CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: SUPERMAN, BATMAN, ORION, And DOOMLORD...

Wednesday, 19 August 2026

SUPERMAN, BATMAN, ORION, And DOOMLORD...

Above, DC's Facsimile Edition of World's Finest Comics # 195, below, their facsimile of New Gods #1, not long arrived at Castel Crivens and straight on to my scanner to share with you Crivvies. Nothing to complain about with either of these two titles, so I heartily recommend them to you to add to your collections. The World's Finest cover looks like a 'Swanderson' effort to me, but perhaps regular reader McS will tell me it's pencilled by Adams and inked by Anderson - I'm considering the possibility 'cos I'm too lazy to look it up for myself.

Next, Hybernia Books' two volumes of collected reprints of the 'new' Eagle's Doomlord stories from the '80s, the first consisting of illustrated picture strips, the second being photo stories in the style of girls' romance mags. Interestingly, the copyright of these publications isn't attributed to Rebellion, but rather The Dan Dare Corporation. I can't find a date on the first one, though I think it's from a few years back, while the second is a bang-up-to-date 2026 release. Hey, you could spend your dosh on far worse things. Comments welcome.

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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 weekly, fortnightly, monthly, and one-shot comics 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 * CARTOON TIME * The REAL GHOSTBUSTERS * DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE * COUNT DUCKULA * RUGRATS * The TRANSFORMERS * DEATH'S HEAD * THUNDERCATS * GALAXY RANGERS * DRAGON'S CLAWS * SINDY * ACTION MAN * MARVEL MASTERWORKS * The TROLLS * LOADED * INFERNO * WARHAMMER * ROSE BLACK

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