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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.

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Showing posts with label Christmas issues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas issues. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2019

WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART TWO



Here is the second batch of 1978 WHOOPEE! pull-out X-mas cards. Merry Christmas!





Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd

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Monday, December 23, 2019

WHOOPEE! 1978 CUT-OUT X-MAS CARDS – PART ONE



If you enjoyed my previous two posts with 1979 WHOOPEE! pull-out Christmas labels, you might like the next two featuring the pull-out X-mas cards offered to the readers of WHOOPEE! in 1978.


There were 10 cards all in all, and they were printed in WHOOPEE! issues cover-dated 18th and 25th November and 2nd December 1978. WHOOPEE! was affected by industrial action in December 1978 and missed three weeks after Dec. 2nd, so it was nice of the editors to supply the young readers with the nice set of cards well beforehand. Here are the first six, and four more will follow soon. Enjoy!







Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd


I am celebrating the 100th birthday of KEN REID by offering free prints of his original artwork with every purchase of THE POWER PACK books! Press here and claim your copies now!


Sunday, December 22, 2019

MORE WHOOPEE! 1979 CUT-OUT X-MAS LABELS



Here are the remaining 8 cut-out Christmas labels offered to WHOOPEE! readers in 1979:



Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd

Friday, December 20, 2019

WHOOPEE! 1979 CUT-OUT X-MAS LABELS



One of the things that made IPC comics different from those of their competitors was the posters, mini-booklets and other fun pull-outs. In 1979 Whoopee! celebrated X-mas by offering cut-out labels featuring its big stars in the three issues cover-dated 8th, 15th and 22nd of December. Here are the first three pages. I will save the remaining two for the next post.




Characters are © Rebellion Publishing Ltd

Readers must have loved the various extras because they are often missing in the comics offered on auction sites. When building my Whoopee! collection, I wanted all of my copies to be complete, and although the comic is not too difficult to find, it took me quite some time to get hold of everything with nothing missing (for some reason, a 1979 February issue with Supermum pull-out booklet was particularly hard to find). Whoopee! is my favourite IPC comic and I still plan to cover it in detail at some point, but until I get round to this ambitious quest, I might do a series of year-by-year accounts of the various Whoopee! pull-outs next year.

I am celebrating the 100th birthday of KEN REID by offering free prints of his original artwork with every purchase of THE POWER PACK books! Press here and claim your copies now!