Super Stooge by Banger. Need I say More!

Now, if you see these pages offered as scans from "scanner unknown" on certain sites and bottom page credit is removed....well, you KNOW.

New Funnies Album 1955  from Gerald Swan

Ultimate British Golden Age Collection...Cover Change

If you are thinking of buying the 400+pp collection there will be a new cover.  If you want the current cover it will remain until TUESDAY of next wee.  After that it changes to this...

Black Tower Comics -The Ultimate British Comics Gold Collection

 

 

Publisher Terry Hooper-Scharf (Ed.)/Black Tower Books UK

A4

Pages 405

Perfect-bound Paperback

Black & white

Weight 1.12 kg

Dimensions (centimetres) 20.98 wide x 29.69 tall 

Price: £25.00

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Combining volumes 1-6 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 and MANY others! 

 

Reader review:  

By ben dilworth

12-Jun-2014 

 

"A wonderful read - nothing like it ! Examples of comic strips from the Golden Age of British comics. If they weren't here, many of them would be gone forever - so thanks for the memories, Terry - and I hope that you've got a few more examples of these old classics up your sleeve. Keep the faith."

Dene Vernon: Ghost Investigator!

... Though that job description was flexible.

Dene Vernon:The Thing Below

W -Terry Hooper-Scharf   A -Gavin Stuart Ross

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53 Pages

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Dene Vernon the first UK comic book investigator of the supernatural faces his greatest challenge as he investigates and confronts The Thing Below London. Classic British horror set in the ruins of blitzed London docks in 1949.

Dene Vernon was one of those unique characters from the Gerald Swan "Swan Comics" -created and drawn by Jock McCail.  Swan seemed to specialise, whether he realised it or not, in characters steeped in the supernatural -Krakos The Egyptian being one of the others.  Stories of the true ghost hunters -some VERY scary- used to make newspaper news in the old days.  Harry Price, Elliott O'Donnell and a selected few others were well know household names.   Vernon is of that ilk.

In his time he dealt with supernatural curses, horrifying hauntings and, later when the whole thing exploded into the public consciousness, flying saucers.

In 1996 I wrote a script that was intended for D. C. Thomson (let's not go there)  and then Egmont showed interest...and decided it didn't want to do comics -a policy it has stuck to in the UK.  So, ITV thought it might make a good TV series....deregulation of TV killed that.  The BBC....well, if they ever followed through on anything it was a miracle.

Gavin Stuart Ross had been in touch with me a long time before and eventually drew the Chung Ling Soo series of Victorian mystery comics (there is a collection you know).  I thought, perhaps, if I begged, Gavin might give Dene Vernon a try.  He did and so Dene Vernon: The Thing Below came into being.  Finally!

It has been said many times that "horror is best in black and white" and that is true.  I cherish my old Charlton horror/ghost comics and German Spuk Geschichten and Gespenster Geschichten but black and white horror is king.

Incidentally, though it does not mean you will have to buy it as all BTCG books are stand alone, in The Green Skies you will learn exactly why Vernon is recovering and "not quite the same" any more.  That's a teaser.

But Dene Vernon: The Thing Below is just for you horror fans -it even has a slight Quatermass feel to it. Don't believe me?  Buy a copy and see!

Black Tower Comics: Krakos -Sands Of Terror!

Terry Hooper-Scharf

A4

64 pages

black & white

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Created by William A. Ward for Swan Comics in the 1940s, Krakos was one of Ward’s supernatural anti-hero types. 

Used, with Swan’s permission, in Black Tower Adventure strips in the 1980s/1990s, this is the character’s first solo outing.

But will Krakos fulfill the Goddess Isis’ dream and become the new pharaoh of a New Egyptian Kingdom that will encompass all of the Middle East?

Did anyone actually ask Krakos?

The book contains information on Ward and his work plus sample pages rescued after 60 years of neglect!

The second of the Black Tower new line, published in July, 2010...when the Middle East was 'slightly' more predictable!

Black Tower Comics: THE BAT TRIUMPHANT!

The Bat Triumphant!

Terry Hooper-Scharf

A4

60 pages

black & white

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During the 1930s, The Bat sets about modernising the backward Duchy of Stahl, over which his dynasty has ruled since 1410 A.D..

In 1941, with the German war machine threatening Europe,  The Bat is  involved in experiments with the infamous Count Cogliostro. One of these experiments involves suspended animation and The Bat decides that  he will be the test subject. When he wakes,The Bat finds that not days have gone by but 51 years!

Worse, his kingdom is in ruins and an enclave of of Stahlias greatest historical enemy -Kamora. The Bat tries politics to win back his homeland and when that fails he decides to fight for it!

However, he is unaware that some old, and new, enemies are lying in wait to stop him and all of them want one thing: The Bat dead!

Originally a back up strip in Black Tower Adventure in 1994,The Bat proved very popular as an anti-hero. The story was never completed. It is now. New edition -added art pages

The Bat Triumphant! was published as a comic album in July 2010 and was the first of the new look Black Tower range.

Can You Resist Black Tower Comics & Books: THE IRON WARRIOR COLLECTION

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Ben R. Dilworth & Terry Hooper-Scharf
A4
Black and white
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49 Pages

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In the 1940s, Rodney Dearth and his exploratory fighting machine known as the Iron Warrior left Africa to travel to South America in search of lost explorer Percy Fawcett. Crocodiles, giant snakes, hostile natives and..Big Bong -the terror of the Amazon!

This collection presents a 1940s William A. Ward strip, Ben R. Dilworth's Big Bong, Amazon Adventure and a couple special pages, and Terry Hooper-Scharf's Black Tower Adventure strip The Iron Warrior: Jungle Terror plus text features!