CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: KID'S CHRISTMAS CLASSICS: TV COMIC'S LAST CHRISTMAS...

Monday, 22 December 2014

KID'S CHRISTMAS CLASSICS: TV COMIC'S LAST CHRISTMAS...

Believe it or not, but you're looking at a genuine collectors' item classic - the very last Christmas edition of TV COMIC, a periodical which began in November 1951 and lasted 'til June 1984. If my simple arithmetic is correct, that means there were 33 Christmas issues over TV Comic's lengthy run, a feat not to be sneezed at.

Hopefully, the pages that follow are actually from the above issue; I scanned them some time back along with some other Christmas strips and my folders are in a slight state of disarray at the moment, but I think I've got the right ones. So, what are you waiting for? Stick on the JIM REEVES Christmas CD and away you go!

10 comments:

Gey Blabby said...: "Boom! Boom! Mr Derek!" (That fourth word will be enough to show where my allegiances lie.)
I've never seen Basil with legs before and I have to say that it's an extremely disconcerting sight.

I used to have a plastic Popeye record player back in the 60s - it had a white or light pink turntable. I don't know why I had it as I wasn't particularly keen on the character - I think I must just have been given it as a present at some time.; 22 December 2014 at 10:41
Kid said...: The comic strip version of Basil also has longer arms. And betcha that record player's worth a small fortune these days, GB.; 22 December 2014 at 13:07
Anonymous said...: I was going to mention Basil Brush's feet as well - whatever happened to him anyway ? He just completely disappeared after being a staple of Saturday evening TV - wasn't there a Mr. Roy, there were probably a few of them I suppose.; 22 December 2014 at 13:25
Kid said...: Basil enjoyed a TV revival a few years back, CJ, and is currently in panto, I think. Honest.; 22 December 2014 at 13:38
TwoHeadedBoy said...: That Basil Brush story's my new favourite comic page - we forgot about the ghosts!; 22 December 2014 at 14:26
Kid said...: Mental, is what it is, THB. (Great stuff!); 22 December 2014 at 14:31
John Pitt said...: Did you have any inkling that it was going to just stop without a word when it did?; 23 December 2014 at 00:01
Kid said...: No, because I wasn't buying it regularly when it stopped, JP. The first I knew was when Bob Paynter (youth group editor of IPC's humour division) pointed out the last issue sitting on a rack in his office on the 20th floor of King's Reach Tower one day. When I expressed my dismay at missing the last issue, he let me take his copy.; 23 December 2014 at 00:50
Chris Sobieniak said...: I recall reading these pages before, perhaps on another blog.; 23 December 2014 at 06:00
Kid said...: It was probably on this one, Chris. This is a re-post under my 'Kid's Classics' (he said with a straight face) banner. It sounds better than 'Can't think of anything to write, so here's one I made earlier.'; 23 December 2014 at 07:06

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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