Comics That Never Were #11

When comic mergers go wrong (or maybe right!)...

Comics That Never Were #10

Sometimes it's not a good idea to switch a comic or character into a different genre. (But sometimes it IS!)

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – Feb 2021

Our regular look at the British comics that are marking an important anniversary in the coming month...

Mistaken Identity: Doctor Doom

Sometimes comic-book characters end up having the same name, and that can happen for a number of reasons: 1. It’s a coincidence and couldn’t have been avoided. 2. The creators didn’t check. 3. The creators didn’t care. The first one definitely happened with Dennis the Menace, with both versions of the character launched in the …

Dateline: 26 Feb 1977

If you're a fan of British comics it possibly hasn't escaped your notice that 2000AD was launched this week(ish) in the year 1977. Some of the photons that left our sun on the day the comic was launched have potentially now travelled all the way to the binary star system of SZ Crateris. That's about …

Altered Images: From the Pit of Forgottenness… Fyre of London!

In days of yore I regularly contributed articles and such to fanzines and other small-press publications, and The Brentford Mercury -- the fanzine of Sproutlore, the Robert Rankin Appreciation Society -- was one of the most frequent recipients of my yammerings. Among my contributions to the Mercury was a short series of spoof comics and …

DC Thomson Comics Timeline

[Updated 20230829! Scroll all the way down to the end to see the update notes!] After three family trees focussing on IPC/Fleetway comics, it's time to take a look at their main rival, the noble Scottish house of DC Thomson, not to be confused with DC Comics (or even DC Thompson with a P as …