The Daredevils, Marvel UK, 1983

Michael Carroll's timeline of Marvel UK comics (here) has an array of interestingly short-lived comics on that I thought I should create cover galleries for them. Sometimes this is easier said than done but let's start a covers gallery for the short-lived Daredevils comic from 1983. 

All images c/o here.

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #1

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #2, 50p

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #3, 50p

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #4, 50p, April

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #5, 50p, May

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #6, 60p, June

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #7, 60p, July

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #8, 65p, August

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #9, 65p, September

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #10, 65p, November

The Daredevils, Marvel UK, issue #11, 65p, November

Last of the summer wine - the Daily Star years!

I'm always delighted to feature newspaper strips on the blog (see this link for all mentions of newspaper strips so far) especially one-off collections.

The Daily Star newspaper most notably had a Judge Dredd strip in it for many years but it also had other strips and it's those that I'm more interested in. 

So far there's Ben & Katie (here) which was their version of George & Lynne. We can now add Last of the summer wine to that list. Only one reprint volume was produced (see images below - all taken from here - thanks!)

Art was by prolific cartoonist Roger Mahoney.

Carlos Ezquerra art up for sale this week

These pages are up for sale tonight, good luck if you bid!

Catawiki auctions are running an auction this week called 'From the vaults of the Book Palace' - they ran one before that I covered on the blog here. Anyway, this 2nd auction also features a number of Carlos pages (and loads of other great stuff too but I'm just going to focus on the Carlos pages)...

This page from 'The Moses incident'

This page from 'The Moses incident'

This page from Durham Red

This page from Durham Red

Carlos Ezquerra art up for sale this week

Catawiki auctions are running an auction this week called 'From the vaults of the Book Palace' - they ran one before that I covered on the blog here. Anyway, this 2nd auction also features a number of Carlos pages (and loads of other great stuff too but I'm just going to focus on the Carlos pages)...

Auctions close on Sunday 21st July.

This page from 'The Moses incident'

This page from 'The Moses incident'

This page from Durham Red

This page from Durham Red

UPDATED: Marvel UK's Worzel Gummidge weekly

For all fans of John Cooper's work don't forget that the Marvel UK Worzel Gummidge weekly (NOT to be confused with the Marvel UK Worzel Gummidge monthly) is stuffed full of his art.

It seems like a hard set to collect so here's what I've managed to track down quickly...all covers by John...got any spare issues? Get in touch!

All new / improved images are as follows...covers for issue 52, 53, 58 and 59 of Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge. With thanks to friend of the blog Stuart Vandal who alerted me to these images, thanks!

Issue 1

Issue 2

Issue 3

Issue 4

Issue 5

Issue 6

Issue 7

Issue 8

Issue 9

Issue 10

Issue 11

Issue 12

Issue 13

Issue 14

Issue 15

Issue 16

Issue 17

Issue 18

Issue 19

Issue 20

Issue 21

Issue 22

Issue 23

The title seems to have merged with Rupert weekly - here's issue #49 (dated 21st September 1983)...

...and here's issue #50 (dated 28th September 1983)  

...according to this site Worzel weekly only lasted 23 issues (so last issue dated 10th August [1983]) before it merged with Rupert Weekly [28th September 1983] - so a 6 week hiatus from the end of Worzel weekly to it joining Rupert weekly. 

I've no idea if John Cooper's artwork continued to appear in Rupert weekly.

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 51, 05/10/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 52, 12/10/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 53, 19/10/83 

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 54, 26/10/83 

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 55, 02/11/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 56, 09/02/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 57, 16/11/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 58, 23/11/83 

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 59, 30/11/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 60, 07/12/83

Rupert weekly with Worzel Gummidge, issue 61, 

The 'with Worzel Gummidge' continued to be on the masthead until issue 61... 

...but by issue 62 it was gone...