Super Sunday - the Sunday newspaper for boys and girls (1974)

This was a recent ebay find..."Super Sunday" a short-lived Sunday newspaper for boys and girls (as its masthead proclaims). The British Library catalogues it as having ran for 16 issues in 1974 - from 15th September to 29th December. I've included it on the blog on the basis of the comics strip it ran - 3 whole pages of comics says the front page!

Assuming the same strips were in each issue you had...

"Omily & Opylus - the adventures of two rival families in the wild west" - looks like a (French?) reprint but Google can tell me nothing about this strip. I can't quite make out the name of the name of the creators.

"Ringo". At least two stories "Ghatto's war" and "The good, the mad and the ugly". Again this looks like a French reprint, I can't quite read who the creators are and Google can't help me with the details of the strip. A mystery!

"Kebir - the princess and the diamond" - a reprint of a strip by Suat Yalaz (about whom more details can be found here)

I've had an update from Reddit about 'Super Sunday' from Bufete2020 who says...

I can tell you that Suat Yalaz (Turkish Artist) Link is the artists for both the Ringo (known in Turkey as "Soni Ringo") Link and the Kebir strip. Kebir was/is originally named Karaoglan in Turkey. Link. Not sure about Omily & Opylus

Latest Catawiki auction now open for bids

The latest Catawiki auction is now open for bidding (with the auction closing, as ever, on Thursday evening) and I've picked out my British comic art highlights...

This is a Modesty Blaise strip by Romero (from a 1974 story 'Take me to your leader')

This is a 1973 Robot Archie page from the 'Lost World' story

This is a Rogue Trooper page (by Kev Walker) from the 2000AD Winter special of 1988

Hans Kresse

I'm always happy to introduce newcomers to the blog...so it'a long overdue 'hello' to Dutch creator Hans Kresse (Wikipedia entry). Two volumes of his work were published by Methuen in (English) in 1975. 

These are very much like contemporary Asterix/Tintin volumes in that they are approximately A4 sized, full colour throughout & 48 pages long. Plus, if memory serves, a cracking read!

Hans Kresse - Master of Thunder, Methuen, 1975 - English text by Len Ortzen 

Hans Kresse - Riders of the wind, Methuen, 1975 - English text by Len Ortzen

The back page of the book shows that 2 further volumes were due to be published - sadly they were never published, presumably due to low sales on volume 1+2.

David Lloyd magazine covers - part 1 (of 2)

Inspired by something I saw on ebay recently led me down a bit of a rabbit hole of David Lloyd art (of which there is simply not enough!) so I thought I'd share what I've found so far.

All material is c/o this site - we'll have 

Balthus #4, 1972

Dark Horizons #10, 1974

Dark Horizons #17, 1977

Dreaamd of a dark hue, 1978

Dark Horizons #20, 1979