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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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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

AGHHH-IT'S-'IM-JONAH: ORIGINALS VS. REPRINTS, PART TWO



Here comes part two of the “Mini-Sub” story of Jonah by Ken Reid, presented in the same way as part one, i.e. in pairs of matching rows from the Beano original (1961) and the reprint in Buddy (1983). This time the reprint was in spot colour because the back cover was reserved for a colour advert.








One doesn’t get to see Ken’s DC Thomson original artwork very often – presumably because DCT took better care of their archive than Odhams/Fleetway/IPC did of theirs. Fortunately, a few pages did find their way out of DCT vaults, and the episode shown above is one of them. Before you ask, I don’t own it. It is a prized item in the collection of my mate Derek who has kindly scanned the page for me. Here is a selection of panels for you to enjoy:






Contrary to what I said in the previous post, the “Mini-Sub” story of Jonah is not a two-part but a four-part story, and I will show the remaining two episodes in the next post.
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3 comments:

  1. Peter GrayAugust 5, 2015 at 8:21 AM

    Wonderful to see and so much detail...

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  2. Lew StringerAugust 5, 2015 at 10:46 AM

    Fantastic stuff. Such a pity they made the strange decision to use dull typeset for the reprint. It makes any humour in the dialogue fall a bit flat, like someone telling a joke in monotone.

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  3. James SpiringDecember 13, 2015 at 2:34 PM

    There's a continuity mistake in the Buddy version - it was First Lord last week, now it's Tenth.

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