CALLING 'MY OLD COMICS' BLOG...

Hope all you regulars will forgive me for a second while I try and assist JP of MY OLD COMICS blog, who's having trouble getting a backdrop that doesn't fill the entire screen.  Here you go, JP - try this.  Have your blog's name over the image, as well as the tagline.  The image will be sharper of course, if you can crop your own copy of it to look like the one above.  If not, enlarge the above one to its fullest size before copying.

2000 A.D. PROG 300 COVER...

Images copyright REBELLION

I've been digging in the back of a cupboard over the last few days, trying to find whatever copies of 2000 A.D. I still have (as you'll know if you've read the last few posts), and this is another one.  Though I wasn't buying the comic regularly at this point, I still picked up the occasional free gift ish, like Prog 300 above.  I got it as much for the first part of the mini-reprint of Prog 1 as I did for the badge.  In fact, I purchased two copies so I could cut out the reprint, and also bought single copies of the next three numbers in order to complete the collectors' item Prog.

I no longer have the next three issues, as I disposed of them after removing the reprint pages, so I can't show them here.  I still have the mini-comic tucked away somewhere, but all you 2000 A.D. fans surely know what that looks like already, so there's no need for me to go and dig it out to show you.  Besides, you can see the front and back cover below.  And yes, I've got the full-size first issue as well - ain't I lucky?  Nope, it's not for sale.

BABE Of The DAY - VICTORIA VETRI...

VICTORIA VETRI gives

me that ol' "come hither" look -

showing just what kind of burds

guys tend to attract when they're

as handsome as I am.  Guess I

 was just born lucky, eh?

2000 A.D. COVER (& IMAGE) GALLERY - PART THREE...

Images copyright REBELLION

Ready for part three?  Well, ready or not, here it comes.  The final lot of 2000 A.D. covers from 1979, bought back in the day by my good self.  Think I'll have to sit down and read them all again one day, when I have time.  Funny that the first one of this run I bought (Prog 119) had JAMES BOND on the cover, and the last one (127) also gives him a mention.  It's possible I bought some of the following issues after the merger with TORNADO, but if I did, I never kept them.  (I just didn't like the comic's return to cheaper printing.)

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Below, is this the greatest JUDGE DREDD story ever written?   It's certainly got to be one of them, right up near the top.  Hopefully, REBELLION won't mind me posting the full story, but it's one with a powerful message that everyone should read. Click on the images to enlarge, then click again for optimum size.  Have your hankies at the ready - this one will really move you!

Did you spot that great bit of visual humour?  "A heavy guard on the door", with a clearly overweight judge filling the role.  I can't help but wonder if this was indicated in JOHN HOWARD's script, or was it JOHN COOPER's idea?  Nicely done though.

  

The above-mentioned 'SHAKY' KANE would eventually draw for IPC

2000 A.D. COVER (& IMAGE) GALLERY - PART TWO...

Images copyright REBELLION

As promised, here's the second part of a gallery of 2000 A.D. covers from way back in 1979.  I've included the JUDGE DREDD 'splash' pages because they're drawn by BRIAN BOLLAND and therefore worth a look.  DAVE GIBBONS' DAN DARE pages are also worth a look, but I've got to set limits somewhere or we'd never get on to the next post.  Anyway, better get started if we want to see the next lot of covers and images - coming soon.

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I assume that the above-mentioned KEVIN SUTHERLAND is the very same one
 who would later draw for The BEANO and 2000 A.D. itself.  Can anyone confirm?

2000 A.D. COVER (& IMAGE) GALLERY - PART ONE...

Images copyright REBELLION

In a previous post on 2000 A.D., I mentioned that I collected a short run of the comic back in 1979.  Having now checked, it was a mere 9 issues in total, from Prog 119 to 127, which happened to be the first merged issue with TORNADO.  So I thought I'd give you a look at the first of those 9 issues, followed in an upcoming post of the remainder of the 9 ish run.  Interested?  Good!

I bought this issue in R.S. McColl's in my local Town Centre, and looking at this cover now, I'm instantly returned in memory to the interior of a shop that vacated the premises only 2 or three years later.  It was ROGER MOORE's appearance as BOND in the soon to be released MOONRAKER that attracted my attention, and if not for him, it's unlikely I'd have given the comic a second glance.

It's funny how our decisions are influenced on such seemingly inconsequential things.  Back then, the weekly was still unashamedly a comic for boys, and looking at the contents now, it's actually not a bad little package.  It's just a shame that it was eventually hijacked by a far older readership, and transformed into a glossy magazine for 'adults'.  There's no equivalent of 2000 A.D. for kids today, and that's quite a sad situation when you think about it.

Ah, 1979.  To me, it seems like only a few short years ago, not the nigh-40 year gulf that it actually is.  Of course, if you weren't even born then, it must seem like prehistoric times.

  

1990 was 11 years in the future in 1979 - now it's 27 years in the past

And here's the booklet pages the 'right way up' to enable you to read them properly without having to turn your computer screen on its side.  Click to enlarge, then click again for optimum size.

BABE Of The DAY - EMILY PROCTER...

Dunno who told EMILY PROCTER

her gloves match her outfit, but she's been

misinformed.  I was going to say her top fits

like a glove, but you'd maybe think I was

suggesting she's got five nipples.