One of the last-gasp efforts from the legendary studio was a big-budget comic book adaptation – but it failed to get off the ground.
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Comic Books Espana
An impressive catalogue of graphic novels from Barcelona.
Have Yourself A Reprobate Christmas
A collection of our greatest festive articles and galleries.
The Hallucinogenic And Witchy Pleasures Of After Blue
Bertrand Mandico’s psychedelic science fiction drama is a glorious pop culture-laden trip into sexual expression, liberation and occultism.
Ephemeral Pleasures: Your Comic Book Collection Is Worthless
You are probably not going to retire on the proceeds of selling a comic book collection.
The Flash Gordon Novels Of The 1970s
The series of novels based around the legendary comic strip sci-fi hero Flash Gordon that appeared – with very different covers – in the US and UK during the Seventies.
Holy Frank Zappa! Burt Ward’s Oddball Recording Career
The eccentric combination of the Boy Wonder and the Mother of Invention, as Burt Ward records a single with Frank Zappa.
Vintage Monster Magazine Ads
The too-good-to-be-true monster magazine ads of the 1960s and 70s.
Left For Dead: How A PR Debacle Destroyed The Legend Of The Lone Ranger
The bad decisions and public relations misfires that doomed a big-budget Western comic book movie to ridicule and obscurity.
Harmful Publications: The British Horror Comic Scare
The story of Britain’s first horror moral panic and the odd role that the Communist Party played in it.
The Return Of Octobriana – The Revolutionary Russian Superhero
Jim Rugg reinvents a classic – if little known – comic book character, with a fluorescent 1970s vibe.
Mail Order Monkeys
The strange era when kids could buy live monkeys through the post via comic book ads.