CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: SUPER DC TEXT STORIES

Friday 7 February 2014

SUPER DC TEXT STORIES - PART ONE...

Back in the late 1960s or very early '70s, TOP SELLERS had a nifty little monthly comic mag on sale which reprinted (in b&w) various classic superhero tales from the stable of NATIONAL PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS Ltd., aka DC COMICS. It also featured U.K. produced text stories, which, I believe, were reprinted (and possibly abridged) from an earlier weekly comic entitled TV TORNADO.

There were only 14 issues of Super DC, so I thought all you 'Criv-ites' might enjoy seeing the first six double-page tales from issues 1-3 (there were two tales per issue) for you to read at your leisure. Want to see any more? Then be sure to let me know in the comments section.

4 comments:

John Pitt said...: Thanks for sharing these. Wish I had them all.; 8 February 2014 at 00:12
Kid said...: Wish I could find a copy of #14, JP. Glad you enjoyed them.; 8 February 2014 at 00:24
John Pitt said...: I would also be interested in a post about TV Tornado if you have any? I can only remember one text story with the penguin - A is for acid. Did Mick Anglo write these stories?; 9 February 2014 at 13:02
Kid said...: I have a few TV Tornados, JP, so I'll get around to them eventually. I don't know who wrote the stories, but I believe that it was Mick Anglo who drew the illustrations for most of them - excepting the pics taken from actual U.S. strips, of course.; 9 February 2014 at 13:07

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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