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The End.There's only one thing certain in life and that's by accident or design nothing lasts forever. This is my final blog post here and...
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Comic Oddities: CANDY (1967)The last in my occasional series of Comic Oddities brings us to the weirdest one ever. I t's hard to believe that the company...
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My first DANDY (1964)I've mentioned before that the very first comic strips I saw were a few Noddy's Tall Books editions ( see here ) and one issue of Yogi...
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On Reflection...On my other blog, a look back at what 2019 meant to me: http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.com/2019/12/reflecting-on-2019.html...
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Preview: New Year BEANO for 2020Here's the cover to look out for of Beano No.4016 which will be in the shops on Tuesday 31st December . Yes, a day earlier...
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My top five classic comics recommendations of 2019This year has once again seen a load of books reprinting classic British comic strips of the past. Frankly, they've all been...
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THIRD WORLD WAR arrives on January 9thThe next collection from the Treasury of British Comics will be Third World War , the series that ran in Crisis...
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Out Now: COMMANDO Nos.5291 to 5294This has been a great year for Commando comics under the editorship of Georgia Battle. The surprise revivals of classic D.C. Thomson...
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New for 2020: REJECTEDA New Year is coming so what better than a new comic? Rejected is a compilation of stories written by Baden James Mellonie and...
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Review: THE BEANO BOOK 1956 (Facsimile)Cover art by James Crighton. One of the books I treated myself to for Christmas was this facsimile of The Beano Book...
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The Christmas CHIPS (1939)Here's my final Christmas choice for this season, and indeed forever, as Blimey! will end on December 31st so there'll be no...
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The Christmas CHEEKY (1979)If this issue's cover had a soundtrack it'd be the "Hyak, hyak, hyak" sound of Sid James laughing. As they say, "Things were different in...
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The Christmas BEANO (1971)As you can tell from the name written above the logo, I was having The Beano reserved for me at the local newsagents every week...
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The Christmas PHOENIX (2019)Back in the 1930s it was the tradition for comics to have a Christmas "double number" and be twice as thick because they were...
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A Seasonal Selection of favourite Annual CoversWe always associate comic annuals with Christmas Day because, traditionally, that's when we received them. In reality of course...
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Preview: Next week's BEANOAfter its traditional break of a few weeks while the Christmas edition was on the stands, the Beano returns to normal weekly...
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The Christmas SCORCHER (1973)Adventure comics didn't always bother with Christmas episodes but this issue of Scorcher made the effort for a few of...
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The Christmas SPARKY (1972)We've arrived at the early 1970s. Flared trousers are in, as are chopper bikes, clackers can't be far off, and this issue of Sparky...
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The Christmas... THOR AND THE X-MEN? (1983)When is a Christmas comic not a Christmas comic? When it's a Marvel UK comic reprinting stories out of season I guess. The...
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The Christmas MERRY MAKER (1947)I mentioned before that the UK had a lot on independent comics after the war, and this was one of them. The Merry Maker was a...
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Ken Reid's CentenaryToday marks the 100th anniversary of Ken Reid's birth. Sadly he passed away in the 1980s but his superb darkly...
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The Christmas TAMMY (1971)Tammy was launched in early 1971 so this was its first Christmas issue. The comic was the first of a new style of IPC comics that...
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The Christmas EAGLE (1964)There's not a lot of festive material in this issue of Eagle for 1964 but I've found a bit to show you. Adventure comics mostly avoided...
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The Christmas HOOT (1985)Hoot was a D.C. Thomson comic that had a brief run of just 53 weekly issues before merging into The Dandy . At 16 pages...
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The Christmas WHOOPEE! (1980)Beginning this year's look back at Christmas comics of the past and to kick off here's a few pages from the issue of Whoopee! that...
