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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 Valiant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Valiant. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2019

WEEKLY OUTPUT – REG PARLETT



Reg Parlett’s page count in IPC comics cover-dated 30th March 1974 was 7 pages. The artist had such a natural and flowing style, that it seems almost effortless but still very appealing to the eye. The quality of the art shows no signs that he struggled drawing his pages or had to rush them in order to meet his deadlines. 

Two two-pagers in Whoopee! and Whizzer and Chips were centered around the much-overused but apparently very popular theme of poor kids vs the rich:







…while one page in Whoopee! represented the new favourite line of horror comedy:


And of course there were two pages of Billy Bunter in Valiant:



Had Buster not missed that week, the artist’s stats would have been not 7 but 10 pages. This is how Reg Parlett’s regular features in Buster looked like in the issue of the week before.  Happy Family was a reprint, so under normal circumstances Reg Parlett’s weekly output amounted to the impressive quantity of 9 pages at that time! 





Mike Lacey is next in line...

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Saturday, July 28, 2012

SPORTS THEME IN BRITISH COMICS TO CELEBRATE LONDON OLYMPICS 2012 (DAY 2)


In the 70s VALIANT had nice Mike Western covers some of which featured outstanding Olympic athletes from different countries. You could actually learn things by reading comics then...






My intention is to focus on humour comics and I’ll start with this nice crowded Pirates’ Olympic set by Leo Baxendale from BUSTER dated November 25th, 1968: