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Sunday 21 September 2014
KELLY'S EYE FROM VALIANT ANNUAL 1974...
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Kelly's Eye was one of my 3 favourite Valiant strips. I particularly like the atmospheric art of Solano Lopez. I never had/read any annuals though, so not used to seeing him in colour.
ReplyDeleteJust think, JP - we could have Britain's very own version of the Justice League: Kelly's Eye, Robot Archie, The Steel Claw, Adam Eterno, The Steel Commando, Tri-Man and Johnny Future. If only there were a real comics industry in this country, with people who knew what they were doing, we could have home-grown superhero comics providing much-needed work for British contributors.
ReplyDeleteThat is one heck of a team you've assembled! It was always a dream of mine for Robot Archie to team up with the steel commando.
ReplyDeleteHey, have you got the Albion comics?-make interesting posts!
I have the collected edition, JP, but not the individual issues. I don't think I'd be able to open the book wide enough to scan it without damaging it, alas.
ReplyDeleteIn the (even) more geeky days of my youth I used to draw ( I was about 11 years old you so were talking stick characters) my own UK superhero group stories based on IPC and DC Thomson characters called The "Protectors of the UK" not realising that the acronym would have spelt out " PUK" (which in hindsight wasn't to far from what I had created))- from memory they consisted of Steel Claw, Kellys Eye, Spellbinder, The Spider. Rubberman, Dollman , Black Sapper, Billy the Cat, Red Star Robinson and Klanky (from Sparky) All of course revamped into Marvel type characters - I think Alan Moore stole my idea for "Albion" although obviously mine had a better plot and deeper characterisation :)
ReplyDeleteI meant to mention Rubberman, but forgot halfway through, McScotty - one of my favourite characters from Smash!, all those years ago. Although Moore, I believe, came up with the basic idea (after you), it was his daughter and her hubby who wrote the series. Never really worked for me, I have to confess.
ReplyDeleteYeah, got to have Rubberman, one of my Smash faves, along with Brian's Brain.
ReplyDeleteOf course, Alan Moore cameod a few British heroes ( names changed ) in Capt. Britain. Then later many turned up in 2000AD's Zenith.
Including Black Bob (in Zenith).
ReplyDeleteSomeone who I think did the UK homage thing much better than Albion even manged was the amazing Paul Grist in Jack Staff he had a version of just about all the IPC and DCT characters including Robot Archie, General Jumbo, and Janus Stark with a nod to (amongst others) Steptoe and Son and Dads army great stuff if you haven't read it I thoroughly recommend it
ReplyDeleteI've heard of it, McScotty, but never read an issue - I'll keep an eye out for it. I never got to read your deleted comment on Comic Bits Online - if you can remember what you said, send me a copy as I'd be interested in your views.
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