First Issue: 21st January 1967Last Issue: 7th September 1968Copyright: Odhams Spider-Man In the 1960s, publishers Odhams obtained the rights to reprint Marvel superhero characters in their five ‘Power’ comics which were ‘Pow!’, ‘Wham!’, ‘Fantastic’, ‘Terrific’ and ‘Smash!’ ‘Pow!’ comic ran for 86 issues before joining Smash! comic on 14th September 1968 with the newly titled…
First Issue: 21st April 1956Last Issue: 24th November 1956Copyright: News of the World Flash Gordon The first issue of Rocket included Captain Falcon, Escape from Earth, John Storm, Why I am Editing, The Jungle of Space, Flash Gordon, Johnny Hazard, Brick Bradford, St. Rockets, Earthward Bound, News of Other Worlds, Your Guide to Guided Missiles…
First Issue: 28th May 1960Last Issue: 4th January 2000Copyright: IPC Magazines Andy Capp The Daily Mirror newspaper strip character, Andy Capp, was the creation of Reg Smythe. When ‘The Mirror Group’ took over ‘Amalgamated Press’ a new comic was created. The new comic was named after the main protagonist, the son of Andy Capp, ‘Buster’….
First Issue: 23rd January 1965Last Issue: 16th July 1977Copyright: DC Thomson ‘The Moonsters’ by Bill Ritchie was the story of Penny and Peter Pleasant who were visiting a space travel show when Peter’s sticky fingers led to a space ship taking off with Peter and Penny inside. The back page of Issue two of saw…
First Issue: 17th February 1953Last Issue: 15th September 1990Copyright: DC Thomson First issue of ‘The Topper’ introduced ‘Mickey the Monkey’. The cheerful little monkey was the all colour star of the front cover. With the asistance of his friend ‘Polly’ the parrot, Mickey went on to make 1074 front cover appearances before settling down inside…
First Issue: 9th March 1974Last Issue: 30th March 1985Copyright: IPC Magazines Whoopee issue number one appeared on 9th March 1974 and included a free gift of a ‘ Super Squirt Ring’. Stories in the first issue were Snap Happy, Little Miss Muffit, The Ghost Train, The Upper Crusts and the Lazy Loafers, Clobber Ernie Learner,…
Nutty Comic 21st November 1992 First Issue: 16th February 1980Last Issue: 14th September 1985Copyright: DC Thomson Who is Bananaman? Bananamana is Eric Wimp From the same publishers that brought you Desperate Dan and Denis the Menace, DC Thomson brought us Bananaman. Eric Wimp AKA Bananaman made his first appearance on the back page of the…
The Victor Comic I flew with Braddock First Issue: 25th February 1961Last Issue: 21st November 1992Copyright: DC Thomson The Victor Comic number one appeared on 25th February 1961 and lasted for 1558 issues. The first issue saw the appearance of “I Flew with Braddock” (George Bourne). “I flew with Braddock” was the story of war…
First Issue: 23rd September 1922Last Issue: 16th November 1963Copyright: DC Thomson The Wizard was one of DC Thomson’s Big 5 story papers which were launched in response to the popularity of ‘The Gem’ and ‘The Magnet’ Along with ‘The Wizard’, DC Thomson also launched ‘The Rover’, ‘The Skipper’ and ‘The Hotspur’. Stories in The Wizard…
