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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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Monday, December 2, 2019

MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 2

Here are the next 11 Sparky back covers featuring The Moonsters by Bill Ritchie:

Images are © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

MOONSTERS ON SPARKY BACK COVERS – PART 1

A while ago I did a series of SPARKY front covers featuring The MOONSTERS by Bill Richie. I like this busy feature, so I thought I might do another string of posts and show every single installment which appeared on the back cover of the paper.

There were a total of 33 episodes (starting from SPARKY No. 2) before The Moonsters were promoted to the front page, and here are the first 11. I like the adverts at the bottom of the page in the first 8 installments. They look very 60s and very DC Thomson to me. Enjoy!

Images are © D.C.Thomson & Co. Ltd.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

THE MOONSTERS COVERS OF SPARKY - PART TWELVE

Here comes the twelfth and final part of SPARKY Moonsters covers gallery that I started back in May earlier this year. The final appearance of The Moonsters on the front cover of SPARKY was in issue No. 139 (Sept 16th, 1967).

Starting from issue 140, The Moonsters were given the back cover again, ousted from the front page by what is now perceived as the politically incorrect version of Sparky the character. Check out front and back covers of SPARKY issue No. 140:

The Moonsters continued to feature on the back page of the comic until issue 199: