(fun) and Keith Law and Mike Dorey’s Scorpio (snorepio) making up the numbers.WEAK13 is a British grunge / metal / industrial act, founded in 1999 by Nick J.Townsend in Kidderminster, United Kingdom.

– ‘a sinister organisation with insane objectives’), but by the summer of 1983 there was a higher ratio of non-photographic stories in Eagle, with Alan Hebden and Jose Ortiz’s The Fifth Horseman (good), Fred Baker and Rex Archer’s Crowe Street Comp. There’s further photo-camp in regulars Doomlord (evil brother Zom arrives on Earth), and Manix (chasing agents of S.M.O.G. He probably wasn’t expecting to discover one of the Chuckle Brothers inside. WWII Flight-Lieutenant Hary Beckett was the star, waking in occupied France after the crash of his bomber and infiltrating the mysterious Nazi House of Correction. If hotting up is what readers were after, then the title of Eagle’s brand new serial House of Correction held some promise. The story itself in this week’s issue is a bit slow – essentially following Dan and his crew on a Lunar training exercise – but the cliffhanger suggests that things are going to hot up a bit in next week’s episode. It’s truly lovely work, for me reminiscent of Herge's Tintin: On a marche sur la lune, and continues on a double-page spread inside.

On this day, 11 June 1983 … More Ian Kennedy gorgeousness here – this cover just one of the many stunning Dan Dare painted covers that he produced for Eagle from February to October 1983, worth 22p a week in themselves. Please follow me or say hello on Twitter ( GNFAR and OPITN) or Facebook. In 2016 I started to write ‘On This Day’ posts, looking in detail at particular issues that bore the cover date of the day of the blog post (the cover date was usually the day that a comic went off-sale rather than the day it was published). For me and for so many others of my generation, these comics were our literature, our social media and our companions when the telly was switched off – I’m sure that they must have had some sort of impact on how we understood and related to the world both then and today.Īt first I was writing mainly about my own experiences and memories of reading comics. This is mostly a nostalgic appreciation of wonderful storytelling, art and design, but I’m also searching for something more significant. Over time, I will try to index as many of the issues, stories, characters and their talented creators as I am able. Since then I have occasionally looked at comics published by other houses (such as DC Thomson) but the focus remains mainly on IPC.

My first post on the blog was posted on 31 August 2015 and for the first 28 months I focused solely on comics published by IPC. I am a collector of comics published in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s and this blog collects my memories of being a reader of these comics as a child, my observations as a collector today and an attempt to catalogue the comics from a fan’s perspective.

Doomlord by Alan Grant