CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART TWO OF CAPTAIN BRITAIN COVER GALLERY...

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

PART TWO OF CAPTAIN BRITAIN COVER GALLERY...

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Poor ol' BRIAN BRADDOCK! Two attempts at a titled-mag devoted to his alter-ego CAPTAIN BRITAIN, and both of them fail. No wonder he got fed up and went and joined EXCALIBUR; that way, he wouldn't shoulder all the blame if that mag failed too. The first volume lasted 10 years, but the downside is that Cap couldn't claim all the credit for its success, having to share it with former X-MEN members and various other mutants. No luck, eh, Cap?!

Anyway, here are the remaining 7 covers of Cap's 1985 14 issue run. 'Twas a good little mag and should've survived for much longer. I wonder what he's doing with himself these days?

6 comments:

John Pitt said...: Following revisiting 3 old ORIGINAL CB posts, it has really got me interested l in his first incarnation. Could you recommend any books of reprints as I doubt they have been essentialized or master worked?; 18 March 2014 at 12:59
Kid said...: On the contrary, JP, there has been at least one Marvel Omnibus volume of original Captain Britain tales, preceded by a 5 volume softcover series by Panini/Marvel, which featured every Cap story from CB weekly #1, through Marvel Super-Heroes, The Daredevils and MWOM, right up to CB monthly #14. Also included are the Black Knight stories from Hulk Comic weekly, wherein CB made his return.; 18 March 2014 at 13:52
Anonymous said...: Kid, do you remember an incident from about No.16 of the Captain Britain weekly where the colour pages were printed in the wrong order and the following week there was an apology and the pages were re-printed in the right order (or something like that - my memory is rather hazy about it all).; 18 March 2014 at 14:25
Kid said...: I forget the issue number (my collection of CBs is buried in a cupboard), but I remember that well. At the time, I think I mixed the new pages with the old so that there was no reference to them being out of order and the mag in question looked as if it had been printed correctly. Then I realised that the issue which had contained the proper-order pages wasn't complete and put them both back together the way they were.; 18 March 2014 at 14:50
John Pitt said...: Thanks for that info, Kidda, going to look for the panini soft covers, which I HOPE haven't been chopped, like the reprints in the 1980 summer special!; 18 March 2014 at 21:34
Kid said...: Nope, JP, the Panini reprints are complete and unabridged. If it's only the original Cap you're interested in, the first couple of volumes should do you.; 18 March 2014 at 23:09

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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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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