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In Review: Bear Alley Books “Longbow” classic British comics collections
Offering intense, fast-paced action adventure, “Longbow of the Cheyenne” is surely classic British weekly comics at its best…
Creating Comics: An Archive Interview with Roy of the Rovers co-creator Frank S. Pepper
The Continuing Adventures of Frank S. Pepper This feature offers the full text of an interview Andrew Darlington conducted with the legendary writer Frank S. Pepper, extracted from a long series of correspondence, exactly as it was published in the… Read More ›
Lost British Comic Projects: SCOOPS, a Newspaper Comic
In January’s initial downthetubes tribute to the late Ron Smith, pages of original artwork – that had earlier appeared on eBay – were presumed to have been for the artist’s own speculative adventure comic project. This confusion arose from the… Read More ›
Looking back at Battle Action Force
Many older British comic fans will remember Marvel UK’s Action Force comic, but the team had another home – in issues of IPC’s Battle in the early 1980s. Luke Williams looks back at the stories… By the early 1980s, sales… Read More ›
Step aside WWE, here’s Johnny (Cougar, that is)! But could this comics hero make a comeback today?
Long before WWE in its present form and ITV’s Gladiators there was a wrestling star that outfought all his opponents – Johnny Cougar, a Canadian Seminole mat fighter, co-star of the long-running weekly comic Tiger alongside the likes of “Roy of… Read More ›
Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Nine
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 ›
Missing In Action: Marvel UK’s “Zip” anthology
Marvel UK published a huge number of anthology titles down the years, starting with Mighty World of Marvel in the early 1970s through to Overkill in the 1990s – but one that got away in the company’s final years was Zip,… Read More ›
In Review: Ro-Busters – The Complete Nuts and Bolts Volume 1
Ro-Busters: The Complete Nuts and Bolts Volume 1 Written by Pat Mills Art by Carlos Pino, Jose Luis Ferrer, Dave Gibbons, Ian Kennedy, Kevin O’Neill, Mike Dorey, Geoff Campion Available from books stores, Amazon and comic book stores on the… Read More ›
Dan Dare, Eagle, Beano, Thunderbirds and TV21 gems in latest ComPal auction
Two gorgeous Don Harley-created Dan Dare sketches, rare Beano and Dandy issues from World War Two and plenty of Fleetway Picture Library items are just a few of the lots in the September ComPal comic auction, which has just… Read More ›