Way back in September 1974, The Osmonds and Carl Douglas were topping the charts, but I was feeling sorry for myself as I was on my sixth week of being stuck at home as a 5 year old with little to do and I was so bored! This is in the days before we had all day TV let alone 24 hour! Now those reading … Continue reading Kung Fu Fighting
If there is one person I associate with Christmas, it is Ian Kennedy. With the amount of annual covers, internal comic art and comic covers, it would not be Christmas without Ian’s work to love and admire. So without further ado, I present to you a small selection of Ian Kennedy’s work that we could call his Winter collection. These are presented in publication order … Continue reading Have Yourself a very Kennedy Christmas
It’s has been over a week since I said that I would start this review and I have surprised myself by how much I have written on each issue so far and been surprised by how much there is to the early issues, but D C Thomson were past masters in creating a comic that would hit the ground running and establish itself with surprising … Continue reading Warlord 003 dated 12th October 1974
Every year, I spend at least two minutes silent as it is a small price to pay in remembering the fallen. So when I found this letter in issue 3 of Warlord from 1974 on Remembrance Sunday, I knew that I had to publish it. And in case you are wondering where the title for this article came from, then I suggest you watch the … Continue reading A Pittance of Time
Well, that first set of articles seemed to go well, so as it seems to be something you all like, I may as well continue on in the way that I intend to go on. I intend to feature the cover, any art of interest to myself, any stories that either come to an end or are just beginning and any features that are not … Continue reading Warlord 002 dated 5th October 1974
After the huge hit rate my posts on Warlord have generated, it seems rather apt that I let you know about some of the feedback that I have received on social media about my project to go through each and every issue of Warlord. First up we have feedback from Lew Stringer, who pointed out that Warlord was not the first single genre comic. Here … Continue reading Swords Of A Thousand Men
I don’t remember reading this when it first came out, but I know that I must have as any reading material that came into our house was fair game for all five of us. I do remember seeing that lurid yellow and red cover and thinking “I don’t know what it is but I want it!” Warlord, in itself, was a departure from the norm … Continue reading Warlord 001 dated 28th September 1974
Over on Comics UK, we love to talk about comics and one of my friends has been enthusing about Battle. And in his musings about Battle, he added a gentle little barb to goad me into a little more action. Geoff knows that I am a big Warlord fan and set me the task of talking about Warlord in the way that he has spoken … Continue reading In Like Flint
Some days it is just so hard to get going, but there are other days when good things just fall into your lap and today was one of those days when good things just kept falling. I had mentioned that my next Comic Creator Spotlight article on Down The Tubes was going to be about Gordon Livingstone and I would be looking at his body … Continue reading It’s A Hard Life
The Winter Warriors by the late David Gemmell is part of one of my favourite group of Fantasy books. It may be heresy to many, but I am not a fan of Tolkien, I struggle with Peake and I just about get by with Moorcock, but Gemmell’s stuff just hits the spot for me. And the quote that I have taken from the book that … Continue reading May All Your Dreams But One Come True
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