UPDATED: Power Rangers - the official magazine (1996)

I've looked before (here) at Power Rangers comics from 1995 - there have been a lot of Power Rangers comics over the years so it's important to be able to tell them all apart. 

There was a Marvel UK comic [not yet covered on the blog] that ran from 1st March 1995 to 1st March 1996 (13 issues) and that title seems to have been followed by this title - "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine". There is comics content but it's limited. These are slim magazines, only 28 pages in total (including covers) but they do all feature a 5 page comic strip at the start of each issue. I'm reliably informed that there were 8 issues in total.

The credits on page 2 of issue one list Helen Nally as art director, Glenn Dakin as editor, Gary Ninja Gilbert as designer and Mark Irvine / Andy Parslow as 'production'.

By issue 4 Jason Quinn is project leader

Here's what I've found so far...the covers for issues 2 & 3 are new for this update

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #1, 10th May 1996

story - "Victims of Vegetabully", story & art by Paul Kirchner, inks by Ralph Reese 

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #2, 24th May 1996

no details of the writer / artists credits to hand

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #3, 7th June 1996

no details of the writer / artists credits to hand

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #4, 21st June 1996

story is untitled - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor 'Rita' Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #5, 5th July 1996

story is "The return of Sabrina!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor Glenn Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #6, 19th July 1996

story is "The ice cream caper!" - story by Ian Carney, art by Brian Williamson, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and editor "Chunky" Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #7, 2nd August 1996

story is "Duelling duet!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Dumpster" Dakin

David Leach provides some spot illustrations on other pages

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #8, 16th August 1996

story is "Bee-ware" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Trumpetop" Dakin

Some feedback from the actual editor after my previous post about these...

Power Rangers - the official magazine (1996)

I've looked before (here) at Power Rangers comics from 1995 - there have been a lot of Power Rangers comics over the years so it's important to be able to tell them all apart. 

There was a Marvel UK comic [not yet covered on the blog] that ran from 1st March 1995 to 1st March 1996 (13 issues) and that title seems to have been followed by this title - "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine". There is comics content but it's limited. These are slim magazines, only 28 pages in total (including covers) but they do all feature a 5 page comic strip at the start of each issue. I'm reliably informed that there were 8 issues in total.

The credits on page 2 of issue one list Helen Nally as art director, Glenn Dakin as editor, Gary Ninja Gilbert as designer and Mark Irvine / Andy Parslow as 'production'.

By issue 4 Jason Quinn is project leader

Here's what I've found so far...

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #1, 10th May 1996

story - "Victims of Vegetabully", story & art by Paul Kirchner, inks by Ralph Reese 

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #2, 24th May 1996

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #3, 7th June 1996

cover image not to hand - can you help?

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #4, 21st June 1996

story is untitled - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor 'Rita' Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #5, 5th July 1996

story is "The return of Sabrina!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell, editor Glenn Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #6, 19th July 1996

story is "The ice cream caper!" - story by Ian Carney, art by Brian Williamson, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and editor "Chunky" Dakin

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #7, 2nd August 1996

story is "Duelling duet!" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by John Burns, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Dumpster" Dakin

David Leach provides some spot illustrations on other pages

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - the official magazine, Marvel UK, issue #8, 16th August 1996

story is "Bee-ware" - story by Pat Kelleher, pencils by Andrew Wildman, inks by Bambos Georgiou, colours by Maria Keane, lettering by Elitta Fell and the editor is "Trumpetop" Dakin

Marvel UK's 'Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers'

Continuing by look at short-run Marvel UK comics here's my gallery of 'Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers' - only 9 issues in total but hard work to collect these days.

Other Marvel UK titles I've looked at include...
Captain Planet is here
The collected Zoids is here
The collected Ghostbusters is here
Lady Lovely Locks is here

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 1 - cover by Dougie Braithwaite & Dave Elliott 

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 2 - cover by Andy Wildman & Dave Elliott

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 3 - cover by Kev Hopgood & Steve White

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 4 - cover by Dougie Braithwaite & Dave Elliott

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 5 - cover by Dougie Braithwaite & Dave Elliott

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 6 - cover by Andy Wildman & Dave Elliott

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 7 - cover by Liam Sharp & Cam Smith

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 8 - cover by Dougie Braithwaite & Cam Smith

Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers, Marvel UK, issue 9 - cover by Liam Sharp & Cam Smith

Transformers - Perchance to dream

Ages ago (here, here, here and here) I looked at 4 (of the 5) small Transformers reprint volumes that Titan books published in 2005. I've now acquired the 5th volume so I present it here to bring my researches up to date....

Stories are taken from Transformers #255-260, 230-233, 241-242 & 287-289

Stories are...
Perchance to dream - script by Simon Furman, art by Andrew Wildman, Staz, John Stokes, 
The big shutdown! - script by Simon Furman, art by Lee Sullivan
A small war! - script by Simon Furman, art by Jeff Anderson, Geoff Senior
Rage! - script by Simon Furman, art by Andrew Wildman
Inside story! - script by Simon Furman, art by Pete Knifton
Front line! - script by Simon Furman, art by Pete Knifton
End of the road! - script by Simon Furman, art by Staz

Judge Dredd - LOTF, contributor guide

Inspired by a recent question from David McDonald (about the picture at the bottom of this post) I thought I'd share the centre pages from the Judge Dredd (Lawman of the future) action special. 

Why? Well they provide a (still relatively rare) guide to precisely who did what in the whole run of the Lawman of the future ('90s Stallone movie spin-off Dredd comic). A useful list and it's got some familar name on it (and just as interestingly it's got some unknown names on it). Anyway, a useful reference sheet. The strips were credited in LOTF but it's still handy so have them all in one place like this. 

Transformers - Aspects of evil

Ages ago (here, here and here) I looked at 3 (of the 5) small Transformers reprint volumes that Titan books published in 2005. I've now acquired the 4th volume so I present it here to bring my researches up to date....

Contents are from the following issues of Transformers 223-227, 251-254, 235-236, 240 & 245-7 and are as follows:

Aspects of evil! script by Simon Furman, art by Jeff Anderson, Art Wetherll, Simon Coleby, Andrew Wildman, Lee Sullivan, Cam Smith
The Void! script by Simon Furman, art by Staz
Edge of impact script by Simon Furman, art by Staz
Shadow of evil script by Simon Furman, art by Cam S[mith]
White fire script by Simon Furman, art by Cam Smith
Deathbringer script by Simon Furman, art by Geoff Senior, Staz
Out to lunch script by Simon Furman, art by Andy Wildman
_{^{Underworld! script by Simon Furman, art by Jeff Anderson
Demons! script by Simon Furman, art by Jeff Anderson
Dawn of darkness script by Simon Furman, art by Geoff Senior}}

Transformers - Earthforce

Book 4 (and the last I have) in this series of 5 reprints by Titan Books - this was published in November 2005. In Earthforce, Optimus Prime realises that having brought the war to earth, the Autobots must protect humanity...but with the hard-headed, battle-hungry Dinobot, Grimlock, in charge, the heroes may be even more dangerous than the villains!

Stories are credited as being from the following issues:
261-267, 269, 271, 278-281, 234 & 228

Stories are as follows:
Starting Over! - script by Simon Furman; art by Staz
Two steps back! - script by Simon Furman; art by Andy Wildman
Break-away! - script by Simon Furman; art by Staz
Desert island risks! - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Pete Venters
Once upon a time - uncredited
Life in the slow lane - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Pete Venters
Snow Fun - script by Simon Furman; art by Jeff Anderson
Mystery! - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Pete Venters
The living nightlights! - script by Simon Furman; art by John Marshall & Stephen Baskerville
The house that Wheeljack built! - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Michael Eve
Divide and conquer! - script by Simon Furman; art by Staz
The 4,000,000 year itch - script by Simon Furman; art by Jeff Anderson
Makin' tracks! - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Michael Eve
Prime's Rib! - script by Simon Furman; art by Andy Wildman
[Double] Deal of the century! - script by Simon Furman; art by Andy Wildman

Transformers - Fallen Star

Here's book 3 (of) in the Titan Book Transformers reprint, this volume from September 2005

All the books highlight that the strips are taken from Marvel UK's Transformers title issues 219-222, 229, 237-239, 272-247, 282-283 & 249-50 - but as I don't have these I can't tell which issues the following stories originally appeared in...

Race with Devil - script by Simon Furman; art by Andy Wildman

Fallen star - script by Simon Furman; art by Andy Wildman

Mind games - script by Simon Furman; art by Staz
Two Megatrons! - script by Simon Furman; art by Geoff Senior
Flashback! - script by Simon Furman; art by Stephen Baskerville & John Marshall
The bad guys ball! - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Michael Eve
Secrets - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Pete Venters
Bugged - script by Simon Furman; art by Jeff Anderson & Michael Eve
Internal Affairs! - script by Simon Furman; art by Simon Coleby & Michael Eve
Assassins - script by Simon Furman; art by Jeff Anderson & Michael Eve                                     External forces! - script by Simon Furman; art by Pete Knifton & Pete Venters
The lesser evil- script by Simon Furman; art by John Marshall & Jeff Anderson