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Frank Bellamy and Countdown comic
I am not scared sometimes to include oblique references to Frank Bellamy if I think it does some good. For example Steve Holland had published his latest UK comic index: Countdown to TV Action.Bear...
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Frank Bellamy and the first parachute jump!
So someone is talking to you about Leonardo da Vinci's parachute design and we agree we don't know whether anyone has tried it out, and then get to wondering, but who was the first person to jump with...
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Original art for sale: Comic Book Auctions - Thunderbirds
Original art TV21 #213 Page 1 Comic Book Auctions Limited have an original Frank Bellamy for sale. Their description:Thunderbirds original artwork (1969) by Frank Bellamy from TV 21 No 213 Leaving...
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Frank Bellamy and the Story World War One
Have you had enough of World War One nostalgia? Let me get my bit out of the way then. I have just finished watching the excellent "37 days" production by the BBC which was broadcast in March this...
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Frank Bellamy and the Cartoon Museum and Supermarionation
TV21 #214 Page 10TV21 #214 Page 11Richard Sheaf kindly alerted me to this news item that might have passed you byThe original art from TV21 #213 (1st of the two pages appearing in that issue of the...
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Frank Bellamy's MANHUNT reprinted
Tuesday 4 November 2014 © Daily MirrorMartin Baines is a great guy as I'm sure I've been telling you since 2011, when the Daily Mirror newspaper first reprinted Frank Bellamy's run of 'Garth' stories...
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Frank Bellamy and Egmont Thunderbirds reprints
Collage from Volume 5I have finally got copies of the books which Egmont list as being published in September and Egmont themselves haven't caught up yet by adding them to their Classic Comics website....
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Frank Bellamy in the Eagle Times
YOU CAN VIEW THE WHOLE ARTICLE! READ ON!! Alan Vince, who I first came across when he interviewed Frank Hampson (Dan Dare's talented creator) in Doug Gifford's fondly remembered Thing fanzine, has...
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Frank Bellamy and Winston Churchill's copy of "The Happy Warrior"
Frank Bellamy's art for "The Happy Warrior"David Slinn let me know that Churchill's own copy of the leather bound "Happy Warrior" strip is up for sale in the latest Sotheby's auction : Daughter of...
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Frank Bellamy and Place of the Gods
IT'S CHRISTMAS! so my dear friend Martin Baines, here's a treat for you. You asked what this looked like and I've gone to town for you for Christmas!Launched on 25 May 1940, Reveille was originally the...
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Original Art on Heritage - Thunderbirds x 3
John Freeman on the Downthetubes and David Roach on Facebook alerted me to the fact there are three pieces of Bellamy 'Thunderbirds' original artwork going to auction in the new year.The bidding at...
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Frank Bellamy and Gerry Anderson
Christmas gave me a chance to catch up on some reading - can I recommend a book to you?Nice endpapers!In a previous blog article I reviewed the Egmont reprints. This time I want to say a bit about the...
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Frank Bellamy and a T-Shirt Rocket Design
T-SHIRT ROCKET DESIGN BY FRANK BELLAMY Rocket designIn the 1970s, after a constant weekly deadline, Bellamy left regular comics work and took up illustrating 'Garth', in the Daily Mirror on a daily...
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Frank Bellamy original art on Heritage: Garth: People of the Abyss and...
I recently mentioned Heritage Auctions in America are selling 3 pieces of Bellamy Thunderbird artwork and wanted to let you know that they now also have a Garth strip for auction as well as another...
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Frank Bellamy and Clifford Makin's copy of "The Happy Warrior"
Recently we saw one of three unique copies of the reprint "The Happy Warrior" come up at auction at Sotheby. It had an estimate of of £500-£900 but the price bid for it ended up as £3,750 (hammer price...
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Frank Bellamy and Home Notes magazine
I don't think you'll enjoy this post on Frank Bellamy. Remember I warned you! Home Notes 27 July 1951 Home Notes, which was first published in 1894 by C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd., on every Friday...
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Frank Bellamy and "How the West was won"
Radio Times 22 Dec 1973- 4 Jan 1974 p.27I can't tell you how many westerns I've watched in my lifetime, but my dad, who loved western novels, and films died in 1982 and we watched loads together. But...
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Frank Bellamy for German-speaking fans
Hans Kiesl (based in Nuremberg) wrote to me recently and shared two pieces of information I thought worth sharing further.Mill's GazetteApparently Hans says that the Garth strips included in the above...
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Frank Bellamy and Monty Python
Cover by Lolly HoneysettBert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls was published in 1974 during the period in which I would recount the previous evening's Monty Python TV programme on the way to school....
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Frank Bellamy and Pictorial History Book (Part Two)
David Jackson has done a ton of work (and obviously has better eyesight than me!) in identifying signatures on pages of artwork in the previously mentioned Pictorial History Bookin which Bellamy is...
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