Monday, 1 September 2025

A Classic in Pictures (1949) 01-12 [Complete Series] Contributed by Jens Terje

Publisher: Marx; Philmar; P.M. Productions; Amex; Bairns
Publication Dates: 1949 - 1949
Number of Issues Published: 12 (#1 - #12)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Publication Type: magazine
Indicia Publishers:
Amex Company Ltd. (12 issues)

Titles and authors:

01 - Oliver Twist   Cover ?

 Script: Charles Dickens (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: Cecil Doughty

02 - Ivanhoe     Cover :  F. A. Philpott

 Script: Charles Dickens (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: F. A. Philpott

03 - Macbeth   Cover :  ?

 Script: William Shakespeare (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

04 - Westward Ho   Cover :  ?

 Script: Charles Kingsley (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

 05 - Treasure Island    Cover :  ?

 Script: Robert Louis Stevenson  (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

06 - A Tale of Two Cities    Cover :  ?

 Script:  Charles Dickens  (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

07 - Lorna Doone   Cover :  ?

 Script:  R. D. Blackmore  (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

08 - Three Musketeers  Cover :  ?

 Script:  A. Dumas  (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

 09 - Henry V    Cover :  ?

 Script: William Shakespeare (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

 10 - Barnaby Rudge   Cover :  ?

 Script:  Charles Dickens  (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

11 - Mutiny on the Bounty    Cover :  ?

 Script:  Charles Dickens  (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿

12 - Julius Caesar    Cover :  ?

 Script: William Shakespeare (credited) ? (adaptation)  Pencils & Inks: ¿







Friday, 29 August 2025

The Cases of Judge Gallows from The Unexpected. The Complete Series (1969-1972) - Compiled by Voltaire57

The Complete Series of  The Cases of Judge Gallows from The Unexpected

Published in the years 1969-1972

The Cases of Judge:

 1. The Tunnel of Fear. Dave Wood  Curt Swan/Mike Esposito

2. Play a Tune of Treachery!. George Kashdan  John Calnan

3. Within These Walls Dwells Fear.  George Kashdan / Dick Dilin

4. Know no Evil. George Kashdan   Jerry Grandenetti 

5. Agnes doesn’t haunt here anymore.  George Kashdan   Dick Dilin/Frank Giacoia

6. You Must Have a Taste For It.   Arnold Drake   Win Mortimer

7. Burial Rights.  Arnold Drake  Vic Catan


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Thanks to Voltaire 57 for these magnificent albums

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

Capt. Marvel and the Horn of Plenty! [Fawcett Miniature] 1946 Fawcett


 Issue Data:
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: ?
Series Data:
Color: Color front cover; Black, White and Red interior
Dimensions: 4" x 5" (10.2 cm x 12.7 cm)
Paper Stock: Newsprint
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: One-Shot; premium
Publication Type: magazine
Indexer Notes: Wheaties premium.

Table of Contents:

- The Horn of Plenty
Captain Marvel / comic story / 12 pages
Script: Otto Binder
Pencils & Inks: Pete Costanza
Genre:superhero
 Reprints 
 from Captain Marvel Adventures (Fawcett, 1941 series) #20 (January 22, 1943)

- The Gorgon's Head!
Bulletman / comic story / 12 pages
Script: ?
Pencils & Inks: ?
Genre:superhero
Reprints:

 from Bulletman (Fawcett, 1941 series) #4 (March 11, 1942)




Friday, 22 August 2025

John Brody from Boy's World (1963-1964). The Complete Series - Compiled by Voltaire57


The Complete Series of  John Brody from Boy's World

Published in the years 1963-1964

Summary

 1. What is Exhibit X ?  -  19 double pages

2. House on Scar Island  -  22 double pages 

3. The Fire Creatures   -  17 double pages

4. The Invisible Man   -  5 double pages

5. The Green Men  -  12 double pages

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Thanks to Voltaire 57 for these magnificent albums

Wednesday, 20 August 2025

Sun #0001# - #462 (Various issues) + 2 Extras (1947-1959) J. B. Allen - Amalgamated Press




The Sun (originally simply Sun) was comic launched on 11 November 1947 by publisher
 J. B. Allen, changing from weekly to fortnightly during its run.
 It had previously been a health magazine called Fitness and Sun. 
The publisher was taken over by the Amalgamated Press in 1949, and under the first editor
 Leonard Matthews it featured fewer humour strips and more adventure ones.
It ran until 17 October 1959,
when it was merged into Lion. Len Wenn was a later editor.

SunA later issue with a new cover strip.

J. B. Allen, 1947 Series
Published in English (United Kingdom) 

Publication Dates:  1947 - 1959
Number of Issues Published:  41 (#01 - #41)
Color:
Red & Green Front Cover; Red & Green Back 
Cover; Red & Green Centrefold; Black & White Interior
Dimensions:  91/2"x 121/4"
Paper Stock:  Newsprint
Binding:  Loose Pages
Publishing Format:  Was ongoing series

Tracking:
numbering continues with Sun Comic (Amalgamated Press), 1949 series) #42

 numbering continues with Sun (Amalgamated Press, 1952 series) #164

Note:
Early issues titled (Fitness and) Sun

Script:  
Pencils: Inks:  Colors:  Editing:  ?




Strips included:

    "Addy"
    "Ali Barber" (Frank Minnitt)
    "Battler Britton" (Geoff Campion)
    "Billy the Kid" (Geoff Campion, Don Lawrence, Alejandro Blasco, Harry Bishop)
    "Buck Jones"
    "Clip McCord, Special Agent" (Reg Bunn)
    "Deed-a-Day Danny" (Hugh McNeill)
    "Dick Turpin" (Mike Butterworth, Hugh McNeill, 1951-54)
    "Formula 'X'"
    "Harold Hare" (Harry Hargreaves)
    "Jak of the Jaguars" (Patrick Nicolle)
    "John and Joan" (R. W. Plummer)
    "Johnny Conquest" (Gino D'Antonio)
    "Kindheart"
    "Lancelot Lake" (Hugh McNeill)
    "Max Bravo" (Mike Butterworth and Eric Parker)
    "Mike" (Eric Roberts)
    "Moko the Monk" (Robert MacGillivray)
    "Ollie" (Harry Hargreaves)
    "Patsy and Tim" (Eric Parker)
    "Robin Hood" (Reg Beaumont)
    "Roy Rogers"
    "Sherwood Outlaw" (Reg Beaumont)
    "Simon the Simple Sleuth" (Hugh McNeill)
    "Sitting Bull"
    "Sparks and Flash" (Roland Davies)
    "Stonehenge Kit the Ancient Brit" (Norman Ward)
    "The Swiss Family Robinson" (Bob Wilkin)
    "The Terrible Three" (Martin Clifford)
    "Voyage to Venus"
    "Wild Bill Hickok" (D. C. Eyles)
    "Young Joey" (Hugh McNeill)







Monday, 18 August 2025

The Victor (0901-0950) D.C. Thomson, 1961

  The Victor

The Victor was a British comic paper published weekly by D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd. The Victor ran for 1,657 issues from 25 January 1961 until it ceased publication on 21 November 1992. Associated with it was the annually published The Victor Book for Boys. This annual was first published in 1964, with the last edition published in 1994. A hardback book, The Best of The Victor, was published in 2010 ready to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this popular adventure comic. The book featured a selection of reprints from the weekly comic....


The Victor (0901-0950)

May 27th, 1978  /   May 5th, 1979 



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