Old-fashioned Comics

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

PRINCE VALIANT (Dell Four Color Comics) 7 issues (Complete Series)

Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is an American long-running comic strip created by Hal Foster in 1937. It is an epic adventure that has told a continuous story during its entire history, and the full stretch of that story now totals more than 4000 Sunday strips. Currently, the strip appears weekly in more than 300 American newspapers, according to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.

Edward, the Duke of Windsor, called Prince Valiant the “greatest contribution to English literature in the past hundred years.” Generally regarded by comics historians as one of the most impressive visual creations ever syndicated, the strip is noted for its realistically rendered panoramas and the intelligent, sometimes humorous, narrative. The format does not employ word balloons. Instead, the story is narrated in captions positioned at the bottom or sides of panels. Events depicted are taken from various time periods, from the late Roman Empire to the High Middle Ages, with a few brief scenes from modern times (commenting on the “manuscript”).

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Authors:

Covers

Pencils, Inks and Colors

Don Spaulding ?, Sam Savit, Franco Picchioni, Morris Gollub, George Wilson (painting)

(painting)

Comic stories

Script: Dudley Nichols (screenplay); Paul S. Newman (comic adaptation)

Pencils: Bob Fujitani

Inks: Bob Fujitani

Colors: ?

Letters: ?

Information thanks to the Grand Comics Database

Links: 7 issues⇲⇲

The Beano - 10 November 2018

Publisher: D. C. Thomson & Co.

Schedule: Weekly

Format: Ongoing

Genre: Anthology

Children's humour

Publication date 30 July 1938 to present

No. of issues 3949 (as of 22 August 2018)

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Issue published on November 3, 2018.
36 pages issue.

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Mandrake the Magician #01 - #10 (1966-1967) King Features

1966 Series

Publication Dates:

September 1966 - November 1967

Number of Issues Published: 10 (#1 - #10)

Pages: 36

Indicia frequency: bi-monthly

Color: Color cover and interior

Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U.S.

Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series

Publication Type: magazine

Authors:

Script:

Dick Wood, Gary Poole, Paul Norris (signed), Giovanni Fiorentini.

Pencils:

Don Heck, Andre LeBlanc, Bill Lignante Ray Bailey, Ray Bailey ?, Fred Fredericks ?,

Paul Norris, Domenico Mirabella(signed)

Inks:

André LeBlanc, Mike Peppe, Bill Lignante, Ray Bailey ?, Fred Fredericks ?,

Paul Norris (signed), Domenico Mirabella

Colors: ?

Letters:

Charlotte Jetter, Ben Oda

Links: Mandrake the Magician #01 - #10 ⇲⇲

Eagle Picture Library #01 – #14 (1985) - IPC Complete series

1985 Series
Publisher: IPC

Publication Dates: 1985

Number of Issues Published: 14 (#1 – #14)

Color: Colour cover; Black and white interior

Dimensions: Pocket size

Paper Stock: Glossy Covers; Newsprint Interiors

Binding: Squarebound

Publishing Format: Was ongoing

Pages:68
Indicia frequency: Two titles a month

Authors:

Script: ?

Pencils: Joe Colquhoun, Brian Lewis

Inks: Joe Colquhoun, Brian Lewis

Colors: ?

Letters: ?

Links: Eagle Picture Library #01 – #14⇲⇲

The Beano - 03 November 2018

Publisher: D. C. Thomson & Co.

Schedule: Weekly

Format: Ongoing

Genre: Anthology

Children's humour

Publication date 30 July 1938 to present

No. of issues 3949 (as of 22 August 2018)

Main character(s)

Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, The Numskulls, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz and Tricky Dicky. Earlier characters who have been phased out include Ball Boy,

Ivy the Terrible, The Three Bears and Pansy Potter. Some old characters, like Biffo the Bear,

Lord Snooty, Baby Face Finlayson and Little Plum,

Artist(s)

Nigel Parkinson

Wayne Thompson

Lew Stringer

Paul Palmer

Nigel Auchterlounie

Editor(s)

George Moonie (1938–1959)

Harold Cramond (1959–1984)

Euan Kerr (1984–2006)

Alan Digby (2006–2011)

Michael Stirling (2011–2012)

Craig Graham (2012–2015)

John Anderson (2015–present)

The Beano is the longest running British children's comic magazine, published by DC Thomson. The comic first appeared on 30 July 1938, and was published weekly. In September 2009, The Beano's 3,500th issue was published. One of the best selling comics in British popular culture, along with The Dandy, the weekly circulation of The Beano in April 1950 was 1,974,072.[3] The Beano is currently edited by John Anderson. Each issue is published on a Wednesday, with the issue date being that of the following Saturday. This means Beano will strike 4000 in the summer of 2019.

Its characters include Dennis the Menace, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, The Numskulls, Roger the Dodger, Billy Whizz and Tricky Dicky. Earlier characters who have been phased out include Ball Boy, Ivy the Terrible, The Three Bears and Pansy Potter. Some old characters, like Biffo the Bear, Lord Snooty, Baby Face Finlayson and Little Plum, have more recently made a return as "funsize" quarter-page strips.

The style of Beano humour has shifted noticeably over the years,[4] though the longstanding tradition of anarchic humour has remained. For decades strips have appeared to glorify immoral behaviour, e.g. pranking/bullying (Dennis the Menace), dishonesty (Roger the Dodger) and even robbery (Baby Face Finlayson and The Three Bears). Although the readers' sympathies are assumed to be with the miscreants, the latter are very often shown punished for their actions. Recent years have seen a rise in humour involving gross bodily functions, especially flatulence (which would have been taboo in children's comics prior to the 1990s), while depictions of corporal punishment have declined. For example, the literal slipper – "The Demon Whacker" (Dennis the Menace's father's instrument of chastisement) – has become the name of the local chief of police (Sergeant Slipper)...

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