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Gulliver Guinea-Pig visits London. This little masterpiece by Gordon Hutchings is from the centre pages of PLAYHOUR for 12th September 1964:
Front cover of WHAM! No. 104 – in shops this week in 1966, celebrating the paper’s second birthday:
No one drew humorous battle scenes better than Leo Baxendale. This one is from Minnie the Minx in The Beano book 1962
I’ve written an extra-long feature about GALAXUS from BUSTER comic in 1966-74. It is due to appear in the soon-to-be-released volume of Comic Scene History of Comics for 1966 and covers the whole run of 380 episodes in the weeklies, plus all episodes in the annuals and specials😊
SPARKY cover with today’s date in 1967, starring The Moonsters by Bill Ritchie:
Gulliver Guinea-Pig from PLAYHOUR nursery comic with today’s date in 1963. The illustrator was Gordon Hutchings who had taken over from Philip Mendoza in January 1961:
The cover of the first issue of THE TOPPER had today’s date in 1953. I’d love to show it but I don’t have in my collection, so the cover with the same date in 1959 will have to do… 😊