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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.

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Friday, January 17, 2014

BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 6



Next up are five covers of BUSTER from November 1963. The first one features The Boy Who New Two Much – a Western about a Texan boy whose great-grandfather’s sheriff’s badge occasionally enabled him to see into the future, allowing him to prevent crimes and robberies.


Eric Bradbury who was in charge of Maxwell Hawke stories never failed to come up with a dramatic splash panel whenever he was asked to draw one for the cover of BUSTER:


Eric Bradbury was also responsible for the panel of Mike Kane – Gladiator on the cover of the next issue. According to BUSTER Index by Ray Moore and Steve Holland, it was one of the last episodes by Mr. Bradbury before Bill Lacey took over illustrator’s duties in December.


Carlos Cruz is credited as the artist of Return of the Shrinker.


I don’t know who drew Black Axe in this issue and BUSTER index is not much help either:


As I explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might help fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about condition. See my blogger profile for the address.

MY WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 5


There were four issues of BUSTER in October 1963. The first one featured Return of the Shrinker – a story about an evil scientist who invented a powerful ray which was capable of shrinking humans and animals to midgets. Next week the front cover was given to Black Axe – a sword-and-sorcery tale without speech balloons. In that week's episode Black Axe and his companions confronted a fierce band of Vikings and then defeated some druids. The cover of October 19 issue featured Mike Kane Gladiator – a thriller yarn about a sports reporter who was a failure at all sports until he received the help of his ancestor – a Roman Gladiator. The last front cover feature of the month was Strongbow the Mighty – a western with a fantasy twist (steaming jungle, prehistoric monsters, etc…)


As I explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might help fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about condition. See my blogger profile for the address.

MY WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964

Saturday, January 11, 2014

BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 4



Let’s take a look at those fine front covers of BUSTER from September, 1963. The last one is my favourite from that month:


As I explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might help fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about condition. See my blogger profile for the address.

MY WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

BUSTER COVERS GALLERY - PART 3



Here are the front covers of all five issues of BUSTER from August 1963. If I were asked to name my favourite month of the lot, it would probably have to be this one because I find all the covers particularly dramatic and attention-grabbing. You will see some equally good examples later on but IMHO in August 1963 the concentration of goodness was the greatest.


As I explained in my introduction to this series HERE, I started it hoping perhaps it will attract the attention of BUSTER collectors with spare copies of the title and they’ll help me fill my few remaining gaps. Please, contact me via e-mail if you have copies to sell or swap and don’t mind shipping abroad because I am not in the UK. I have 25 – 30 spare copies from the early 60s and might be able to help you fill some of your gaps, so e-mail me for a list and details about condition. See my blogger profile for the address.

MY WANTS FOR BUSTER:
October 29, 1960
December 24, 1960
December 31, 1960
January 21, 1961
February 4, 1961
February 11, 1961
July 15, 1961
September 23, 961
December 30, 1961
June 20, 1964
July 4, 1964
July 11, 1964