CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART TWO OF A PICTORIAL TRIBUTE TO MICK ANGLO...

Wednesday, 16 November 2011

PART TWO OF A PICTORIAL TRIBUTE TO MICK ANGLO...

Here are some more covers from my collection of SUPER DC, the TOP SELLERS reprint title from the late '60s, early '70s. Also shown are the free gifts from issue #1. Traditionally, British comics had free gifts in the first three issues, but that was usually only with weeklies. Perhaps because it was a monthly publication, editor MICK ANGLO decided to put all three giveaways in the 1st issue - or it could've been that, individually, they weren't up to much, hence the 'quantity' rather than 'quality' approach.

If anyone has issue #14 of Super DC and wants to make a few quid, then get in touch. Then I can feature it on a future post. (Update: Now got it.)

With two or three exceptions (where interior panels were enlarged for the purpose), Mick Anglo is believed to have drawn the covers, using images from various DC sources as reference. If anyone knows anything different, I'd appreciate you letting me know.

Look out for the third and final part soon.

3 comments:

Amund said...: I'm sorry but i'm just not getting why Mick Anglo was so respected.

I've read tributes to him on other 'sites and at his best he seems to have been less than average and at his worst a copycat.

Those SuperDC covers are competent copies of Dc poses in bad compositions. so what?; 16 November 2011 at 20:33
Dougie said...: Really enjoying these covers. I don't remember them aside from a vague atavistic thrill of recognition with Mod Lois and Bert Lahr Superman. I wonder then if they ever made it to Strathaven? If I had seen the issue with Superman and Brainiac (?) I would have been all over that comic.

I want to know what was inside!

(The Captcha was Munin. Wasn't that one of Odin's ravens?); 16 November 2011 at 21:44
Kid said...: Amund, obviously because he's just died, and out of a sense of fond nostalgia for being involved in comics from our childhoods. Like Marvelman for a lot of people and Super DC for me.

Dougie, I'd guess they were available in Strathaven - they were everywhere else, but I think they were generally stuck on the spinner-racks with the US comics instead of being put on the counters with the UK ones.

Yup - Hugin and Munin.; 16 November 2011 at 23:57

About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artist on various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artist and spot illustrator on pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

For MARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as a restoration artist for MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

Have also made TV appearances as a collector of memorabilia.

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Just some of the titles I worked on are:

2000 A.D. * JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE * DICEMAN * SONIC The COMIC * JUDGE DREDD, LAWMAN Of The FUTURE * CRISIS * REVOLVER * EAGLE * TIGER * BATTLE ACTION-FORCE * BUSTER * WHIZZER & CHIPS * WHOOPEE * NIPPER * SCHOOL FUN * ACE VENTURA, PET DETECTIVE * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK.

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Images remain the property of their respective copyright owners and are used here only for the purpose of review, promotion, and nostalgia.

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(Although, if you don't allow copying on your own site, then you really shouldn't be copying from others, should you?)

And while you can credit this blog if you like, it's not mandatory. Who has time to make notes of every casually visited site during an idle browse of the Internet?

In the case of anyone copying images of my own artwork and calligraphy, I affirm my right to be identified as the creator, and any such copying should not be for the purpose of monetary or material gain. (Unless it's mine.)

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