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Tag: Dandy
Most Popular Posts of 2022!
Looking back on Rusty Staples' most popular posts of 2022!
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – December 2022
As November draws to a close (and colours it in, barely going outside the lines at all), it's time to look ahead to December and the British comics that will be celebrating an important anniversary of some kind!
The Dandy, Ten Years Gone
Cruelly cut down on its 75th birthday (probably via poisoned birthday cake, I expect), The Dandy still lives on in the hearts and minds and brains and kidneys of British comics fans everywhere.
A Mere Coincidence? Hmm…
Strange Goings-on in British Comics... It couldn't all be a mere coincidence, could it? Or *could* it? Or... Couldn't it? Or maybe not!
British Comics Top-10 Issue-Count Chart – 2021b edition!
2000AD displaces another comic on the Top-Ten Issue-Count List, but... there's been an unexpected twist! Will things ever be the same again? Read on to find out!
British Comics Top-10 Issue-Count Chart – 2021a edition!
The officially unofficial guide to the most successful British Comics ever! (In terms of the number of issues, that is.)
British Comics Top-10 Issue-Count Chart – 2020 edition!
PLEASE NOTE: This chart is now OUT OF DATE! Click here for the latest version! 2000AD -- the legendary British Science Fiction anthology comic -- has now reached issue 2176, which means that it's time for me to fulfil the Ancient Prophecy I made in the last version of the issue-count chart and provide an … Continue reading British Comics Top-10 Issue-Count Chart – 2020 edition!
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
The British Comics Top-10 Longevity Chart!
PLEASE NOTE: This chart is now OUT OF DATE! Click here for the latest version! The British Science Fiction anthology comic 2000AD has, as of this week, reached issue 2104, which means it has overtaken War Picture Library (Amalgamated Press / Fleetway / IPC, from 1 Sep 1958 to 3 Dec 1984) in the number-of-issues … Continue reading The British Comics Top-10 Longevity Chart!
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