Ranger number 52 6th February, 1932
Monday, 27 January 2025
Sunday, 26 January 2025
Black Tower Gold - British Golden Age Comics Collected
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!
Jos Walker and Sandy's Steam Man
Sandy's Steam Man was by Joseph "Jos" Walker, of whom we have absolutely no biographical information. He was a very competent artist and contributed to many Amalgamated Press publications including the early issues of Knockout.
From 1939-45 only Walker reprints were to be seen. As we have no idea as to his age or private life we can only assume that he died in the early 1940s -whether on active service or not is unknown.
Sandy's Steam Man was originally billed as The Steam Man On Treasure Island when it started as a two page serial in Knockout no. 1, dated 4th March, 1939 -76 years ago. "Sandy" was the old Scots engineer who puffed on his pipe (oo-er) but when the good ship "Shamrock" got wrecked on a reef the adventures started!
I apologise but I have no idea which issue this came from ((no. 2?) as I lost the notes long ago. I do have scans so one day I'll sort that out.
Jos Walker
(? - 1942, UK) United Kingdom
Little is known about British comic artist Josiah Walker. In the 1920s, Walker did sport cartoons for Football and Sports Favourite, Sports Budget and Sport and Adventure. He also contributed to The Boy's Friend (1926-27) and to story papers like Bullseye, Champion, Thiller, Detective Weekly and Chums. Other known credits are 'Harry Weldon' in Golden Penny (1926) and film adaptations for Film Picture Stories (1934-35). For Film Fun, he made features like 'James Cagney' and 'Buck Jones'.
Walker was one of the first to draw the comic version of pulp-detective 'Sexton Blake'. This character, a Sherlock Holmes look-alike, was created by writer Hal Meredith, pseudonym of Harry Blyth, who first came up with a 'Sexton Blake' story in 1893. Unfortunately, Blyth died before Sexton Blake achieved his huge popularity, and in the course of time, his adventures were written by over 175 authors, and appeared in numerous magazines, including The Halfpenny Marvel, Union Jack, Boys' Friend Library, Penny Popular, The Sexton Blake Library, Pilot and the London Evening Standard.
On March 4, 1939, the first 'Sexton Blake' comic appeared in the first issue of Knockout. It was written by Edward Holmes and drawn by Jos Walker. During most of the 1940s, however, the artwork was done by Alfred Taylor, and after that, many different artists, such as Eric Parker, Robert MacGillivray, Reginald Heade, Frank Pashley, Graham Coton, George Parlett and William Bryce Hamilton have brought Sexton Blake to life.
Jos Walker was also a well-known sports cartoonist. Up until the Second World War he drew the cover for Tottenham Hotspur weekly programme, plus West Ham speedway covers and regularly contributed a cartoon for the Evening News. He died in 1942 while in his fifties.
From 1939-45 only Walker reprints were to be seen. As we have no idea as to his age or private life we can only assume that he died in the early 1940s -whether on active service or not is unknown.
Sandy's Steam Man was originally billed as The Steam Man On Treasure Island when it started as a two page serial in Knockout no. 1, dated 4th March, 1939 -76 years ago. "Sandy" was the old Scots engineer who puffed on his pipe (oo-er) but when the good ship "Shamrock" got wrecked on a reef the adventures started!
I apologise but I have no idea which issue this came from ((no. 2?) as I lost the notes long ago. I do have scans so one day I'll sort that out.
Jos Walker
(? - 1942, UK) United Kingdom
Little is known about British comic artist Josiah Walker. In the 1920s, Walker did sport cartoons for Football and Sports Favourite, Sports Budget and Sport and Adventure. He also contributed to The Boy's Friend (1926-27) and to story papers like Bullseye, Champion, Thiller, Detective Weekly and Chums. Other known credits are 'Harry Weldon' in Golden Penny (1926) and film adaptations for Film Picture Stories (1934-35). For Film Fun, he made features like 'James Cagney' and 'Buck Jones'.
Walker was one of the first to draw the comic version of pulp-detective 'Sexton Blake'. This character, a Sherlock Holmes look-alike, was created by writer Hal Meredith, pseudonym of Harry Blyth, who first came up with a 'Sexton Blake' story in 1893. Unfortunately, Blyth died before Sexton Blake achieved his huge popularity, and in the course of time, his adventures were written by over 175 authors, and appeared in numerous magazines, including The Halfpenny Marvel, Union Jack, Boys' Friend Library, Penny Popular, The Sexton Blake Library, Pilot and the London Evening Standard.
On March 4, 1939, the first 'Sexton Blake' comic appeared in the first issue of Knockout. It was written by Edward Holmes and drawn by Jos Walker. During most of the 1940s, however, the artwork was done by Alfred Taylor, and after that, many different artists, such as Eric Parker, Robert MacGillivray, Reginald Heade, Frank Pashley, Graham Coton, George Parlett and William Bryce Hamilton have brought Sexton Blake to life.
Jos Walker was also a well-known sports cartoonist. Up until the Second World War he drew the cover for Tottenham Hotspur weekly programme, plus West Ham speedway covers and regularly contributed a cartoon for the Evening News. He died in 1942 while in his fifties.
Saturday, 25 January 2025
The Hand of the Mystery Man [Black Whip]
Here is a treat: The Hand of the Mystery Man starring Black Whip in a story from The Ranger number 50 of volume 3, 23rd January, 1932 in a story by John J. Garbutt.
I have more of these text stories if anyone is interested.
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