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Hi and welcome to my blog about comics from other people’s childhood! It is dedicated primarily to British humour comics of the 60s and 70s. The reason they are not from my childhood is simply because I didn’t live in the UK back then (nor do I live there now). I knew next to nothing about them until fairly recently but since then I’ve developed a strong liking for the medium and amassed a large collection, including a number of complete or near complete sets. My intention is to use this blog as a channel for sharing my humble knowledge about different titles, favourite characters and creators as I slowly research my collection.
QUICK TIP: this blog is a sequence of posts covering one particular comic at a time. The sequence follows a certain logic, so for maximum results it is recommended that the blog is read from the oldest post up.
Copyright of all images and quotations used here is with their respective owners. Any such copyrighted material is used exclusively for educational purposes and will be removed at first notice. All other text copyright Irmantas P.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
STILL MORE DETECTIVE WORK (CONTINUED)
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
STILL MORE DETECTIVE WORK
Friday, August 17, 2012
MORE DETECTIVE WORK...
From SMASH! No. 9 (2nd April, 1966) |
From THE BEANO No. 943 (13th August, 1960) |
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Sunday, July 29, 2012
SPORTS THEME IN BRITISH COMICS TO CELEBRATE LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 (DAY 3)
Cricket and motor sports are not part of the Olympic Games, so I will leave them out. Football has already been covered extensively last month but I found one or two interesting examples and will probably include them in later posts. Tennis can also wait a bit. Today’s post is all about BOXING, and there is certainly no shortage of strips with the boxing theme.
From BEEZER No. 24 dated June 30th, 1956 |
From BEEZER No. 324 dated March 31st, 1962 |
From THE BEANO No. 754 dated December 29th, 1956 |
From THE BEANO No. 778 dated June 15th, 1957 |
From POW! No. 33 dated September 2nd, 1967 |
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
FOOTBALL THEME IN BRITISH HUMOUR COMICS TO CELEBRATE EURO 2012 (DAY 20)
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
FOOTBALL THEME IN BRITISH HUMOUR COMICS TO CELEBRATE EURO 2012 (DAY 13)
From BEANO No. 896 (19th September, 1959) |
From BEANO No. 750 (1st December, 1957) |
From BEANO No. 765 (16th March, 1957) |
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
FOOTBALL THEME IN BRITISH HUMOUR COMICS TO CELEBRATE EURO 2012 (DAY 5)
From Scorcher cover dated 19th June, 1971 |
Sunday, June 10, 2012
FOOTBALL THEME IN BRITISH HUMOUR COMICS TO CELEBRATE EURO 2012 (DAY 3)
From Scorcher dated 7th March, 1970 |