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The Complete Judge Dredd No. 1, dated February 1992. It collected the first fourteen Dredd stories and involved a varied team of writers and artists. The writers were Peter Harris, Kelvin Gosnell, Malcom Shaw, Charles Herring and John Wagner. The art was by Mick McMahon, Carlos Ezquerra, Massimo Belardinelli, Ron Turner and Ian Gibson.

#1992 #the complete judge dredd #carlos ezquerra #mick mcmahon #ian gibson #ron turner #massimo belardinelli #judge dredd #peter harris #kelvin gosnell #malcolm shaw #charles herring

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downthetubes · 1 year

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In Memoriam: Comic Artist Kevin O'Neill 1953 - 2022

Marking his passing, we highlight some of the key aspects of Kevin O'Neill's career; and fellow comic creators, friends and fans pay tribute

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Comics read this past week:

Marvel Comics:

The Incredible Hulk (1968) #233-237 and The Defenders (1972) #69-73 and the Hulk stories in Hulk Comic (1979) #1-6 and #9-13

Within the main The Incredible Hulk book, I went from December 1978 to April 1979. All of those issues were written by Roger Stern and penciled by Sal Buscema. Issue #233 was inked by Chic Stone, issues #234 and #237 by Jack Abel, and issues #235-236 by Mike Esposito.

I enjoyed the story of these issues on their own, but they were a disappointment as the follow-up to the events of The Incredible Hulk #228-229 in which the best chance the Hulk’s ever had to live a peaceful life was ruined by the villain Moonstone goading the Hulk into attacking her and then playing innocent, which led to Doc Samson giving up on rehabilitating the Hulk, when he’d previously been making progress as his therapist. Issue #230 had been by a guest creative team and issues #231-232 were a crossover with Captain America (1968), so I had thought that it made some amount of sense for those stories to feel sort of discontinued from all that, but it seems to me now that they’re just not committing to having lasting consequences for any of that, which is disappointing because that storyline had been so impactful as a reader. The end of issue #229 was Doc Samson dramatically declaring that now he’ll likely help hunt the Hulk and then in these issues he’s inexplicably working towards helping the Hulk as he was before and also learns that Moonstone was a villain in an aside in a scene largely focused on something else.

The Defenders #69 was co-plotted by Jim Shooter and Jo Duffy and then scripted by Jo Duffy. Issues #70-73 were written by Ed Hannigan. Herb Trimpe penciled issues #69-70 and #72-73 and for issue #71 he just did the breakdowns and Jack Abel finished the art. Al Milgrom inked issue #69, Mike Esposito inked #70 and #73, Jack Abel inked #71, and Fred Kida inked #72.

It had been some time since I’d read any Defenders and I really enjoyed getting back into this book. I’m invested in the overall team and the relationships between the various members, the Hulk characterization within these issues was great, and I also really liked Herb Trimpe’s art here. I’m really hoping that this is the end of the Lunatick’s time in the book, his role as a villain has been going on forever and he’s not interesting enough to justify that. I’m specifically hoping for more stories about Valkyrie at college that don’t feature that guy and actually depict her taking classes. I am expecting the conclusion of Kyle being investigated for tax evasion to be coming up soon, but I’m not sure what’s going on with Patsy. And I’m not sure yet if Dr. Strange has returned to the team or if that was only a temporary thing for the specific plot of these issues. Clea Strange has expressed an interest in joining the team.

And Hulk Comic was a black-and-white weekly anthology British magazine that began publication in March 1979. Some of the content in it is original and some of it is reprints of previously published comics but extensively edited to condense them to 3 pages. I’m skipping the edited reprints and am just reading the original Hulk content. As supplementary material to the main Hulk comics, I actually like these stories better than I did The Rampaging Hulk (1977) and do The Hulk! (1978).

The original Hulk story in issue #1 of Hulk Comic was written by Steve Moore, the ones in #2-3 and #5-6 and #9-13 by Steve Parkhouse, and the one in #4 by Kelvin Gosnell. The original Hulk story in issue #1 was penciled by Dave Gibbons, the one in issue #2 by Steve Dillion, the one in issue #3 by John Bolton, and the ones in #4-6 and #9-13 by Paul Neary.

Fawcett Comics:

the Golden Arrow stories in Whiz Comics (1940) #43 and #52 and #56 and #58 and #69 and #83

The Golden Arrow stories in Whiz Comics #56 and #58 were written by Otto Binder, the writers for the rest of the stories are unknown, and all of these stories were drawn by Harry Parkhurst. This was my first time reading any Golden Arrow, who was a long-standing character in Whiz Comics that actually appeared for the first time in the same issue that Captain Marvel did, Whiz Comics #2. Golden Arrow was a western character that fought with golden arrows and rode a white stallion named White Wind. Some of these stories here looked a lot like what I’ve read of Harry Parkhurst’s Hopalong Cassidy stories, another western Fawcett character, and a few of them actually looked a lot like his work in Champion Comics and Champ Comics which was a welcome surprise.

I selected these issues to read, and the Hopalong Cassidy stories I read last week, by checking what Harry Parkhurst had been credited with on the DC wiki website. But I checked the Grand Comics Database this week and saw that he actually drew a lot more Golden Arrow and Hopalong Cassidy stories than the DC wiki had listed. But I’ve decided that this was a good enough dive into his work for now and I’m ending my Harry Parkhurst journey after I read through the Golden Arrow stories he drew in Golden Arrow (1942) #4 just cause that was on my list to read this past week but I didn’t get to it. I do intend to read through the rest of his Fawcett work at some point, but it’s not a priority for me. I really enjoyed reading a variety of comics drawn by the same artist and seeing the variations in his style and I liked how this process got me reading genres I hadn’t ever checked out before, so I intend to repeat the process I took with Harry Parkhurst with other Golden Age artists whose styles look interesting to me.

Harvey Comics:

the Jungle Man stories in Champion Comics (1939) #2-9 and Champ Comics (1940) #11-12

I don’t know who wrote any of these stories. I could believe that Harry Parkhurst drew all of them, but the story in Champion Comics #2 has the name Don Traver within the art in a panel on the last page. The reason why I’d question that is that I’ve seen a few stories that are clearly not drawn or written by the same person that have the credit “by Don Traver” on the first page, including the Jungle Man story in Champion Comics #5 which looks just like the Neptina stories, which makes me think that this was a pseudonym used by multiple people. The story in Champion Comics #6 actually has Harry Parkhurst’s signature on it. There isn’t much of anything on Don Traver online, other that he also apparently also drew some Koroo the Black Lion stories for Bilbara Publishing, so I’ve added those to my ever-growing comics to-read list.

These stories started out following the adventure of Jungle Man, a ‘white savage’, in a Cambodian jungle. Then he agreed to move to America with his love Louise and her father Professor Carson, a plan that was immediately derailed. The rest of the stories had Jungle Man and co trying to survive on the jungle island they were shipwrecked on. This was my first time reading jungle-based comics and I thought it was interesting, though there were obviously some uncomfortable elements.

Note that there was actually a Jungle Man story, presumably also drawn by Harry Parkhurst, in Champion Comics #10 but I wasn’t able to read it because that issue hasn’t been scanned and uploaded online yet. And there were Jungle Man stories in Champ Comics #14-17 but I didn’t read them because Harry Parkhurst didn’t draw them.

And note that these issues were actually published by Worth Publishing Company and then Champ Publishing Company, because Harvey Comics didn’t take over the series until issue #18. I’ve listed these issues under Harvey Comics just because that’s the section on the Digital Comic Book Museum website they’re available under.

Eternity Comics:

the Betty Blake stories in Spicy Tales (1988) #3 and #5

These two 2-page stories, which were reprinted from the November 1934 issue and the July 1935 issue of Super-Detective Stories respectively, are all that’s available to me of Harry Parkhurst’s work from the 1930s. I had been completely unaware that there were any comics printed in men’s pulp magazines in the 30s before reading these. I saw a site that compared Betty Blake to another similar character from this era, Sally the Sleuth, and determined that in Betty’s stories “the almost-obligatory bondage and rape scenarios that Sally regularly endured (particularly in her earliest adventures) were absent” and that the character existed in “a seemingly more stylish and less raucous- if no less treacherous- world than the one Sally inhabited.” I enjoyed these two stories and would like to read all of her appearances if only they were available. There doesn’t seem to be as much of an effort online to scan old pulp magazines as there is for old comics, and the material the pulps were printed on probably doesn’t help.

The Betty Blake stories were actually both written and drawn by Harry Parkhurst. Both of these stories were recognizable to me as his artwork and didn’t seem any less skillfully drawn than the stories I read drawn by him from the 40s, despite the decade gap between them. Though the first story was drawn in a less-detailed style that looks more like his Jungle Man work and some of the westerns that he drew, and the second is more detailed and more reminiscent of his Neptina, Queen of the Deep, stories. The bulk of his western work, particularly what I’ve read of his Hopalong Cassidy stories, seems to me to be at a middle point between those two styles, but I think find the two solidly different approaches more appealing than the middle ground.

Eastern Color Printing Company:

the Connie pages in Famous Funnies (1934) #1-19

Famous Funnies, which reprinted popular syndicated newspaper strips, was “the first regularly published comic book in the standard format” and I decided to start reading the Connie reprints in it after seeing a page of the strip in Ron Goulart’s Great History of Comic Books and really admiring the art. Funnily enough, that page depicts the character time traveling, but everything I’ve read so far shows her in detective stories reminiscent of the Nancy Drew books that I read when I was younger. I’m not sure when it evolves into a science fiction strip, but I think the process will be interesting to read, though I did find these stories really enjoyable. Connie was both written and drawn by Frank Godwin and issue #1 of Famous Funnies had 4 Connie pages, issues #2-16 had 2 Connie pages, and issues #17-19 had 1 Connie page.

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thecomicon · 3 years

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Preview: 'The Stainless Steel Rat Deluxe Edition' - The Galaxy's Greatest Galactic Agent/ Con Man/ President

Preview: ‘The Stainless Steel Rat Deluxe Edition’ – The Galaxy’s Greatest Galactic Agent/ Con Man/ President

The return of a legendary character, from the legendary Harry Harrison novels, brought to 2000 AD by the legendary team of Carlos Ezquerra and Kelvin Gosnell – making The Stainless Steel Rat Deluxe Edition a legendary collection!Continue reading

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#2000 AD #Carlos Ezquerra #comics #Kelvin Gosnell #The Stainless Steel Rat

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sfcrowsnest · 3 years

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Stainless Steel Rat on 2000AD: a comic-book retrospective (video).

Harry Harrison’s Stainless Steel Rat books of everyone’s favourite future crook turned secret agent, slippery Jim diGriz, made a much-loved jump to the pages of UK comic-book 2000AD back in the early days of the comic. It was a classic, and like all classics, it deserves a retrospective, as comics editor John Freeman chats to writer Kelvin Gosnell about the series. Along the way, they discuss…

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#2000AD #Stainless Steel Rat

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goodtobegeeking · 3 years

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Stainless Steel Rat on 2000AD: a comic-book retrospective (video).

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#2000AD #Stainless Steel Rat

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fumettomania-web-magazine · 3 years

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(via In Review: The Stainless Steel Rat Deluxe Edition)

Dall'Inghilterra: la Recensione di "The Stainless Steel Rat "Deluxe Edition ("Il Topo in Acciaio Inossidabile" Edizione Deluxe) di Joe Gordon, sul blog dell'amico John Freeman Il volume è Scritto da Kelvin Gosnell, adattato dai libri di Harry Harrison, i disegni sono di Carlos Ezquerra. L'Editore è Rebellion.

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waitwhatpod · 7 years

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Look how wonderful this double-page spread is. (From 2000AD #140, by Kelvin Gosnell and Carlos Ezquerra, colorist unknown but what a job they did.) -- Graeme

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2000adonline · 7 years

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40 Years of Thrillpower: Flesh (Book 1) - Joan Boix

Terrific opening-page dinosaur action, introducing the Trans-Time Corp. concept of using time travel to harvest huge quantities of fresh meat for a hungry 23rd century populace.

From Prog 1 - Flesh (Book 1): Pat Mills (w). Various artists, inc. Spanish artists; Boix & Ramon Sola, Ken Armstrong, Kelvin Gosnell & others..

#Flesh #Boix #2000AD #Prog 1 #dinosaurs #cowboys #time travel #comics

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wildewood · 4 years

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2000AD and Tornado Prog 170: Dredd Meets - The Necromancer! "It is useless to resist, little man - you have been judged DEAD!"

2000AD and Tornado Prog 170: Dredd Meets – The Necromancer! "It is useless to resist, little man – you have been judged DEAD!"

A third week of cover’s from Mike McMahon, this one introducing Murd the Oppressor – cover date 26 July 1980.

Tharg’s Nerve Centre explicitly promotes 178 as a special prog, so that must have been the ‘judgement is coming’ ad a few weeks ago.

The Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison, adapted by Kelvin Gosnell and Ezquerra. This episode opens with Slippery Jim stealing money – somewhere…

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#adaptations #adverts #aliens #animals #castles #character death #chases #disembodied brains #first appearances #flying aliens #magic #maritime #psychic powers #robots #time travel #wars

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brokenfrontier · 7 years

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Happy Birthday 2000 AD! - Celebrating Four Decades of the Galaxy's Greatest Comic

Happy Birthday 2000 AD! – Celebrating Four Decades of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic

Forty years ago, in February 1977, a green-skinned alien from Betelgeuse who absolutely, quite categorically was not editor Kelvin Gosnell in a joke shop mask hurled Britain’s comics readers into the far, far future world of 2000 AD, and somehow, in 2017, we’re still there! Springing from the fertile mind of Pat Mills, the man who had delighted kids and outraged parents with the UK weekly Action…

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#2000 AD #judge dredd

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ginge1962 · 1 month

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The Lawless Touch collection (free with Judge Dredd Megazine No.387) featuring strips from the british comic Tornado No,11-22 & Tornado Annual 1981.

#kelvin gosnell #comic books #british comics #barry mitchell #judge dredd megazine #the lawless touch #john cooper #r tufnell #steve mcmanus #tornado comic #tornado annuals

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downthetubes · 1 year

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Hibernia Comics teases Starlord project, as fans celebrate 45th anniversary of the the short-lived but influential British comic

A new project delving into the origins of an influential but sadly short-lived British comic is in the works from Hibernia Comics, publishers of the Fleetway Files

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#2000AD #David McDonald #downthetubes News #Fleetway Files #Kelvin Gosnell #Ro-Busters #Sergeant Strong #SF Comics #Starlord #Strontium Dog

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downthetubes · 6 months

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First ever collection of Starlord's short-lived "TimeQuake" out now from Hibernia Comics

Step aside, Doctor! Hibernia Comics are back with the fifth in its Fleetway Files collection – ‘TimeQuake’!

Hibernia Comics are back with the fifth in its Fleetway Files collection, TimeQuake, written by Chris Lowder, available to order now. Long before the agents of Indigo Prime and Loki’s Time Variance Authority there was TimeQuake! Time-Control patrol the timelines to keep reality safe from time-quakes: devastating changes to the structure of time caused by threats ranging from alien incursions to…