Black Tower Gold - British Golden Age Comics Collected Into Single Volumes plus!

  Going by what people are asking now IF you can find the comics reprinted in these collections, just the comics in the first volume would cost you around  £200/.$210.  The complete collection -for which in a number of instances there are absolutely no copies being sold-  would cost you around £500+

Which means you get some rare gems to see for more than cut price!

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For the first time in 60 years some of the lost gems of the British Golden Age of Comics are reprinted!

Scanned and cleaned to the best standard possible -see The Phantom Raider, Ace Hart, Secrets Of The Super Sargasso Sea, Phantom Maid, Electrogirl, Skybolt Kid, Wonder Boy, Dene Vernon, Professor Atom and many, many others!

Its fun and action all the way -The British Golden Age shines through!

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The second collection of British 1940s comic strips featuring Maxwell The Mighty, Slicksure, Iron Boy,Alfie, Ace Hart and more.

Featuring the work of Golden Age Greats Alf Farningham and Harry Banger.

Specifically designed to feature more humour than the previous volume this should be a treat for all comic collectors.

Reprinting the full content of The Meteor and The Rocket Comics from 1948.

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This is the third volume in Black Tower Comics’ collection of Golden Age British comic strips that have not seen print for 50-60 years!

Included in this volume is a bumper crop of Ace Hart:The Atom Man strips and an article on the character.

A complete 1949 comic in Smugglers Creek; Denis Gifford’s Search For The Secret City and science fiction legend Bryan Berry’s rendition of Kid Carter -Teenage Tec! A must for all comic collectors and historians.

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The fourth volume of this series features some great finds of the lost era of British comics:

Ace Hart The Atom Man, Captain Comet -Space Ranger, TNT Tom, Clive Lynn -Space Reporter, Superstooge, "The White Gorilla", Atomic Tuffy, Cast Iron Chris, Sigord.....

and many others!

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William McCail’s 1940 classic is reprinted for the first time in 80 years.

If you are into British Golden Age comics or early comics in general this is for you.

Robert Lovett rises from the dead and finds he has some startling powers: deaths follow, as does a Scotland Yard detective determined to track down the mysterious killer!

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Yes! Now at issue 6 and bringing you more lost strips of the British Golden Age of Comics.There's a collection of strips featuring non other than TNT Tom and one of the weirdest UKGA characters -the Iron Boy.

Ever heard of Ingy Roob? Or his pet "Stretchy"? You will have if you read this issue.How about Dennis M. Readers Cat Girl?

Two other UK comics are reprinted in full, both from 1946 and the only issues ever published:Lucky Dice and The Fudge.

Black Tower -keeping UK comics history alive!

And if you want all of the above in one huge volume then....

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Combining volumes 1-6 (still available as individual issues but that works out far more expensive) of the BT Golden Age British Comics Collections (minus adverts) this is the ultimate for any Golden Age collector or historian or just plain comic lover.

Features....

*Ace Hart 

*TNT Tom 

*Electrogirl 

*Wonderman 

*The Phantom Raider 

*Captain Comet 

*Acro Maid 

*Phantom Maid 

*Dene Vernon 

*The Iron Boy 

*The Boy Fish 

*Professor Atom 

*The Tornado

 *Powerman 

*Wonder Boy 

*Slicksure  

*Masterman 

*Dane Jerrus 

*Alfie 

*Tiny Tod  

*Maxwell The Mighty 

*Back From The Dead 

*Zeno At The Earth's Core 

*Colonel Mastiff  

*Ally Sloper  

*Super Injun  

*Super Porker  (oo-er, no, Madam, ooh), 

*Tiger Man  

*King Of The Clouds  

*Captain Comet 

and MANY others!

Plus text features defining The Ages OF British Comics (Platignum, Gold, Silver), the artist William A. Ward and more.

If you knew nothing about British comics of the Platinum, Golden and Silver Ages then once you buy and read this book you'll be a goddam comic intellectual dinosaur! Yipes!

All in that beautiful Iron Warrior cover exclusively drawn for Black Tower by that meta-gargantuoso talented Ben R. Dilworth!

I sold my family to be able to get this book out! Help me buy them back by purchasing your very own 

whizz-o copy today!

William Harry Archibald Chasemore

 

William Harry Archibald Chasemore, (1844-1905) who signed his work with a simple A.C., was a self-taught cartoonist born in Fulham, London in 1844. 

He was the pre-eminent cartoonist on Judy through its long run and his distinctive work appeared in boys’ story papers and comic papers until just past the turn of the century. 

Much of his earliest work consisted of cartoons for puzzle pages done in partnership with Charles Henry Ross.

Tom Browne

 

Tom Browne - The man who established the British comic style for the next 50 years, was born in Nottingham in 1870. He started his working life, aged 12, as a milliners errand boy and later became an apprentice lithographic printer, where he was paid one shilling (5p) a week. He left here in 1891 and, in order to make ends meet, he would moonlight by freelancing cartoons for the London comics. 

His first work appeared in James Henderson's Scraps when he was 18 years old (1888) and was entitled He Knew How To Do It. He was paid 30 shillings (£1.50) for it which equated to six months wages for one nights work! As soon as his apprenticeship was done, Tom moved down to Blackheath in London and became a major influence in the ha'penny comic revolution.

Tom modelled his work on Phil May who simplified his sketching to its bare essentials. He would strip away all the overloaded cross-hatching that was so beloved by the Victorian periodicals such as Punch, and produce just clear lines. This was perfect for the cut-priced publications with their low-quality newsprint paper, ill-etched blocks and cheap, near grey, ink.

All of Tom's early work were one-off sequences, but gradually the idea of series characters crept in. His first was Squashington Flats in Comic Cuts (1895), followed by the double-act that made his name and fame, Weary Willie and Tired Tim (1896).

These World Famous Tramps shot the circulation of Illustrated Chips up to 600,000 copies a week and Tom became very much, a man in demand. He created a pair of cyclists in the guise of Airy Alf and Bouncing Billy for The Big Budget (1897) and drew the front cover of Dan Leno's Comic Journal. For six months Tom drew five front pages of six panels each, every week. It earned him £150 pound a week but it seriously exhausted him and by 1900 Tom left comics to do other things.

He did paintings, posters and he was responsible for many of the famous Bamforths saucy seaside postcards from the early Edwardian age. He was also a very keen cyclist, as were many people from the late Victorian age, and he made several bicycle trips around the world where his drawn adventures appeared in newspapers, including the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1906. This hobby was most probably the reason while Airy Alf and Bouncing Billy were always seen on this mode of transport in their early adventures. 

Sadly, in 1910, Browne underwent an internal operation and tragically died soon afterwards at the early age of just 39.

A brief overview of his work is given here:-

Comic Cuts - Squashington Flats (1895), Billy Buster The Steam Engine (1896), Don Quixote de Tintogs (1898)
Illustrated Chips - Weary Willie & Tired Tim (1896), The Rajah (1897), Little Willy And Tiny Tim (1898)
Big Budget - Airy Alf & Bouncing Billy(1897), Wackington School(1897)
Comic Home Journal - Lanky Larry & Bloated Bill (1897)
Dan Leno's Comic Journal - Dan Leno (1898)
Halfpenny Comic - Mr Stanley Deadstone & Co. (1898)
Funny Wonder - Plumduff Island (1899)

Headline Henderson -Short and Sweet

 Reprinted by G Swan 1954

Black Whip - Gang-Buister!

 The Rover number 38  31st October 1931

Tom Browne - Lots of Art to Treat Your Eyes With!

 Mention Tom Browne to most people with an interest in British comics these days and they will have no idea who you mean and yet he was the super star of comic sets (strips) of his day and I have covered his career elsewhere over the years.

  For over a century his style was copied and here I present just a fun bundle of his illustrations -post cards, article illustrations, etc. Feast your eyes on his work and remember the name ...Tom Browne!