Lawless 2024 - the photos, part 4

Hard to believe it's another 8 months to Lawless, boo! While we're waiting for the time to pass here's part 4 of my photos from Lawless 2024. 

Part 1 (the artists) was here

Part 2 - 2000AD art was here

Part 3 - more 2000AD art was here

and now some vintage British comic art...

Quite a few war picture library covers...

John M Burns & Mike Noble (left hand side, middle panel)

Ron Embleton art

Ian Kennedy art for new Eagle (top); John Bolton for Warrior (bottom)

top - Ron Embleton

bottom - Brian Lewis art for Captain Condor (in Lion)

UPDATED: rare Captain Condor merchandise not to be sniffed at

A while ago I wrote about some obscure Captain Condor merchandise...a further update has now been added at the bottom of this post - shown thus

Dan Dare really monopolised British comics space-based merchandise but his rival Captain Condor was not above getting in on the merchandise action...First 2 images are small handkerchiefs from my collection (of comic stuff, not handkerchiefs)...

This final image is one that I grabbed from an ebay listing a while back and show that, innovatively, the handkerchief set actually tell a story...

This image also shows that different colour schemes were used on the same image - compare my red-edged handkerchiefs with the ones above. I'm sure that collecting a set of these is hard enough without worrying about getting a blue-edged set, a green-edged set and a red-edged set. Who knows though? If you're a big Captain Condor fan there's not a lot of '50s merchandise out there for you to collect and this may be your Holy Grail. Good luck with it.

...UPDATE and now another two have come to light

This is an ebay swipe and is entitled "Arrival on the moon"

This one is entitled "Martians space ships" and is clearly, unlike the earlier handkerchiefs, not part of a story.

So these two look like they could be part of a 'non-storytelling' set, in which case there's maybe just two more to find.

FURTHER UPDATE...

this handkerchief was recently for sale on ebay...not sure how this one fits into the "chronology" above but it could come before "Arrival on the moon" 

and I've now found this further example - entitled "Captain Condor inspects the defence of London"

For my reference I own the following:

"The SOS brought an immediate response..."

"Captain Condor and Pete land on their space station..."

"Martians space ships"

"Captain Condor inspects the defences of London"

"A helicopter from the space station saves Captain Condor and Pete just in time"

That means I don't own the following:

"SOS Condor calling space station...

"Captain Condor in the luna magnet ship circles to land"

"Arrival on the moon"

UPDATED: rare Captain Condor merchandise not to be sniffed at

A while ago I wrote about some obscure Captain Condor merchandise...

Dan Dare really monopolised British comics space-based merchandise but his rival Captain Condor was not above getting in on the merchandise action...First 2 images are small handkerchiefs from my collection (of comic stuff, not handkerchiefs)...

This final image is one that I grabbed from an ebay listing a while back and show that, innovatively, the handkerchief set actually tell a story...

This image also shows that different colour schemes were used on the same image - compare my red-edged handkerchiefs with the ones above. I'm sure that collecting a set of these is hard enough without worrying about getting a blue-edged set, a green-edged set and a red-edged set. Who knows though? If you're a big Captain Condor fan there's not a lot of '50s merchandise out there for you to collect and this may be your Holy Grail. Good luck with it.

...UPDATE and now another two have come to light

This is an ebay swipe and is entitled "Arrival on the moon"

This one is entitled "Martians space ships" and is clearly, unlike the earlier handkerchiefs, not part of a story.

So these two look like they could be part of a 'non-storytelling' set, in which case there's maybe just two more to find.

FURTHER UPDATE...

this handkerchief was recently for sale on ebay...not sure how this one fits into the "chronology" above but it could come before "Arrival on the moon" 

Lion Picture Library issues 1-10

I've looked (here) at rare Captain Condor merchandise, and in the course of those researches discovered that he'd been featured in a few issues of Lion Picture Library.


When I started looking for which issues I couldn't find a group of images anywhere so I had to rustle up my own list...what's most interesting to me is how these early issues had a named character in them rather than a hero you'd never come across before. Does that mean that these were strips reprinted from the comics? I'm not sure as I don't own any of these picture libraries. If you think you can hep just let me know.

For now though here's part 1 of my guide to Lion Picture Library, enjoy! 

Lion Picture Library issue 1 - Paddy Payne

Lion Picture Library issue 2 - Robot Archie

cover art looks like it's by Eric Parker to me

Lion Picture Library issue 3 - Paddy Payne

Lion Picture Library issue 4 - Robot Archie

cover art looks like it's by Eric Parker to me

Lion Picture Library issue 5 - Paddy Payne

Lion Picture Library issue 6 - Captain Condor

Lion Picture Library issue 7 - Paddy Payne

Lion Picture Library issue 8 - Robot Archie

Lion Picture Library issue 9 - Captain Condor

Lion Picture Library issue 10 - Scoop Donovan

UPDATED: rare Captain Condor merchandise not to be sniffed at

A while ago I wrote about some obscure Captain Condor merchandise...

Dan Dare really monopolised British comics space-based merchandise but his rival Captain Condor was not above getting in on the merchandise action...First 2 images are small handkerchiefs from my collection (of comic stuff, not handkerchiefs)...

This final image is one that I grabbed from an ebay listing a while back and show that, innovatively, the handkerchief set actually tell a story...

This image also shows that different colour schemes were used on the same image - compare my red-edged handkerchiefs with the ones above. I'm sure that collecting a set of these is hard enough without worrying about getting a blue-edged set, a green-edged set and a red-edged set. Who knows though? If you're a big Captain Condor fan there's not a lot of '50s merchandise out there for you to collect and this may be your Holy Grail. Good luck with it.

...UPDATE and now another two have come to light

This is an ebay swipe and is entitled "Arrival on the moon"

This one is entitled "Martians space ships" and is clearly, unlike the earlier handkerchiefs, not part of a story.

So these two look like they could be part of a 'non-storytelling' set, in which case there's maybe just two more to find.

Captain Condor rare merchandise not to be sniffed at

Dan Dare really monopolised British comics space-based merchandise but his rival Captain Condor was not above getting in on the merchandise action...First 2 images are small handkerchiefs from my collection (of comic stuff, not handkerchiefs)...

This final image is one that I grabbed from an ebay listing a while back and show that, innovatively, the handkerchief set actually tell a story...

This image also shows that different colour schemes were used on the same image - compare my red-edged handkerchiefs with the ones above. I'm sure that collecting a set of these is hard enough without worrying about getting a blue-edged set, a green-edged set and a red-edged set. Who knows though? If you're a big Captain Condor fan there's not a lot of '50s merchandise out there for you to collect and this may be your Holy Grail. Good luck with it.

Did you know Frank S Pepper wrote for Mills & Boon?

Frank S Pepper is remembered as the comics writer who gave us Roy of the Rovers, Captain Condor, Rockfist Rogan and many more besides (his Wikipedia entry is here).

What he's not remembered as is a Mills & Boon writer, but here is is...90 pages of story in the 'Venture books' line of horror / adventure titles. Published in 1977 and easy to acquire if you are happy to spend £15-£20. Harder to acquire if, like me, you think that's way too much.

Those 'Venture book' titles in full...

• Tiger Trap by Patrick McDonald
• Hound of Frankenstein by Peter Tremayne
• Adam by Mike Baker
• The blood of Dracula by Jack Hamilton Teed
• Rig 59 by Matt Chisholm
• Big deep by Frank S Pepper

I haven't actually read it - I'll let you know if it's any good