August 27th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 17)

August 20th, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 16)

August 12th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 15)

Terry and Kenny are finally reunited.

August 6th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 14)

Terry finally escaped the clutches of the baaaaaad men who were using him.

July 29th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 13)

You can’t keep a good monster down. Only 3 pages this week Monster fans.

July 23rd, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 12)

Look at Terry’s face when he sees Kenny on TV, aww bless.

July 23rd, 2008 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans |

The Collector “Profits of Doom” photostrip story

Paul at The Cobwebbed Room has posted a really cool little Alan Moore scripted story from a 1982 issue of Eagle comic. Coincidentally, I was thinking of posting a Collector story too, but the one he’s scanned is way better and rather appropriate for visitors to this site.

Click on the photo above or click HERE to read it.

July 15th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 11)

Oh No! Now they’ve gone and made him mad, grrrrrrrrr!

July 9th, 2008 | → 6 Comments | ∇ Blah, Comic Scans |

Survival (comic strip from 1980s Eagle comic)

Earlier this year, Max himself posted a couple of blog entries on his myspace profile about this disturbing story, along with the first three episodes. Survival‘s run in the 1980s Eagle comic began the week after the Thirteenth Floor finally came to an end. The story is about a killer virus which wipes out most of humanity, leaving only a few surviving children.

Click here for the first blog entry and here for the second one.

July 7th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Blah, Comic Scans |

Curtis Bronson Meets The Snake Mummy (part two) / Cursitor Doom

Okay, without further ado, here’s the second half of “Curtis Bronson, (Ghost Hunter), Meets The Snake Mummy“.

If you missed the first part, you can read it here.

As mentioned when I posted the first part of this strip, it’s actually an altered Cursitor Doom story. Cursitor Doom originally appeared in Smash! comic in 1969 and was usually written by Scott Goodall and illustrated by Eric Bradbury.

 The Buster Book of Spooky Stories wouldn’t be the only place he’d appear under a pseudonym. His stories have also been reprinted, (in colour), in Quality Comics‘ Spellbinders, alongside the likes of Nemesis The Warlock and Slaine,  where he was known as Amadeus Wolf.

In 1992, the 2000ad Action Special was published. It attempted to update classic British comic characters for a modern audience. The results were mostly dire, Mark Millar’s version of The Spider being the worst offender. However, the Cursitor Doom story, The Man Who Died Every Day, (written by John Tomlinson and drawn by Jim Baikie), was a notable exception, probably because the character wasn’t really altered at all. The story itself would not have looked out of place in an issue of Scream!

Although one of the stories in the special, Kelly’s Eye, would spin off into a series in 2000ad, further modern tales of Cursitor Doom from the 2000ad stable were not to be, which is probably just as well for 2000ad, as it turned out they didn’t own the rights to the characters featured in the special in the first place.

Cursitor Doom resurfaced in 2005 in what would be a pivotal role in the Leah Moore and John Reppion scripted mini-series, Albion. Plotted by Alan Moore, the story reveals that, unbeknown to the public at large, the characters from the British comics of the past actually existed.

Another early Cursitor Doom tale, Cursitor Doom and the Dark Legion of Mardarax appears in Albion Origins, a collection of classic comic strips which also reprints early adventures of Kelly’s Eye, House of Dolmann and Janus Stark.

July 7th, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 10)

Uncle Terry’s first rollercoaster ride ends in disaster but at least he manages to give the police the slip again>

July 2nd, 2008 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Comic Scans, Monster |

Monster continued… (part 9)

Uncle Terry’s first rollercoaster ride ends in disaster but at least he manages to give the police the slip again>