UPDATED: Comics Diaries

I've looked at the diaries produced by Eagle, Girl & Swift before, but in separate posts, so I thought I might usefully pull that information together into a single post.

I've now started adding other comics / comic strips to this listing - all new entries are shown in red. For this post I've added details of some Giles diaries.

c/o Steve Keene-Elliott who says...

From what information I've managed to gather, there were 4 Giles Diaries issued in total:
• Giles Diary 1994 (ISBN-10 0091778808, Random House, 1993)
• Giles Pocket Diary 1995 (ISBN-10 009178574X, Ebury Press Stationery, 1994)
• Giles Diary 1995 (ISBN-10 0091785162, Ebury Press Stationery, 1994)
• Giles Desk Diary 1996 (ISBN-10 0091806445, Vintage/Ebury, 1995)

Having said that, I've never seen the 1996 one, it's been on my wishlist for a very long time!

Rupert

Rupert diary, 1993

Rupert diary, 1995

Rupert diary, 2013

Rupert diary, 2015

Rupert diary, 2016

Eagle

Diaries were produced for at least 1951-63. No diary would have been produced for 1950 (Eagle launched in mid-April so that would have made no sense). I have copies of diaries for the following years...1951-63, so I'm just missing any produced from 1964 onwards. 

Diaries typically look like this...

Girl

This auction lot mention a Girl diary for 1953. Looks very similar to the 1956 one!

Only example I've ever seen - no idea how many were produced. This is for 1956.

Swift

Only example I've ever seen - no idea how many were produced

Judge Dredd diaries

For the year 2000...

and these images (all swiped from here) of a numbered limited edition version of the year 2000 diary as well

Doonesbury desk diaries

Doonesbury desk diary for 1984

Doonesbury desk diary for 1985

Doonesbury desk diary for 1988

Doonesbury desk diary for 1989

Doonesbury desk diary for 1991

Princess Tina diary 1968

image c/o Janis Cross (on the "Girls comics - UK" facebook group)

Princess Tina diary 1973

with more details here c/o friend of the blog Jeremy Briggs

TV21 diary for 1970

Originally priced at seven shillings in 1970 Letts published a much coveted, TV21 “desk diary”, featuring photographs from many of the Gerry Anderson series. Produced so it could be used for any year during the 1970s, they’re considered quite rare today, offered for eye watering prices unblemished on auction sites. Perhaps Anderson Entertainment should take note. “The price put it out of the range of many a fan of the time,” recalls John Freeman, “including me.”

The Murdersville blog has some more photos of interior pages

Eagle - 14th March 1964

Recently (here) I looked at a 'pay copy' of an Eagle annual, well here's something very similar - a pay copy of a 1964 issue of Eagle

art by Keith Watson; script by David Motton

art by Gerald Palmer

script by J. Edgar; art by Paul Trevillion

pistol artwork by John Batchelor; fishing script by WD Keal; other script by Dinah Lawrence

Script by George Beardmore; art by Ron Embleton

Script & artwork by Grestock & Marsh (might be an art agency rather than a pair of contributors)

artwork by Frank Humphris; script b EG Cowan

Eagle annual #5 - pay copy

A real one off here. Yes it's a 'pay copy' of Eagle annual #5. That is, it's a copy of the annual marked up with who was paid (and how much they were paid) for each page of the annual. I've seen copies of comics that were 'pay copies' but this was the first time I'd seen an annual.

Anyway, for posterity, here are some images from the annual. Sometimes the writer/artist is credited and sometimes it's their agent.

All images are c/o Gray Newell [with thanks to Norman Boyd for reminding me]. 

John Ryan's Harris Tweed in sporting action here 

The Imperial War Museum, R. Taylor and Frank Bellamy all contributed here

Art by Desmond Walduck; script by Alan Stranks

Art by Harry Bishop; script by Charles Chilton

More John Ryan (script & artwork)

David Langdon art (and script presumably)

Art by John Worsley; script by Alan Stranks (again)