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• Radio Luxembourg’s “Dan Dare” – an unexpected Canadian Connection!

  By John Freeman on 26 July 2019 • ( 4 )

  

  downthetubes continues to track down Dan Dare-related items of ephemera and interest. One unexpected discovery is that the theme tune for the Radio Luxembourg Dan Dare radio show was also used for the 1950’s SF show Space Command, whose regular… Read More ›

• WebFind: Cold Type: The Years of Paste-Up Graphics, and the short comics career of Derek Duff

  By John Freeman on 26 July 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  If you’re under a certain age, you’d be forgiven for failing to recognise these tools of the trade many veteran comic creators and comics editors used to create their work. Finding an online edition of the Cold Type: The Years… Read More ›

• London Film and Comic Con offers “Creating Comics” panels

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2019

  

  As we previously reported, this weekend’s London Film and Comic Con has a huge roster of comic creators attending its show at Olympia this weekend – and they have a number of great comic-related talks, too, some definitely of interest… Read More ›

• Glasgow’s Ghost Comics Festival returns in October

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2019

  

  Were you at Glasgow’s Ghost Comics Festival last year – the festival for alternative comics? Do you wish it would happen again? Well, there’s no need to reminisce anymore, because Ghost is back, taking place on Saturday 26th October 2019. Ghost… Read More ›

• World War Two action all the way in new Commando comics

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2019

  

  Brand new issues of DC Thomson’s war comic Commando (Issues 5247-5250) are on sale now in all good newsagents. Featuring firemen on the Home Front, French pilots of the Free French Forces, an underaged murder suspect, and the German invasion… Read More ›

• Titan Comics Two go Mad in San Diego

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2019

  

  Titan Comics had a host of new projects to announce at this year’s San Diego Comic Con, and who better to do it than top editor David Leach and Titan Entertainment‘s Executive Vice President, Andrew Sumner? Rather than detail the… Read More ›

• HBO, BBC tease more from “His Dark Materials”

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2019

  

  Filming has already begun on the second season of the BBC and HBO’s adaptation Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials, with the first debuting later this year. The trilogy of books is being adapted for television by Bafta, Tony and Olivier… Read More ›

• HBO Drama Series Watchmen debuts in October

  By John Freeman on 25 July 2019

  

  Set in an alternate history where masked vigilantes are treated as outlaws, Watchmen, from executive producer Damon Lindelof (Emmy winner for Lost; HBO’s The Leftovers) debits on HBO in the United States in October. HBO says the new series embraces… Read More ›

• Apollo 11 at 50: Back to the Moon… and Beyond?

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2019

  

  Today, the descent stage of Lunar Module remains untouched where it was left in the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon. The ascent stage of the Lunar Module was left in a decaying lunar orbit and eventually crashed into the… Read More ›

• New Combat Colin out now!

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2019

  

  Lew Stringer‘s Combat Colin No.4 is available to order now and will be available exclusively from him at the London Film and Comic Con this coming weekend. Reprinting the “Combat Colin” stories from The Transformers Nos. 257 to 283, Combat… Read More ›

• Marvel’s D23 Expo 2019 plans unveiled

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2019

  

  With only one month left until Disney’s highly anticipated D23 Expo in Anaheim in the United States (23rd – 25th August), Marvel has announced its show floor lineup, which includes guest appearances and panels, stage events, exclusive merchandise. More will… Read More ›

• Comics Collectable Spotlight: Author Denis Gifford – The Auction Catalogues

  By Richard Sheaf on 24 July 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  Following on from John Freeman’s interview with comic collector extraordinaire Peter Hansen Richard Sheaf highlights some of the auction catalogues that were produced for the liquidation of comic creator, collector and author Denis Gifford’s collection, back in 2001.

• In Memoriam: Actor David Hedison

  By John Freeman on 24 July 2019

  

  I was very sorry to learn of the passing of David Hedison, the American actor probably best known to many for his roles in the James Bond franchise, but for me, as one of the stars of Irwin Allen’s hokey but fun SF adventure show, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

• Apollo 11 at 50: Whatever Happened to the Space Race?

  By John Freeman on 23 July 2019

  

  As the Apollo 11 Command Service Module covered the quarter of a million miles back from the Moon back to the Earth, NASA had big plans for the Moon, with Apollo only being the first step. 10 years ago on… Read More ›

• A Comics Collection for the Nation: An Interview with Peter Hansen

  By John Freeman on 23 July 2019 • ( 5 )

  

  downthetubes is delighted to present both a video and text interview with comics collector Peter Hansen, whose extraordinary archive of British comic art, comics and comics ephemera is an incredible “Aladdin’s Cave”

• Early Death’s Head stories omnibus on its way in 2020!

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2019

  

  With the new Death’s Head mini series by Tini Howard and Kei Zama launching later this month from Marvel in comic shops, it’s no surprise that a collection is also on its way, an “Omnibus” edition of Death’s Head adventures,… Read More ›

• Comic Creator Spotlight: Roland Davies and “Come On, Steve!”

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2019

  

  Here’s a few examples of the wonderful “Come on, Steve” strip, and a tribute to the strip’s creator, Roland Davies. Davies drew for the strip for both the Sunday Express and the Sunday Dispatch and I loved reading the stories… Read More ›

• BBC release new Doctor Who portraits by Jeremy Enecio

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2019

  

  BBC America unveiled new character portraits of the Doctors from Doctor Who at this year’s San Diego Comic Con – all 14 of them, including John Hurt’s War Doctor – illustrated by Jeremy Enecio. All the images are based on… Read More ›

• Apollo 11 at 50: Returning Home

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2019

  

  It was actually 21st July that the return to Earth began. Armstrong and Aldrin spent less than three hours walking on the Moon and lifted off in the Lunar Module’s ascent stage less than 22 hours after they had touched… Read More ›

• Marvel UK in Print: Captain Britain, Death’s Head, Doctor Who and more – A Quick Guide

  By John Freeman on 22 July 2019 • ( 3 )

  

  Marvel UK fans often comment on the lack of Marvel UK’s “Genesis 1992” related collections, but as we have reported down the years, at least some Marvel stories created in the UK have been reprinted, by Marvel US and Panini…. Read More ›

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