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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2019 13:28:51 GMT -5
Forty years ago this month, Starblazer, published by DC Thomson, began publication. It would run for 281 issues. Here's the cover for the first issue:  Pretty sure I had this one:  Final issue:  DC Thomson also published Commando. Like Commando, Starblazer was published in a small format (A5-sized). Anyone remember this? I became aware of it in the late 80s and picked up a few until its demise in '91. |
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Post by chaykinstevens on Apr 12, 2019 18:04:25 GMT -5
I had a few of the early issues, but can't recall much about the stories. Starblazer and Commando were both smaller than A5. Grant Morrison wrote and drew #15 before he was famous, the Argentine artists Enrique Alcatena and Alberto Saichann drew several issues, and the great Ian Kennedy contributed numerous covers. I think Mike McMahon drew one issue, but I've never seen it.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 12, 2019 23:53:46 GMT -5
Forty years ago this month, Starblazer, published by DC Thomson, began publication. It would run for 281 issues. Here's the cover for the first issue: Pretty sure I had this one: Final issue: DC Thomson also published Commando. Like Commando, Starblazer was published in a small format (A5-sized). Anyone remember this? I became aware of it in the late 80s and picked up a few until its demise in '91. The expression on that guy's face in the last one makes me think the horns stick in, on the inside of the helmet! |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 6:42:38 GMT -5
I've got to learn paper sizes. I will Google.  If I have it right, A4 would be TIME Magazine, right? A3 is bigger. Is Commando A6-sized? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 13, 2019 9:23:09 GMT -5
I've got to learn paper sizes. I will Google. If I have it right, A4 would be TIME Magazine, right? A3 is bigger. Is Commando A6-sized? A4 is about 8.3x11.7 (in), A6 is 4.1x5.8; or, about digest size, for the US. A3 is11.7x16.5 (slightly wider but shorter than standard 11x17 Tabloid, in the US). I sawa picture of a Commando issue, once, and I do think it was more like a digest. The Italian comic Diabolik and other fumetti were also done digest size. |
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 13, 2019 10:56:16 GMT -5
Forty years ago this month, Starblazer, published by DC Thomson, began publication. It would run for 281 issues. Here's the cover for the first issue: Any interiors from the first issue? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 12:06:07 GMT -5
Afraid not, couldn't find any (and don't have any personal copies).
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Post by chaykinstevens on Apr 13, 2019 13:59:38 GMT -5
Any interiors from the first issue?  |
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Post by tarkintino on Apr 13, 2019 15:58:09 GMT -5
Thanks, chaykinstevens!
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Post by Confessor on Apr 18, 2019 7:18:40 GMT -5
I remember seeing Starblazer on the newsagent's shelves as a kid from time to time, but it wasn't as common a sight as Commando (which were the same weird 7" × 5½" size). I did sometimes buy Commando comics, but my comic buying funds usually went on Star Wars Weekly, 2000 AD, or various Marvel superhero reprints. I only ever bought one issue of Starblazer, I think...despite being into sci-fi and space fantasy as a kid. It was issue #111 "Space Ghost", and I still have it in my collection.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 18, 2019 10:02:46 GMT -5
I've just remembered that another title in the same format was Football Picture Story Monthly:  |
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Post by Confessor on Apr 18, 2019 19:43:50 GMT -5
I've just remembered that another title in the same format was Football Picture Story Monthly: Wow! I've never seen or heard of that before. I've always hated football though, so this would've been nice of no interest to me. |
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