CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: PART TWO OF CLASSIC COMICS: COUNTDOWN #1...

Sunday, 17 August 2014

PART TWO OF CLASSIC COMICS: COUNTDOWN #1...

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As promised, here's the second part of COUNTDOWN #1 for all you Crivs to drool over. If you caught part one, you now have the complete issue of this collectors' item classic. I could drone on and on, giving you some background to the comic, but why bother? If you're interested, you can buy STEVE HOLLAND's new book, COUNTDOWN TO TV ACTION, which you can read more about by clicking here. (Better be quick though - it's a limited edition.)

Feel free to share any memories of Countdown/TV Action you have if you bought the comic back in the day. Which version did you prefer - the GERRY ANDERSON orientated one, or the revamped, wider-based TV adventure comic? Let us all know.

4 comments:

John Pitt said...: Well that's another first edition to thank you kindly for. I didn't find out about Countdown until a few issues before the name change, so never seen it before. I have it now, though. Cheers!; 22 August 2014 at 22:45
Kid said...: What I can't figure out, JP, is why part two has only had around half the hits of part one. Surely readers want to see the whole issue? Glad to have helped expand your collection.; 22 August 2014 at 22:50
John Pitt said...: That IS weird! Who could only read half a comic and not want to see the other half? Has everybody else already got it? Surely nobody DISLIKES it!; 22 August 2014 at 23:05
Kid said...: It's a mystery, JP, but quite common on this blog. Whenever I post a comic in two parts, the first part usually gets at least twice as many hits as the second.; 22 August 2014 at 23:35

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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