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Tag: Captain Britain
Comics in the Wild: #20221024
Comics in the Wild is just like our hyper-popular Comics on TV feature, but without the TV part!
Marvel UK 1900s Timeline!
A timeline of every Marvel UK comic published in the 1970s, '80s and '90s!
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – July 2022
They said it couldn't be done! They said it was absolutely impossible! To be fair, I'm not actually sure what they were talking about because I wasn't paying attention: I was too busy compiling a list of the British Comics that will be celebrating an important anniversary in the coming month... July 2022.
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – October 2021
Blimey AND crikey! It's all happening this month over at Rusty Manor where we're looking back at the British comics anniversaries for October 2021 -- could this be our BUSIEST MONTH EVER? Maybe! I don't know! I can't be bothered to check!
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – Feb 2021
Our regular look at the British comics that are marking an important anniversary in the coming month...
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!
Enfari’s Syndrome: Captain Britain
In 1976 an Irish kid living in the suburbs of Dublin was taking a bit of risk buying a comic called Captain Britain. Especially a kid like me: I was very small for my age, couldn't fight, and lacked the physical prowess to out-run a tree... and I possessed a self-defeating tendency to smart-mouth the … Continue reading Enfari’s Syndrome: Captain Britain
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 … Continue reading Dateline: 26 Feb 1977
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – January 2020
We're into 2020 now, which means that 1940 was a round number of years ago. This in turn means that this year we'll be acknowledging the anniversaries of the deaths of a lot of British comics thanks to the paper shortages of World War II. None for January, thankfully, but they're coming (spoiler: one of … Continue reading Hatch, Match & Dispatch – January 2020