Old-fashioned Comics: 2025

Wednesday, 3 December 2025

Heros The Spartan 01- Frank Bellamy's Years (Eagle 1962-1966) - Compiled by Voltaire57

The Adventures of Hero the Spartan I

I— ISLAND OF DARKNESS (EAGLE 1962-1963)

II— THE EAGLE OF THE FIFTH (EAGLE 1963)

III— THE MAN OF VIAH (EAGLE 1963-1964)

IV— MARK THE WARRIOR (EAGLE ANNUAL 1965)

V— AXE OF ARGUTH (EAGLE 1964)

VI— THE WOLF MEN (EAGLE 1964-1965)

VII— THE SLAVE ARMY (EAGLE 1965)

VIII— HEROS THE OUTLAW (EAGLE 1965)-1966)

IX— THE WOLFMEN (EAGLE ANNUAL 1966)

X— BATTLE WITH THE GAULS (EAGLE 1966)

XI— UNTITLED (EAGLE ANNUAL 1967)

P.S. The adventures in blue were drawn by Frank Bellamy

King Classics (1977 King Features Series) #023 - The Prince & the Pauper / #024 - Lawrence of Arabia

Publication Dates: 1977 - 1978

Number of Issues Published: 24 (#01 - #24 )

Color: Color

Dimensions: 7 1/4 inches wide by 10 1/2 inches tall

Paper Stock: Newsprint

Binding: Saddle-stitched

Publishing Format: Limited Series

Publication Type: magazine

Tracking: Cardstock cover

Notes: All issues first released in 1977 and reissued in 1979.

All reprints from Spanish publications.

Editorial Bruguera, S.A. 1977. King Features Syndicate, New York. Printed in

Talleres Gráficos de EBSA, (Barcelona 1977 - Spain)

A back-cover promo lists 32 titles, though most sources state that only 24 were published. The remainder, planned but possibly never published in English are: 25 A Tale of Two Cities; 26 Ben Hur; 27 Heidi; 28 Little Women; 29 The Mysterious Island; 30 The Pirate; 31 The Phantom Ship; 32 King Solomon's Mines.

https://www.comics.org/series/26575/

23 - The Prince & the Pauper

Price: 0.59 USD Pages: 36

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Antonio Bernal (painting)

Script: José Antonio Vidal Sales (adaptation)

Mark Twain (original)

Anne Mueser (credited as Dr. Anne Mueser) (translation)

Pencils & Inks: Cándido Ruiz Pueyo

Reprints from

Joyas Literarias Juveniles (Editorial Bruguera, 1970 series)

# 32 - Príncipe y Mendigo (1971)

#024 - Lawrence of Arabia

Price: 0.59 USD Pages: 36

Cover/ Pencils & Colors : Antonio Bernal (painting)

Script: José Antonio Vidal Sales (adaptation)

Enrique Martínez Fariñas (original)

Pencils & Inks: Luis Castelló Luque

Reprints from

Joyas Literarias Juveniles (Editorial Bruguera, 1970 series)

# 32 - Príncipe y Mendigo (1971)

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The Last Six Hundred from The Victor (1965) - Compiled by A. Wallace

The Last Six Hundred

Written by ?? , Drawn by Marie?

No. 240 (Sept. 25th 1965) to No. 253 (Dec. 25th 1965)

Reprinted #746 - #759

Sci-fi

Poisonous ferns have invaded Earth, except for
Portland Island, off the coast of Britain; animals
have also increased in size...

Featuring: Tom Stone; Pierce the Hunter.

This adventure continues in The Quest of the Last Six Hundred

#371 (Mar. 30th 1968)- #382(June 15th 1968)

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/artistidentify.html

http://www.victorhornetcomics.co.uk/victorindex.html

Material from The Victor

39 pages

Compiled by A. Wallace

The Black Beetle. The Complete Series - Compiled by Voltaire57

The Black Beetle is a comic book series about a masked vigilante. It was created by

Francesco Francavilla and published by Dark Horse Comics.

The first drawing of The Black Beetle

The Black Beetle made its first appearance on the forum drawingboard.org on the twelfth of January, 2006, as ten-minute doodle. In 2009, Francesco Francavilla held a poll on his blog, Pulp Sunday. He had decided to do a webcomic and asked readers whether they would rather Max Malone or The Black Beetle, described as "in the vein of masked vigilante pulp in some sort of '40s/'50s settings, with some slight (40s/50s) sci-fi tone to it". More than two-thirds of the readers voted for The Black Beetle. Shortly after, he came up with the setting of Colt City, his own mix between New York City and Gotham City...