The Yellowed Pages: Spellbound - Complete Issue 1 - 25th September 1976

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Spellbound - Complete Issue 1 - 25th September 1976

Here we present the very first Issue of Spellbound - a creepy comic for girls and incredibly rare!

And here is a scan of the actual Pendant given away free with Issue 1 which I still have!

7 comments:

Paddy Brown said...: Very nice. Lovely art too - shame the artists are anonymous. Is that maybe Esteban Maroto on "When the Mummy Walks"?

I think what DC Thomson were doing in the 70s deserves more attention. The Pat Mills stable at IPC tends to get written up as if it happened in isolation, but Battle was a response to DC Thomson's Warlord, and I'd venture that Misty's supernatural approach may have been at least partly inspired by Spellbound. 2000AD's dynamic page layouts owed a lot to both of them. Thomsons had nicer printing, too.

Anyway, good on you for unearthing all this stuff.; March 1, 2011 2:12 PM
Captain Storm said...: My pleasure! And yes you are quite right in your assertion of the comparative battle of the comics between DC Thomson and IPC. If one brought out a new war comic , the other would follow suit.Not sure about the artist though,

sincerely,

The Cap.; March 1, 2011 2:47 PM
paulhd said...: Great stuff!
That 2nd strip, Spectre From The Flame is almost certainly the artwork of Brian Lewis.
Wouldn't swear to it, but SUpercats could be by Enrique Romreo.
Thanks for posting, hope to see more!; March 1, 2011 3:15 PM
Mark Kardwell said...: I'm sure my sister got this. And I'm sure Warlord's stablemate Bullet gave away a very similar pendant, only with a stylised "B" in the centre, which I still have somewhere.

And yes, I remember the tit-for-tat in the '70s between DC-T & IPC well. Though I'm sure they were at it throughout the 60s too with the humour comics wars.; March 1, 2011 3:25 PM
Captain Storm said...: Supercats is indeed by Romero. Also pretty sure the pendant in Bullet was a "Fireball" pendant alluding to the main character - Fireball - apparently a nephew of Peter Flint of Warlord fame.; March 2, 2011 11:59 AM
Mark Kardwell said...: That's it! He's wearing that pendant in those fumetti pages in your next entry! Hah! He looks like Bob Carolgees!; March 3, 2011 2:13 PM
Oscar Dowson said...: Love the Supercats. Any chance of giving us issue two? I want to know how to 'Be a Supercat!'; November 25, 2011 4:00 AM

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