*KAZOOP !!: Bill Ritchie

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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.

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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 6

The other day I found Bill Ritchie’s self-portrait in an episode of Hungry Hoss (The BEEZER cover-dated Jan. 19th, 1985), which has prompted me to post the next 10 instalments of The Moonsters as they appeared on the back cover of SPARKY in 1968.

Images are © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd.

Saturday, April 11, 2020

THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 5

It has been a quite a long time since my last gallery of SPARKY back pages featuring THE MOONSTERS by Bill Ritchie. Here is the next batch, from SPARKY Nos. 150 – 159 in 1967/68.

Images are © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd.

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 4

I recently acquired a copy of SPARKY No. 620 – the last issue that I needed for my complete set of this interesting title. I shared my joy on Twitter and on a few FB comics groups, and mentioned that I was after a complete copy of issue 110 because mine had its centre pages missing. Two fellow collectors responded to my appeal, and that elusive issue is now on its way to me from the UK!

I will celebrate this achievement by resuming my series of SPARKY back covers featuring the MOONSTERS by Bill Ritchie. A few years ago I did a string of galleries of all SPARKY front covers with the Moonsters (Nos. 35 – 139), and at the end of 2019 I did the first three galleries of the back covers (Nos. 2-34).

Here are the first 10 SPARKY back covers after the MOONSTERS were moved from the front cover to the back page once again starting from No. 140. Enjoy!

Friday, December 27, 2019

THE MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 3

Here are the next eleven SPARKY back covers featuring The Moonsters by Bill Ritchie. Click on the images to enlarge.

SPARKY No. 34 was the last issue before the strip was moved to the front cover of the comic, where it remained for 105 weeks. You can find the complete 12-part gallery of those front covers under Moonsters Covers Gallery label in the column on the right.