CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: GERRY ANDERSON'S TV CENTURY 21 COVER GALLERY

Tuesday, 16 September 2014

GERRY ANDERSON'S TV CENTURY 21 COVER GALLERY - PART SEVEN...

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Oh, all right then, you've talked me into it, you smooth-talking devils. Presented for your perusal are another ten covers from perhaps Britain's greatest-ever comic - TV CENTURY 21. Editor ALAN FENNELL was still in charge at this stage and the comic was still selling well, but that state of affairs wasn't destined to last forever, alas! However, that was still to come - for the meantime let's just enjoy how things used to be when TV21 was still a force to be reckoned with.

2 comments:

John Pitt said...: Please keep posting every issue you have, even post - #104. I don't know about you, but I couldn't really get into Zero X.
I think one of the nails in its coffin was when they decided to include football in the comic, which didn't belong in a futuristic telly comic. Wasn't Besty on one cover? I always said, between The Daleks and Captain Scarlet, that they should have done features on the TV Batman show, like the Dutch counterpart TV 2000. I have seen photos of these with the TV Batman in the headlines on the cover and they look great! What a missed opportunity!; 16 September 2014 at 15:42
Kid said...: Nah, I never took to Zero X either. For a start, not having seen any of the Thunderbirds movies, I didn't know them from Adam, and second, it just seemed like a poor copy of Fireball XL5, which I much preferred. Mike Noble's art was still great, but I just wasn't interested in the characters. Circulation must've been in free-fall (or what passed for it in the '60s & '70s) for them to include football stories, JP. That was obviously an attempt to reach a wider readership than the diminishing Gerry Anderson one. Batman? Probably cost too much for the rights in comparison to the other TV shows which the new version included.; 16 September 2014 at 19:05

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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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