Rusty Staples’ Sixth Anniversary Celebration!

Today we are six! Blimey, that was quick!

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – February 2024

The British comics celebrating an important anniversary in February 2024.

Friday Flashback: Warrior

Now, this is the stuff!

Hatch, Match & Dispatch – February 2023

Crikey, a lot of important and influential British comics are celebrating the anniversaries of their births this month!

And the Winner is…

So... how'd you do in the Great Rusty Staples 2021 Calendar British Comics’ Logo Identification Competition?

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!

Super DC Bumper Book

Super DC was a forty-page monthly comic published by Top Sellers (AKA Thorpe & Porter) in the UK from June 1969 to July 1970. It reprinted American DC Comics strips alongside home-grown text features, puzzles, letters pages, etc. The strips were in black-and-white, culled from titles such as Action Comics, Detective Comics, Superboy, Superman's Pal …

Marvelman #294

My (so far) only copy of Marvelman - issue #294. Most L. Miller comics didn’t have cover dates, but I know that issue #25 of Marvelman (the first one after he supplanted Captain Marvel) was dated 3 February 1954, and it was a weekly publication until #344, so assuming that there were no weeks missed, …

Desert Island Comics – Michael Carroll

(Originally published on Forbidden Planet International blog, September 8, 2012, edited by Richard Bruton.) The latest poor desert islander, marooned with just a single luxury and a set of their favourite 8 comics ever, is Michael Carroll. Michael’s the creator of the highly-acclaimed Quantum Prophecy series of young adult superhero novels, and the newest writer …

Before Watchmen

I'm going to play Devil's Acrobat (or whatever the term is) here... I'm a huge Watchmen fan, and the thought of someone other than Alan Moore writing new Watchmen material is a little unsettling. But I have to remind myself that this isn't the first time it's happened. Back in 1987 or thereabouts DC released …