Celebration 2016

Celebration was once again in London and not to be missed. Particular highlights for me were the Thrawn reveal, getting up close to that bad ass Shore trooper armour and finally getting to meet Daniel Logan who's autograph has eluded me for years.

Heroquest

As the evenings are starting to draw in i have once again been bitten by the painting bug. For years now i have planned to paint a whole set of mini's from Heroquest. Over the last week i have finally finished all four Chaos Warriors. Here they are plus the others i have finished. Im hoping to pick up the pace this winter as it has taken a couple of years on and off so far.

Chaos Warriors

Chaos Warrior

The Barbarian

Orc

Zombie

Skeleton

Who the hell is Blue Five?

From the original Marvel comics adaptation of Star Wars.

FOOM

I have decided to try and collect all 22 issues of Marvels fan club magazine FOOM. FOOM stands for Friends Of Ol' Marvel and the magazine ran from 1973 to 1978. Heres what i have so far.

Issue 6 cover art unknown (if anyone knows please comment).

Issue 8 with cover art by John Romita and back cover by John Byrne.

Issue 9 with cover by Jim Starlin and back cover by John Byrne? (i think).

Issue 12 with cover by John Buscema front and back? (again, i think).

Issue 15 with wraparound cover by Gene Colan.

For more about FOOM go here:

                 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOOM

                 http://bronzeagebabies.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=foom

Guardians of the Galaxy 1 Midtown Comics Variant.

Look what i got in the post this morning.

Beautiful J Scott Campbell cover, takes me back to the wildstorm days.

Transformers and Action Force

Marvel U.K. ran an Action Force and Transformers crossover story called Ancient Relics in 1987.
Written by Simon Furman and drawn by Geoff Senior part 1 featured in Transformers 125 with the other four parts featuring in Action Force 24-27. For any Americans out there, Action Force was the U.K. name for G.I. Joe back in the day.

It featured a Marvel UK created character called Centurion...

And some great scenes such as Megatron throwing around puny human tanks...

and a Grimlock vs Megatron rumble.

Most issues of Action Force weekly also featured classic Transformer toy ads on the back cover.

For more on the Ancient Relics storyline go here http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ancient_Relics!

And for more on Centurion http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Centurion_(Marvel)

X-MEN signed by Romita Jnr ?

I have a copy of Uncanny X-Men 196 that came as part of an ebay lot a couple of years ago. It is signed on the cover and page 1 "John Romita Jnr 85"

The seller made no mention of the comic being signed, which seems odd. I have checked against images of JRJR's signature online and for my money its the real deal.

So now i have a 95% genuine signed book by my favourite old school Marvel artist. 

Brian Bolland Forbidden Planet Art!

Some great Brian Bolland artwork featured on a 1982 Forbidden Planet advert.

Burger King Empire Strikes Back Cards and Stickers.

In 1980 Burger King ran some Star Wars promotions for the release of The Empire Strikes Back.  One of these was the Everybody Wins scratch card game in which the top prize was an Atari Video Computer system. The most common prize was a strip of trading cards with scenes from Star Wars and ESB. There were 36 cards in all.

18 from The Empire Strikes Back:

And 18 from Star Wars:

Another promo was The Super Scene Collection Stamps, which consisted of a free fold out chart to stick the 48 collectable stamps on.

For more on Burger King Star Wars promotions try these sites:

The Star Wars Collectors Archive
Jawa Trader UK

X-Men vans by Corgi.

These were released in 1992-93 as a "limited edition" of 5100 and came in a box featuring the cover art from issue 16 of the X-Men by Jack Kirby.

 

The two vans are a Morris J van and a Bedford CA van.

The Morris J features art from issue 3, the X-Men versus The Blob.

The Bedford CA has art from issue 8, the X-Men versus Unus the Untouchable.