Rusty Staples’ Oh-So-Lazy Fifth Anniversary Celebration Article!

Happy Birthday to Rusty Staples, your favourite comics blog! Hooray!

Most Popular Posts of 2022!

Looking back on Rusty Staples' most popular posts of 2022!

In-Shallow Profile: Marvel UK’s Bea Comic

Until recently we weren't even able to prove that Marvel UK's Bea comic lasted for more than one issue... and now we have all of them!

Marvel UK 1900s Timeline!

A timeline of every Marvel UK comic published in the 1970s, '80s and '90s!

Marvel UK’s Mysterious Bea Comic — Excitingish News!

Oooh! Wasn't sure this would ever happen...!

Rusty’s Reviews Round-Up

To save you literally whiles of searching through this blog, here are all of Rusty's reviews in one place!

“Remind me again… What’s the publisher’s daughter’s name?”

It's long been a tradition for British comics aimed at girls to be given a girls' name (that is, a name we tend to commonly associate with female people), but -- not counting those whose title is the name of a character like Batman or Popeye -- how many comics can you list that have …

Marvel UK 70s & 80s Leftovers Timeline

Stop! Before you go any further, please be aware that this article has been replaced by the much more comprehensive Marvel UK 1900s Timeline! A few weeks ago we looked at the Mighty World of Marvel and Spider-Man Comics Weekly family trees, so here's a timeline of the remaining Marvel UK comics of the 70s …

Most Popular Posts of 2018!

Rusty Staples was launched only about eight months ago as the fly crows, but already it's in the top 100% of the most popular comic blogs ever! Amazing, I know, but there you go: you wonderful people know awesomeness when you see it! Now, to welcome in the year 2019, I'd like to take you …

Bea: The Rarest Marvel UK Comic?

(Note: This was originally published on the always excellent but sadly-missed 2000AD and Beyond blog) For a few years now I’ve been steadily compiling a list of all the comics (and story-papers) ever published in the UK. The list is nowhere near complete (it currently contains 1,559 different titles: I’m guessing that I’ve passed the …