Legends of the Dark Knight

Art by Mike McMahon, December to February 1993. It's interesting how DC comics took a punt on such non-traditional illustrators as McMahon and Kevin O'Neil for some of their mainstream creations. Apart from Batman, I was never that keen on DC. A lot of their characters seemed a wee bit silly to me. I never 'got' Superman, he always seemed so boring. Although, I think there was a bit of a bias as I only really read Marvel UK titles as a kid. Marvel seemed part of the 'real' world whereas DC characters lived in some sort of weird 1950s limbo universe.

Original artwork

If you head over to Comic Book Auctions you'll find a treasure-trove of goodies up for offer.
(In a Spike Milligan voice) "Ah, I see you bought the whole collection? SO rich!!"

Some of the pieces on offer:

 Sexton Blake Library 736 cover art  by Eric Parker (1941).

Beryl The Peril by David Law for The Topper (1950s).

Leo Baxendale talks about Davey Law in his book, 'A Very Funny Business', ( a great book, by the way) about how DL agonised/laboured over his pages. The art 'looked' simple, but the images didn't flow out of the artist so easily. It's kinda evident when looking at the patches pasted all over this original.

'Branded' original cover artwork (1960) by Nino Caroselli from Thriller Picture Library 302

Captain Condor by Keith Watson from Lion 7 Oct 1961. I really like the spaceship design.

Eartha, (early 1980s) episode 6 drawn by Jon M Burns for The News Of The World Sunday Colour Magazine.

Laser Eraser and Pressbutton

Art by Garry Leach, November 1985. Hm, there was a bunch of Laser Eraser and Pressbutton stories specifically created for the American market. I wonder if they were ever collected?

Western Gunfighters

Back in the day I bought this magazine on the strength of the cover alone. Such a dynamic piece of art by Frank Bellamy. The original image plundered from here and the magazine nicked from here.

Doctor at Sea

Look-In, 8th June 1974. Art by Harry North.

Zarga-Man of Mystery

The great Joe Colquhoun provides art for this weeks Buster, dated 20th May 1972.

Arken Sword

Do I have to say who did the art? Arken Sword was a really cool zine that morphed into Ark, a pretty slick magazine back in the day. You can read some of the interview from this issue here.