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There was a story in which a man called Boothby got transformed into a monstrous looking mentally-subnormal creature, in some sort of scientific experiment. I recall the sequence with him roaming the streets going, 'Boothbbyyy!' -trying to tell people that was who he was, as they all fled in terror.
Does anyone recall that strip in which two blokes have a man prisoner and put a poisonous tarantula spider on him, and taunt and gloat over him, with evil laughs, before one of them tickles him with a feather to make him squirm and get the spider to sting and kill him? |
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I think you might be referring to a story from Mannix which had a similar theme?
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Wasn't it the Manix photo strip called The Uglies which featured transformed scientists in bad joke shop masks?
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Wasn't it the Manix photo strip called The Uglies which featured transformed scientists in bad joke shop masks?
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Yes, that's the one. Boy was it a relief when they started drawing the strip instead.
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Plus they had three very different models playing Manix; a medium build dark-haired guy, a stocky bald guy and a thin blonde guy. IIRC, the story only ever accounted for changes to Manix's face and hair, even though each new model was a different build from the last one.
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Thunderbolt and Smokey was the one with the two boys in the schools' football tournament, wasn't it? I recall there was a bully, called Jaws Jenner, and an obnoxious teacher, Mr Ferris, who were the nemeses of the two heroes.
I'm fairly certain I saw the man who played the lead character in Joe Soap the photo strip, in an old episode of The Sweeney that I saw repeated not long ago. |
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I may be hallucinating but I seem to remember Gary Glitter guest-starring in that strip? Also speaking of The Sweeney didn't they guest star in The Invisible Kid?
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It wasn't Gary Glitter. A story in Joe Soap included an aging pop star who dressed rather similarly, and who seemed to have suffered a downturn in popularity.
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As it was the early 80s, he had no doubt been edged out by punk then the New Romantics and synth music.
Quite the reverse!After his career as GG nosedived around 1976, he was actually sustained by the late 1970s-early 1980s punks and post-punks, and then the New Romantics and synth-pop fans. 1981-84 was a second coming almost - there were a number of sold-out tours which were astounding tribal gatherings packed to the rafters. University audiences loved him too. |
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I may be hallucinating but I seem to remember Gary Glitter guest-starring in that strip?
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I'd always assumed it was a barely-disguised GG.
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I bought a load of 80s Eagles from issue 1 to 250 odd a couple of years back but still haven't read them.. will have a look for these gems when I get some time
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I'd always assumed it was a barely-disguised GG.
Quite the reverse! After his career as GG nosedived around 1976, he was actually sustained by the late 1970s-early 1980s punks and post-punks, and then the New Romantics and synth-pop fans. 1981-84 was a second coming almost - there were a number of sold-out tours which were astounding tribal gatherings packed to the rafters. University audiences loved him too. |
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I remember an episode of Sergeant Streetwise, when it was still a photo-strip, not drawn, which had a scene in which a real psycho of a villain broke into a courtroom during a trial, carrying a shotgun. I remember one photo had him doing this really hilarious face, with a big grimacing grin, just like Jack Nicholson after he chopped through the door in The Shining.
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I'm fairly certain I saw the man who played the lead character in Joe Soap the photo strip, in an old episode of The Sweeney that I saw repeated not long ago. Quite a few of the fumetti (photo strip) models appeared on television, either in dramas or adverts. The guy that played Sgt.Streetwise was a fashion model and actor, appearing in EastEnders and mail order catalogues. The model that played Howard Harvey, the reporter on Doomlord's case appeared in various Doctor Who stories as a supporting artiste, most notably Colony in Space, Face of Evil, Kinda (one of the Kinda people) and Ressurection of the Daleks (the soldier that gets it in the neck from a Kaled mutant). |
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Well Dan Dare was in 2000AD for pretty much every issue from prog 1 but was then dropped abruptly mid story for some reason, it either being unpopular, squeezed out due to the merger with Tornado or just the impending return of the Eagle (80's version).
when the title Tiger was merged into the Eagle its lineage meant that the Eagle had ultimately merged with its original self. I also think you're confusing the Tiger comic for Lion. Eagle merged with Lion in 1969. Having said that Lion merged with Valiant and a few years later Valiant merged with Battle in 1976. Battle was merged and eventually swallowed by the Eagle in the late 1980s.
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Neither of the above, it was ATV (ITV) and their proposed television series (the James Fox and Rodney Bewes one) that scuppered the continuation of Dare in 2000AD. They wanted it pulled from the comic (not quite sure how they managed it, but I suppose money talks) as they didn't want it interfering with what was hopefully going to end up on screen, ie. the original 50s/60s version and ATV's licencing of a new associated comic and all the various merchandise that was planned.
I also think you're confusing the Tiger comic for Lion. Eagle merged with Lion in 1969. Having said that Lion merged with Valiant and a few years later Valiant merged with Battle in 1976. Battle was merged and eventually swallowed by the Eagle in the late 1980s. ![]() Quote:
It was the Battle merger which caused Eagle to absorb its original self. The lineage goes like this:
Eagle (1950) > Lion and Eagle (1969) > Valiant and Lion (1974) > Battle Picture Weekly and Valiant (1976) > Eagle and Battle (1988) |
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Hence his couple of times presenting TOTP in about 1987?
http://imgur.com/ub1EbkF http://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdo...d_have_got_to/ |
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I started getting this when it absorbed the MASK comic, I loved it. Main strips I remember are Dan Dare; Computer Warrior; Charlie's War; The 13th Floor; Doomlord and something about a bunch of vigilante skateboarders but can't remember what it was called.
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I started getting this when it absorbed the MASK comic, I loved it. Main strips I remember are Dan Dare; Computer Warrior; Charlie's War; The 13th Floor; Doomlord and something about a bunch of vigilante skateboarders but can't remember what it was called.
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That sounds like the Dark Angels comic strip.
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Dan Dare and Co. return for audio series from B7 Productions:
http://www.b7media.com/?p=3654 I like this company's audio drama re-imagining of the Blake's 7 series, starring Colin Salmon. I still have my recording of the first Dan Dare adventure 'Voyage to Venus' radio play that was adapted for BBC Radio for the 40th Anniversary of DD back in 1990. It's a great adaptation and if this new lot are anything like the BBC one, we're in for a treat. |
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