Nick Jolly - The Flying Highwayman

 Art by Ron Smith.

 

Space Ranger

An advertisement from 1980 with art by Ron Smith. It's interesting to note that he's made no attempt to beef up the Rom character. I seem to remember the toy looked particularly unimpressive and weedy. Some of you may remember the long-running Rom: Spaceknight comic from Marvel in the US?

 

 

Judge Dredd

Bold cover art by Ron Smith circa November 1990.

Invasion Target Earth

Ron Smith illustrates this tale from The Hotspur, February 2nd 1957.

Rover

Cover by Ron Smith.

Davy Crockett

Art by Ron Smith. The Hotspur annual 1973. I picked this one mainly because I love the way RS rendered the bear in frame one.  I've stripped the colour in the last frame to give a better view of the line-work.

The Hotspur

Cover art by Ron Smith.

I was quite taken aback when I originally saw this cover. The Union Jack Jackson I knew had 'originally' appeared in Warlord in the mid 1970s. Nothing like recycling an old character for a new generation-eh?

The Hotspur annual 1976

Ron Smith provides a cover depicting Nick Jolly, an 18th century highwayman, who's transported into the 20th century by an 'amazing Time Ray, which had also transformed his trusty mare, Bess, into a jet-propelled horse of steel'. Apparently....

No, this isn't the original art. For some reason I thought it'd be interesting to see it sans text, so I did a little PShop jiggery-pokery. Yep, I don't get out much.....