CHB’s NEW COMIC STRIP THREAD

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    As a kid it was always exciting to have a comic with your birthday on it. So, as an extra on Monday’s, I will post a front page of a British comic with every day of the year covered during 2025. Hope you enjoy the one with your birthday on it! And it’s a good excuse to see a lot of covers, anyway 😁

    I am intending to use as many different comics as possible without repeating a title. In the time honoured tradition of British comics, many titles merged with each other, so if the cover of Smash! is posted then a cover of Smash! & Pow! would count as a separate comic title.

    January 10 - 19






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  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    Roy of the Rovers was another favourite of mine…it was the comic I subscribed to for the longest time…

    YNWA 97
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    I'd never heard of some of those.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    Our Batman Family feature continues with the first appearance of Scarecrow…

    WORLD’S FINEST #3




    Tomorrow, Alfred makes his first appearance…

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    The Scarecrow has always been one of the more interesting Batman villains; nice to see that origin story.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    BATMAN #16 - HERE COMES ALFRED!




    And indeed, Alfred would become a major character in the Batman Family, although his appearance would change somewhat.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    Vintage 🦇, love ye olde Batmobile.

  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    Absolutely spiffing, what! 😁

    YNWA 97
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    WARNING NOTICE

    The content of this comic strip contains very strong language not permitted in the ongoing threads of this site. It also contains themes that some readers may find upsetting. Reader discretion is advised for those who may be easily offended. The content has been cleared for posting by the moderators.

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    THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH - Chapter Sixteen - Why We Fight - Part One




    Continues tomorrow…

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    Roll on tomorrow 👏🏻👏🏻

    YNWA 97
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    This would make a superb mini series, there's too much for a movie.

  • caractacus pottscaractacus potts Orbital communicator, level 10Posts: 4,167MI6 Agent
    edited January 28

    sorry for not contributing to Batman supplemental material earlier. I havent had the time, and cant think of anything to add without doing research. Alfred I know started as a chubby man, then after a year or two was redesigned as a very thin man with a moustache, the classic Alfred design. In the 40s his surname was Beagle, by the 60s it was Pennyworth.

    but I'll post this: there was an Alfred solo story backup series that ran in the Batman title for a few years starting 1944. Due to wartime paper rationing, comics shrunk from 64 pages to I think 48 pages, and there was no longer room for four full length Batman stories. so one Batman story was dropped and replaced by a four page Alfred solo story. there was a similar Lois Lane solo series in the Superman series at the same time for the same reason, I posted an example somewhere upthread.

    here is the first of the solo Alfred stories, from Batman 22 May 1944, as sourced from a reprint in Batman 255 (which was itself a 100pg super Spectacular chock full of classic reprints!)


  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    Thank you @caractacus potts as ever, a lot of informative detail, which is much appreciated.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent
    edited January 24

    WARNING NOTICE

    The content of this comic strip contains very strong language not permitted in the ongoing threads of this site. It also contains themes that some readers may find upsetting. Reader discretion is advised for those who may be easily offended. The content has been cleared for posting by the moderators.

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    THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH - Chapter Sixteen - Why We Fight - Part Two



    And that comes in the next chapter to be posted next Thursday…

    Interesting news in that President Trump has ordered the release of all the remaining files relating to the JFK assassination - well, we are learning what happened now in this thread, aren’t we? 😁

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    Great story this…

    Yes, Trump said that…but, as usual, it looks like he’s incapable of keeping his word 🙄

    YNWA 97
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    I'd like to see that happen, but I'm not holding my breath. Meanwhile, we have this marvellous story.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    It’s the weekend and time for a new comic strip. If you like X-Files and conspiracy theories, then this is for you.

    SAUCER COUNTRY Prologue



    Continues tomorrow.

    George Adamski was a real person, and those books illustrated in the panels above are real published books.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    Tell us more ....

  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    Intriguing…

    YNWA 97
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    SAUCER COUNTRY Part 1



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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent


    Continues next weekend…

    Some background on George Adamski - he was a Polish-born American author whose works helped to fuel the UFO craze of the 1950s and 60s. Beginning in the late 1940s, Adamski produced numerous photographs of alien spacecraft. Then in 1952 Adamski sensationally professed to have met aliens from Venus in the California desert, communicating with them via a combination of mental telepathy and hand gestures.

    He documented his encounters in a series of best-selling books, beginning with Flying Saucers Have Landed in 1953. Inside the Space Ships was his second book, which describes further meetings with the ‘Venusians’ as well as with Martians and visitors from Saturn. According to the book, all of the planets of our solar-system were thus inhabited by human-like creatures, including the dark side of the moon. Adamski went ‘inside the space ships’, climbing aboard a scout ship, visiting an immense mother ship, being informed about the Venusian way of life, and meeting a 1000 year old ‘master’ who allegedly shared with him the secrets of the universe.

    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    I think I've seen a feature about him on YouTube, perhaps in "The Why Files".

    Good one, I'm keen to see where it goes

  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    Interesting story this…but, I think Adamski just wanted to sell books…

    YNWA 97
  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    He certainly made a lot of money, from both books and “talks” he did to paying audiences at various venues.

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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    It’s British comics on Monday’s so here is a selection of pages from various comics…(the first one is from the Daily Mirror with their daily comic strip page)…Queen of the Seas is by artist Ken Reid, he uses a very distinguished style and is famous for the Jonah comic strip from the Beano



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  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    As a kid it was always exciting to have a comic with your birthday on it. So, as an extra on Monday’s, I will post a front page of a British comic with every day of the year covered during 2025. Hope you enjoy the one with your birthday on it! And it’s a good excuse to see a lot of covers, anyway 😁 

    I am intending to use as many different comics as possible without repeating a title. In the time honoured tradition of British comics, many titles merged with each other, so if the cover of Smash! is posted then a cover of Smash! & Pow! would count as a separate comic title.

    January 20 - 26




    Yeah, well, sometimes nothin' can be a real cool hand.
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    A lot of material to read there! Can you tell a little about Garth? I didn't read him regularly.

  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 28,232Chief of Staff

    This Garth?

    I used to read this on and off too…it ran for a long time…

    YNWA 97
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 38,439Chief of Staff

    The one in the newspapers, can't tell if it's the same.

  • CoolHandBondCoolHandBond Mactan IslandPosts: 7,655MI6 Agent

    Yes, it is the same.

    Garth was a comic strip in the British newspaper Daily Mirror from July 24, 1943, to March 22, 1997. The strip belonged to the action-adventure genre and recounted the exploits of the title character, an immensely strong hero who battled various villains throughout the world and many different chronological eras.

    Steve Dowling and Gordon Boshell were the originators of the Garth character. Dowling wanted to create a British adventure comic strip, and took inspiration from the American comic pages/strips Superman, Flash Gordon and Terry and the Pirates. Dowling and Boshell took on 15-year-old John Allard to work on Garth, who stayed with the strip for its entire lifetime. After 59 adventures Dowling retired and handed Garth over to Allard, which he carried on until 1971 when Eagle comics’ Dan Dare artist, Frank Bellamy, took over the art with Allard writing the scripts. Garth’s longevity had been established by Don Freeman, who created almost every basic Garth plot on which the saga was built. Peter O’Donnell (of Modesty Blaise fame) also wrote extensively for the strip during its existence.

    Many books containing collected strips were published (interestingly I don’t remember the one you’ve posted, Sir Miles!). I do remember selling this one though…


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