Competition Winners!
Last week, we gave downthetubes readers the chance to win one of three copies of the new Commando Presents: Ramsey’s Raiders (reviewed here), courtesy of DC Thomson. Here are the winners, chosen by the office cat (borrowed from Sparky, of course)…. Read More ›