Like the ‘Sid’s Snake’ cartoonist, Mike Lacey, Stephen was born and grew up in Southend-On-Sea, Essex. Early influences include Asterix The Gaul, Andy Capp and IPC humour comics throughout the ’70’s. A budding cartoonist from the age of 5, he eventually won the ‘Daily Star Young Cartoonist Of The Year’ in 1985. It opened doors…
First Issue: 20th January 1979Last Issue: 26th January 1980Copyright: DC Thomson The Crunch…Is Now Crunch or to give it it’s full title ‘The Crunch’, crunched it’s way onto news-agent’s shelves dated 20th January 1979 with it’s humble claim, ‘The sensational new paper with the most dynamic bunch of stories ever!’ It’s first issue free gift…
First Issue: 18th January 1975Last Issue: 11th September 1976Copyright: DC Thomson ‘Cracker’ comic ran for 87 issues before it merged with ‘Topper’ comic. Strips in the first issue included ‘Young Foo’, ‘Simple Spyman’, ‘Big-Head Branny’, ‘Spookie Cookie’, ‘Scrapper’, ‘Castaways On Planet Doom’, ‘Billy The Kid’, ‘Hector The Collector’, ‘Skooldaze’, ‘The Headhunters’, ‘Spookum Skool’, ‘Joe Soap’,…
First Issue: 20th February 1971Last Issue: 24th March 1972Copyright: Polystyle Absolutely nothing to do with Carol Vorderman, Richard Whiteley or even Susie Dent! Countdown, the comic, was hosted on the front cover by Doctor Who (John Pertwee), Countdown arrived on our shelves dated 20th February 1971. With the free gift of a “Giant Spacefact Wall Chart…
First Issue: July 1961Last Issue: N/ACopyright: DC Thomson Commando Comics is the popular term for the comic library series which started out as ‘Commando War Stories in Pictures’ and changed to ‘Commando For Action and Adventure’ in September 1993. The comics have been continuously published by DC Thomson since 1961. Featuring war picture stories from…
First Issue: 30th December 1899Last Issue: 21st January 1928Copyright: Henderson/Amalgamated Press Starting life as ‘Pictorial Comic Life’, the comic was given a new lease of life 30th December 1899 when it became simply ‘Comic Life’. Stories in Comic Life included ‘Burglar Bertie’ – George Davey, ‘Good knight Gilbert’ – Roy Wilson, ‘The Merry Boys of…
First Issue: 20th September 1946Last Issue: 17th October 1958Copyright: Amalgamated Press Comet comic ran for 580 issues before joining with Tiger comic in 1958. During its lifespan, Comet stories included ‘Buffalo Bill’, ‘Thunderbolt Jackson’, ‘Dick Barton’, ‘Strongbow the Mighty’, ‘Kit Carson’ ‘Jet Ace Logan’, and ‘Claude Duval’.
First Issue: 10th January 1914Last Issue: 1st December 1923Copyright: Amalgamated Press The 8 paged tabloid sized Chuckles comic appeared in early January 1914. Contributors to the first issue were Tom Wilkinson, H. O’Neil and W. Radford. Chuckles became a nursery comic in 1919 before merging with Jungle Jinks comic in 1923. ‘Chuckles’ Comic Issue Number…
First Issue: 26th July 1890Last Issue: 12th September 1953Copyright: Amalgamated Press Called Illustrated Chips but most often referred to as Chips as it changed its name to that title in September 1952. Chips made its first appearance in July 1890 and ran until 1953 making it one of the world’s longest running comics along with…
First Issue: 1st December 1866Last Issue: 1950sCopyright: Macintosh Reverend John Erskine Clarke Chatterbox was a famous children’s story paper first published in 1866 by Reverend John Erskine Clarke. Clarke wanted to produce a paper that would offer an alternative to the popular ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ of the time. Clarke had also produced a paper for younger…
