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Phil-Comics has some 400 listings in this weekend's eBay comics auction, including several rarely seen free gifts, single issue and batches of comics. Here are just some top picks...

Phil-Comics eBay Auction Picks

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Phil-Comics have listed their latest round of auctions on eBay, with bidding ending next weekend, and there are, as ever, a few British comic rarities on offer.

Rare Free Comic Gifts, rare printers proofs, offered in latest Phil-Comics auction

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The Early Work of John M. Burns, for Lion - "The Amazing Adventures of Mr. X"

What may be examples of some of the earliest illustration work by comic artist and illustrator John M. Burns, who died last month, for the weekly adventure comic, Lion, in the late 1950s, have been brought to the attention of downthetubes

What may be examples of some of the earliest illustration work by comic artist and illustrator John M. Burns, who died last month, for the weekly adventure comic, Lion, in the late 1950s, have been brought to the attention of downthetubes. John M. Burns in his studio. Photo via Paul Duncan John was one of the last surviving British artists who began working in the 1950s through Link Studios,…

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Comic Creator Spotlight: TV Century 21 artist Rab Hamilton... or should that be Robert?

Comic Creator Spotlight: TV Century 21 artist Rab Hamilton… or should that be Robert?

Our recent coverage of art by artist Rab Hamilton on offer from Phil-Comics – part of Jim Baikie’s art collection – has unexpectedly unearthed an anomaly in his entry on the very useful online resource, Lambiek Comiclopedia, Currently on offer are two pages of the Valentine strip “Ann and Pam”, part of a longer story published in the Issue over dated 14th March 1964, a lot that erroneously gives…

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Lost British Comic Projects: SCOOPS, a Newspaper Comic

Lost British Comic Projects: SCOOPS, a Newspaper Comic

In January’s initial downthetubes tribute to the late Ron Smith, pages of original artwork – that had earlier appeared on eBay – were presumed to have been for the artist’s own speculative adventure comic project. This confusion arose from the related paperwork, involving Ron Holland, who – rather than the renowned 2000AD illustrator – was the unlikely entrepreneur behind the embryonic proposal.

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When Ron Smith drew for Eagle

When Ron Smith drew for Eagle

2000AD and DC Thomson artist Ron Smith may not be an artist you would associate with the original Eagle comic, best known for “Dan Dare”, created by Frank Hampson and his team, “Luck of the Legion” and many more incredible strips. But in fact Ron was on the of the artists on the weekly comic.

The “Sporting Personalities” features by “Ross” have been attributed to just about every well-known Eagle

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Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Nine

Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part Nine

Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a Creative Visionary… but that, Roger Perry argues in his extensive biography of the man which continues here on downthetubes, is only due to him having utilised the ideas of others. Moving from the sublime to the ridiculous, Roger recalls how Men Only was given a new lease of life – and Leonard Matthews…

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Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews - Part One

Eagle Daze: The Life and Times of Leonard James Matthews – Part One

Islington in the early 1900s, Whiteleys today and 1930s “Tea Bands” Leonard Matthews, General Managing Editor of Fleetway and the Eagle Group of Comics, was a “Creative Visionary”… but, Roger Perry argues in his extensive biography of the man which begins today on downthetubes, only due to having utilised the ideas of others… 1914 Leonard Matthews. Photo courtesy Steve Holland Leonard James…

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