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Unique Dan Dare script, “Johnny Fartpants” art and “Free Gift” British comics under the hammer!
Latest auction features unique “Dan Dare” script from the 1960s
Football heroes on the front line in new Commando comic!
Throwing curveballs at all readers!
“Moonsleepers” Dan Dare art by Keith Watson offered at auction
Two pages from a later Dan Dare tale go under the hammer next month
In Review: The Complete Comet Jet Ace Logan
Derring-do in outer space and across space-time – classic British SF comics, collected
Spaceship Away, the Dan Dare-inspired SF comic anthology, celebrates landmark sixtieth issue
A landmark issue for the long-running independently-published SF comic magazine
New Spaceship Away is a treat for 2000AD and EAGLE artist John M. Burn fans
The new Spaceship Away is jam comes packed with enjoyable, classic strips
In Review: Vworp Vworp Issue Four
If you’re a fan of Doctor Who comics there is, simply, no good reason why you would not want this on your shelf
“The Uninvited Death”, a murder mystery novel from veteran Dan Dare author David Motton published
Levellers Press have published Commando and Dan Dare writer David Motton‘s long-awaited murder mystery novel, The Uninvited Death. Set in and around a market town in East Anglia, a man is found stabbed to death in a hotel car park… Read More ›
Comic Connections: TV Century 21, Dan Dare and Eagle – and Doctor Who
Revealing the many links between Gerry Anderson’s publications such as TV Century 21 and Dan Dare and Eagle…
Snapshots in Time: British comics editors on a night out in the 1950s
Dan Dare writer and author David Motton has unearthed a wonderful snapshot from his early days while working on British comics that he has kindly shared with downthetubes. “Very recently, my son Gregory (vide ‘Dan Dare All Treens Must Die’,… Read More ›
Spaceship Away nears its half century edition
The latest issue of Spaceship Away, Part 49, brings the Eagle-inspired comic zine closer to an impressive half century of issues, with a dramatic image of the “Dan Dare” villain, Xel, on its cover by Keith Watson
Snapshot in Time: Brian Woodford and The Launch of Boys’ World, Part One
A Short Introduction: Before his unexpected passing in 2016, author Roger Perry – a longtime contributor to this site and veteran of the British comics industry – sent downthetubes a number of articles which we planned to run, working back… Read More ›
Dan Dare: The Evil One collection released this September
The next Titan Comics collection of classic Dan Dare stories, The Evil One, will be published in September 2019. This brand new, 160-page volume continues the adventures of Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future! First published in classic British comic,… Read More ›
Dan Dare “The Venus Campaign” classic story collection revealed, and first ever collections of some stories on their way
Titan Comics will launch Dan Dare: The Venus Campaign its first “bumper” collection of classic Dan Dare stories in November, following a format similar to its James Bond compendiums, using new scans of the stories featured. Plus, there’s news of new… Read More ›
In Memoriam: “Billy’s Boots” and “Jet-Ace Logan” Comic Artist John Gillatt
Former Fleetway editor Barrie Tomlinson pays tribute to John Gillatt, the artist best known for his work on strips such as “Billy’s Boots”, “Black Archer” and “Jet-Ace Logan” (for Comet and Tiger), who we have just learned died in November…… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Eight
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 ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part One
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 ten part biography of the man which begins today on downthetubes, is only due to… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Eagle editor Bob Bartholomew
Steve Holland has reported on the passing of Bob Bartholomew, best known to the comics’ world as the editor of Eagle and Boys’ World in the 1960s, who died on Wednesday, 9th October, at the age of 90. “Bob had… Read More ›
In Review: Boys’ World: Ticket to Adventure by Steve Holland
Published by Bear Alley Books at £19.99 Paperback 208 black and white pages The Book: A detailed history of Boys’ World, a memorable high quality weekly which ran from January 1963 until October 1964, before being merged with Eagle, the… Read More ›