CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: DALEK SWEET CIGARETTE CARDS

Wednesday, 5 June 2013

DALEK SWEET CIGARETTE CARDS - PART THREE...

Well, let's not waste a second with inane chit-chat from me, but instead get straight to the pretty pictures featuring the friendly, loveable rascals from the planet SKARO - The DALEKS. They might have a bad rep, but they're simply misunderstood metal-clad mutants who want to take over the universe. How could anyone in their right mind possibly object to that?

These cards were produced by a confectionary company called CADET way back around the mid-'60s, and included with packets of sweet cigarettes - and that's all you really need to know.

6 comments:

John Pitt said...: You know I love 'em, don't you? But have you got the rare 1966 "annual" DR. WHO & THE INVASION FROM SPACE ? I'd really like to take a peek inside a copy of that!! JP; 5 June 2013 at 12:45
John Pitt said...: Incidentally, a little-known fact about the Voords is that their ultimate mission was to breed with the human race and produce a highly intelligent hybrid with computer-like intelligence. Rumour has it that one female such Voord/Man ( or Voord-a-man ) actually exists!!; 5 June 2013 at 13:02
Kid said...: Nope, don't have that, unfortunately.

As for the Voord/Man - actually exists in Dr Who's world - or in ours? (Why am I even asking?); 5 June 2013 at 13:48
John Pitt said...: I have heard that the creature somehow materialised in our dimension in the 80's in the middle of a countdown? Which is a bit of a conundrum. Since then there have been numerous other sightings all over the place.; 5 June 2013 at 20:35
Zaphod said...: 'Send a postal order for 1 rel'.
How much is that then?; 14 June 2013 at 03:41
Kid said...: One shilling in monetary terms - although (to confuse matters) a 'rel' is also supposed to be a second in Dalek time.; 14 June 2013 at 11:14

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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