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Herb Trimpe
Don McGregor profiled, Herb Trimpe’s Marvel UK years recalled in Comic Book Creator
Herb Trimpe’s Marvel UK work in the spotlight
From Cents to Pence! Can you help solve a Captain Britain mystery?
Can you solve this Captain Britain mystery?
New edition of Jack Kirby’s “Captain America’s Bicentennial Battles” out this month, and there’s a bit of a mystery attached…
A Captain America comic cover art mystery… can you solve it?
Marvel Tales out in June to feature Captain Britain
Marvel Comics heads back to the 1970s in June with the release of Marvel Tales #1: Captain Britain, reprising the hero’s original origin
Could a Captain Britain TV series be back on the cards?
Updated 16:36: Could a possible barrier to a Captain Britain TV series now have been put behind the team who were working on such a “Producer’s Pitch” for such a project, back in 2016? Well, forgive us in advance if… Read More ›
New Life for “Superhero 2044” RPG?
Checker Book Publishing Group has announced that it has purchased the publishing rights to the classic super hero themed role playing game Superhero 2044 from Gamescience Publishing. Artists on board for the project include Simon Bisley, Val Mayverik, Rudy Nebres,… Read More ›
Pick a Card, Any Card, it’s an Ace! (Aces Weekly, that is!)
Aces Weekly, the on-line comic magazine, founded in 2012 by David Lloyd and Bambos Georgiou, has announced the release of a set of collectable “trading cards”, which give purchasers access to volumes of the award winning publication. Each of the… Read More ›
Captain Britain, 40 Years On – What Next For Marvel’s Very British Superhero?
October see the 40th anniversary of the ‘birth’ of Captain Britain in Captain Britain Weekly, but what’s next for the Marvel hero? Last month, Marvel UK and Captain Britain fan Mark Roberts published a feature recounting news about a potential Captain… Read More ›
Captain Britain guests in fan homage to Herb Trimpe
Captain Britain fans should be thrilled by this Herb Trimpe homage by comic creators Robin Barnard and Martin Hand, which features on the back page of the next issue of Robin’s latest free comic entitled Your Lord, Master and Emperor… Read More ›
In Memoriam: Herb Trimpe, co-creator of Captain Britain
Fans of legendary comics artist Herb Trimpe, the co-creator of Captain Britain and one of the first artists to draw Wolverine, have rushed to pay tribute to him. Herb Trimpe, whose death was announced yesterday by his cousin… Read More ›
Photo Review: 2D Festival – Creators At The Comics Fair
This year’s 2D Comics Festival in the UK’s 2013 City of Culture, Derry-Londonderry, was the largest comics event ever held in Northern Ireland. With talks and work shops in the days running up to the weekend, the weekend itself had… Read More ›
Malta Comic Con 2013 Annoounced
Malta Con organisers Wicked Comics have just announced the 2013 show will run the weekend of Saturday 30th November and Sunday 1st December at St. James Cavalier Valletta. The guest list has yet to be revealed, but, says Chris Le… Read More ›
Aces Weekly Volume 4 now online
Aces Weekly, published by David Lloyd, stuffed with creator-owned strips is now running its first week of the fourth collection of their great, exclusively digital, online comic art series which is appropriately called – Aces Weekly Volume Four! “It’s our… Read More ›
Paul Cornell: Hanging with the Captain
Back in 2008, during the publication run of Captain Britain and MI13 by Marvel Comics, downthetubes regular contributor and Judge Dredd: The Megazine feature writer Matt Badham conducted an interview with novelist, comics and TV writer Paul Cornell, as research… Read More ›