Boys Adventure Comics: Belinda

Showing posts with label Belinda. Show all posts

21 December 2021

UPDATED: Belinda and the bomb alley boys!

A while ago (here) I looked at vintage Daily Mirror newspaper strip reprints. Most of these are rare volumes that are hard to acquire these days. I was therefore delighted to snag these images from ebay the other day.

Updated material is in red

The book is in poor condition but it's a rare chance to see inside this book...

For all (???) you Belinda completionists out there here are the strip references in the volume - you'll see that it's not a sequential run...

C259-260

C262

C264-5

C267-71

C273-74

C276-79

C282-83

C286-88

C290-94

C298-300

C303

C305

C309

D1-3

D8-10

D12

D16-19

D21-22

D24

D26-27

D29

D31-32

D34-35

D37

D39

D41

D43

D47-48

D51-54

D56

D60

D62-64

D67

D74

D77

D79-81

D86-90

D92

D94-95

D97-98

D10

D102

D104

D106-107

...So that's 90 strips in total

There's also this Belinda book to collect...

...and this has 96 strips in - again it's not a sequential run, in fact you get the following strips...

E220-23

E225-35

E238-40

E242-49

E252

E255

E260-62

E264-66

E268-76

E279

E281-82

E284

E289-91

E306-07

F3-4

F6-11

F14

F17-19

F22

F27

F32-38

F41-42

F44

F46-48

F50-52

F56-59

F61

F65-66

F71-72

F81

23 June 2021

Belinda and the bomb alley boys!

The book is in poor condition but it's a rare chance to see inside this book...

There's also this Belinda book to collect

31 October 2020

Vintage 'Daily Mirror' newspaper strip reprints

Following on from my post earlier this week (here) about Captain Reilly-Ffoul I thought I'd see what other vintage newspaper strip reprints are out there under the 'Mirror features publication' banner.

This is what I've found so far, do let me know if you've come across any other titles...

Jane on the sawdust trail

Jane's summer idle!

Garth - man of mystery

Belinda - shooting star

Belinda and the bomb alley boys!

The last 3 images are taken from the brilliant dandare.info site

Patsy's reflections

Patsy's Christmas reflections

Patsy's

The sly, sinister, scurvy adventures of Captail Reilly-FFoul

29 October 2020

Just Jake - by Bernard Graddon

I've enjoyed collecting newspaper strip reprints for some time now (partly because they seem even more under-appreciated than 'normal' British comics do) and I was pleased to recently pick up this reprint from the Daily Mirror

I'd come across this slightly 'puppet' like front cover on another Daily Mirror reprint...Belinda in 'shooting star'...the effect is slightly...odd.

Anyway back to Captain Reilly-Ffoul...a quick look at Wikipedia (here) tells me that the strip ran in the Daily Mirror from 1938-1952 and it was drawn by Bernard Graddon. The strip is...

A satire of dramatic films and other comic strips, Just Jake depicted events at the village of Much Cackling in the county of Gertshire. The prime character, Captain A.R.P. Reilly-Ffoull, squire of Arntwee Hall, was parody of early movie villains. He was aided by his servant/butler Eric and the local serf, Titus Tallow. Jake, the original hero of the title, seldom appeared after the first year. Other characters were schoolgirl Missy, old crone Maida Grannit and Cactus, a black man.

(having seen a drawing of Cactus I can confidently say that this strip isn't going to get reprinted anytime soon)

Perhaps the most memorable feature of the strip is the fact that one of the captain's exclamations 'stap me!' was used by Dennis Gifford as the title for his early work on the British newspaper comic strip...

The book was dedicated as follows..."For Pandy - and in memory of Captain A.R.P. Reilly-Ffoul, F.F.I. and bar" so the strip was clearly a favourite of Gifford's.

See this post for my listing of Denis Gifford's comic related books.

Anyway, back to the captain...here are a few pages from the book that give you an idea of the strip.

The book starts at strip reference D244 ('Educating Eric') so I don't think this can be the first ever strip. The strip runs to D308 and then there's another strip that runs from E1 to E37.

32 pages plus covers in all. Black & white artwork throughout in a slightly not quite square format.

Add caption

Search This Blog