Call the Midwife series 13 comes to an end, but it gifts us with a mini-plethora of comics!
Tag: Tiger
Comics on TV: Call the Midwife yet again!
Call the Midwife is becoming a wee treasure trove for spotters of old British comics!
Comics on TV: Call the Midwife re-revisited!
What, this again? Yep, it's time to revisit 1960s London to earn our comic-spotter's badge!
Altered Images: Mary Jane Watson
Original: From Amazing Spider-Man #42 (Nov 1966), art by John Romita
Comics on TV: Life on Mars
In the 2006 TV show Life on Mars (named after the David Bowie song that was released on the 1971 album Hunky Dory) Manchester-based police officer Sam Tyler is struck by a car and wakes up in the year 1973. He doesn't know whether he's going crazy, in a coma, or has travelled back in … Continue reading Comics on TV: Life on Mars
The Eagle Timeline
The Eagle Family Tree was one of the first major posts on this blog, back in May 2018, but it's always bothered me a little that I did it the lazy way, showing only the hierarchical relationships between the comics and not a proper time-line. Plus, unlike some of the later timelines on this blog … Continue reading The Eagle Timeline
Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2020
There are lots of British Marvel comics in the list this month, folks! Can you name them all? Hmm... I bet there's at least one you've forgotten about (or maybe not even heard of)! We've also got a lot of titles that became part of the My Guy family tree, including My Guy itself and … Continue reading Hatch, Match & Dispatch – March 2020
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
Eaglution of British Comics, part 1
Update 20200414: Click here for the massively updated and improved Eagle Timeline! As I mentioned before (in Deciphering the Logo), in 1969 the legendary British comic Eagle ended its nineteen-year run when it was absorbed into Lion, which was then absorbed into Valiant in 1974, which was in turn gobbled up … Continue reading Eaglution of British Comics, part 1
Deciphering the Logo
A good few visitors to this blog have told me they've been attempting to identify the comics from which the letters of the blog's logo were taken. If you're also playing that game, then read no further because I'm about to reveal all the answers... First, the rules: I decided that each letter had to … Continue reading Deciphering the Logo