Time to slap iron!

  I thought "Show off some of the British Silver age Western comics you have" so here you go

Fawcett reprints in b&w

Reprints strips from ALI agency in Spain

Published by Donald F. Peters and distributed by Miller

Reprints Charlton comic b&w

L. Miller 1954-1960 #2-65 art by John Wheeler

1954-1959 Colin Andrews art

1955-1959 issue 1 art by Tom Barling issues 2-65 Terry Patrick

Almost Time To Check The Collection

 New acquisitions for the collection. In a few weeks I might do a quick view of the Swan albums collection since the last look was...8 years ago?

1952

1953

Black Tower Comics & Books

 

https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/hoopercomicsuk/

The Falcon: Wanted! Radio Fun Annual 1951

 

Six New Acquisitions

  The new annuals are from the end tail of the Golden Age of British comics are from the beginning and then the tail end of the Silver age.

Circa 1948 so in the British Golden Age, Tom Puss Tales is not British! Tom Puss (Tom Poes in Dutch) is a Dutch comic strip, created by Marten Toonder. Together with Hans G. Kresse's Eric de Noorman and Pieter Kuhn's Kapitein Rob it is regarded as the Big Three of Dutch comics. Value of this book varies from £12.50 to £50

Tuck's Annual has no date but was given as a present in "Xmas 1950" so would have been printed that year.

The others all have the date on their covers.

 With postage this lot cost £11.00 because they are not the "big money books".

The Ultimate British Gold Collection and its Contents

  Some people outside of the UK and Europe (mainly the United States) have a problem understanding what A4 size is. Well here is a modern Marvel comic atop an A4 book. So it is larger than "Legal" size I believe.

"How many pages?" Over 400 so as this photo of the spine shows it is a thick book -about an inch thi9ck actually!

And a few interior shots -sorry no scanner and my camera is so old they call it "digital"! not "Digi"!

The Ultimate British Golden Age Collection

A4
Paperback
B&W
405 pages

Price: £25.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-ultimate-british-comics-gold-collection/paperback/product-22041282.html

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 omic intellectual dinosaur! Yipes!

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

The next issue of Comic Bits

   I had someone ask when the next issue of Comic Bits would be out as they enjoyed issues 1 and 2.

I explained that there would not be an issue no. 3.  

Don't get me wrong as I have enough material to keep the mag going for at least 10 issues full of interviews, comic strip pages and much more. As I have almost a full run of Swan annuals I have found characters never before mentioned (not that Swan gets mentioned much anyway) and from other publishers I have also made some finds.

So why no third issue? Well, enough people have seen the ads, etc for issue 1 and 2 and both sold 2 copies each. Yes, two copies of each issue.  

That should not have surprised me since it appears that no one is really interested in this period of comics (actually I should write "periods" as the mag dealt with Platinum, Golden and start of the silver age).  The Black Tower Gold collections are six issues featuring some of the most sought after (we were led to believe) Golden Age British comic strips -one volume reproduced Back From the Dead and if you can find a copy of the original...you could not afford it!

All six volumes, appearing from 2012-2014, have each sold...zero copies. Zero copies. The bumper book which contains all six issues has sold 4 issues since 2013. 

Posts on the Face Book page rarely get a reaction and this blog...well, it's almost as though I am publishing for myself but all 98 posts have received 9,517 views.  So why is no one commenting? Asking questions or buying books?

The books are all priced low -I really do not get much from a sale due to this. Any books ordered are printed and mailed from the region ordered so no expensive international postage rates. It could not be easier.

So there are no more Comic Bits (issues 3 and 4 were almost completed when I cancelled them) so no discoveries ...or anything really. As for more volumes of the Gold Collection: no. it takes months of work to scan and clean and often resize or repair poor lettering and I am not getting any younger and my time is important.

A Selection

Tough Guy...Goin' Fishing!

The Ultimate British Comics Gold Collection

 

A4
Paperback
B&W
405 pages

Price: £25.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-ultimate-british-comics-gold-collection/paperback/product-22041282.html

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 HartTNT TomElectrogirl Wonderman The Phantom RaiderCaptain Comet Acro MaidPhantom MaidDene VernonThe Iron BoyThe Boy FishProfessor AtomThe TornadoPowermanWonder BoySlicksureMasterman Dane JerrusAlfieTiny TodMaxwell The Mighty Back From The DeadZeno At The Earth's CoreColonel MastiffAlly SloperSuper InjunSuper Porker  (oo-er, no, Madam, ooh),Tiger ManKing Of The CloudsCaptain 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 omic 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!

Black Tower Gold Vol 6

 

A4
Paperback
B&W
35 pages

Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/black-tower-gold-6/paperback/product-16249586.html

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!