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You'll find nearly 200 listings of vintage comics and related items in the latest Phil-Comics eBay auction, which closes next weekend, including some Doctor Who gems, rare free gifts and original art, too.

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Milo Manara art, with story by Hugo Pratt, livens bidding in this week's Catawiki International Comic Art Auction

Milo Manara art, with story by Hugo Pratt, livens bidding in this week’s Catawiki International Comic Art Auction

A sparsity of British comic art in last week’s Catawiki International Comic Art Auction is more than made up for in this week’s offering, ending Thursday 17th March 2022, with work by Ron Forbes, Bill Lacey, Don Lawrence on offer. Beyond the British comics work, there’s also some smashing art by Milo Manara up for sale… A splash page from the story “Captain Condor and the Outlawed Planet” for…

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Don’t miss out! “House of Daemon”, “Tower King” collections get another limited reprinting

Don’t miss out! “House of Daemon”, “Tower King” collections get another limited reprinting

Hibernia Comics has announced another, very limited reprint of two of its sought after collections, The Tower King and The House of Daemon, alongside continuing work on their fantastic The Fleetway Files project. Both collections are taken from the pages of the 1980s Eagle, and both collections quickly sold out on their first printing – and subsequent reprints have quickly been snapped up,…

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Hibernia Comics announces space hero “Captain Condor” collection, featuring art by Brian Lewis

Hibernia Comics announces space hero “Captain Condor” collection, featuring art by Brian Lewis

Hibernia Comics has announced the third book in its Fleetway Files series – a stunning, highly regarded Captain Condor story, “The Push Button Planet”, written by Frank S. Pepper and drawn by Brian Lewis. The opening episode of the Captain Condor story “The Push Button Planet”, first published in Lion, cover dated 30th December 1961 Tentatively scheduled for release this autumn, the story sees…

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Creating Comics: An Archive Interview with Roy of the Rovers co-creator Frank S. Pepper

Creating Comics: An Archive Interview with Roy of the Rovers co-creator Frank S. Pepper

The Continuing Adventures of Frank S. Pepper

This feature offers the full text of an interview Andrew Darlington conducted with the legendary writer Frank S. Pepper, extracted from a long series of correspondence, exactly as it was published in the ‘alternative’ arts-magazine Ludds Millno.9 in September 1973. Andrew has resisted the temptation of amending or updating the text, but some minor…

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British Comic Heroes: Lion's "Captain Condor"

British Comic Heroes: Lion’s “Captain Condor”

Dan Dare, star of Eagle and early 2000AD, whose adventures extend to radio, award-winning adventures and more, is a British comics hero up there with Roy of the Rovers, Judge Dredd, Fungus the Bogeyman, Rupert the Bear and Dennis the Menace, in terms of public awareness beyond comics fandom. But at the height of his success in the 1950s he spawned many rivals – including Captain Condor, lead hero…

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Why Rebellion's acquisition of IPC's "classic comics" is great news for fans

Why Rebellion’s acquisition of IPC’s “classic comics” is great news for fans

David McDonald of Hibernia Comics, publishers of a number of limited edition collections and Archive books, assesses the impact Rebellion’s purchase of the IPC comics archive from TI Media and what it may mean for fans of British comics…

The news last week that 2000AD publisher Rebellion bought all of the pre-1969 Amalgamated Press/IPC properties was very welcome.

These properties, along with the…

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CAPTAIN CONDOR from LION comic 1963, artist unknown.