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[Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection]

Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection - Paperback, 128 pages, 21st November 2024

Rebellion presents three action-packed stories from the legendary Lion comic, all featuring the work master of chiaroscuro-style black-and-white art - José Antonio Muñoz.

In 1973, Muñoz worked on three short-lived strips in Lion. A Stitch in Time follows the adventures of a young boy named Stitch Cotton and his alien friend, Varl, after they steal a time machine from the sinister space-master, Mr. Universe. Lost in Limbo Land (written by 2000 AD regular, Chris Lowder), follows Barry Smith - a studious bookworm who is struck by lightning and flung into a world of Norse myth and legend. The final strip, Sark the Sleeper, sees a starship commander accidently woken from hypersleep by two boys who are completely unaware that they passengers flying through deep space in search of a new home.

Frank Pepper had a lengthy career writing for British comics. From the 1930s onwards he wrote for a wide variety of story papers including The Champion, Knockout, and The Comet. He is best known as the creator of Roy of the Rovers for Tiger and Captain Condor for Lion. Other well-known strips he worked on include The Spellbinder and Dan Dare. He died in 1988.

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I think I'll stick with the B&W, those colours are pretty... meh.

This.  I was really looking forward to this, but seeing all the bright purple and red, and single colour frames, etc, I'll give it a miss.

Rogue Toother.

I'm far, far away but didn't see any sign of a "Monster Fun" issue.  Picked up a "MAD" magazine comic and my daughter chose the Snoopy/Peanuts title amongst others.

[Rogue Hooper]

Rogue Hooper

The original owner of Hooper's Store didn't really die.  He's in a biochip, somewhere, out there.

This is his tale.

Okay, there's Doyle.  Where's Bodie?

I prompted the AI thusly: "Bodie and Doyle from The Professionals, but both dressed up as a Judge from the world of Judge Dredd."

And it did this:



(Or did I just take a photo at Dounreay-Con?)

Putting the "eye" in A.I.

Okay, there's Doyle.  Where's Bodie?

From 2000AD's X feed:

Coming Soon: a new Judge is hitting the streets of Mega-City One!

Wait... what the sneck?

Facing off against Judge Death, Judge Fear, Judge Mortis, and Judge Stix.

There's something about that 'young' Anderson that reminds me of the 'why can't they all be nice "2000AD, It's not for girls" advert.

Rogue finds out he's the clone of Tommy Cooper & heads out to save Nu Earth with the use of bad magic tricks

What, just like that?

"Bryan's current focus is The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor, a prequel to his Grandville series which features anthropomorphised steampunk characters."

Excellent news!

Further, stolen from Hibernia's Facebook page (and slightly edited by me):

Lost Treasures collects two complete stories from "Treasure" by masters of comic art, John M Burns and Jesús Blasco.

The first story 'Children of the Stars' tells the tale of the adventures of the Zexton family, as they set out for a new life on the planet Alpha Nine. The story is wonderfully drawn in its entirety by the late John M Burns, as Colin Brown of the John M Burns Facebook art group says "Children of the Stars is one of the best examples, (of his B&W work), being an artistic bridge between his first SF strip Space Family Robinson in 1966 and one of his most fondly remembered, Countdown in 1971."

The second strip featured is 'The Long Way Home', drawn in its entirety by Spanish comic master Jesús Blasco. It is one of his finest works. It charts the long odyssey of two children searching to find their parents across the crumbling Roman empire in fourth century Britain. Blasco's art on this story is simply amazing, some of the finest B&W artwork to be published in British comics. David Roach, in his preface says of the art, "Each page, each panel, is a masterclass in black and white composition, something that was always there is his work of course, but reached its peak here. But of course, I don't have to wax lyrical about how wonderful the strip is because, at last, you can read the whole thing here, collected at last. You're in for a treat."

This is a little different to our usual collections, but fitting well within our goal of shining a light on lesser known or forgotten masterpieces in British comics.  It has been an ambition of mine to reprint these two stories since stumbling across them in old copies of Treasure.

Lost Treasures is 92 pages, perfect bound, B&W, with an intro by me, David McDonald, and including a preface to The Long Way Home by comic artist and historian David Roach, detailing Blasco's work in British comics in the sixties and seventies.

This book is limited to 200 copies. Get the best-looking comic collection of 2024 while you can!

[Lost Treasures]

Hibernia's new title, Lost Treasures includes "Children of the Stars" by John M. Burns.  It also reprints "The Long Way Home" by Jesús Blasco.  92 pages.

[Lost Treasures]

Has Hibernia's new title, Lost Treasures been mentioned anywhere yet?

It reprints "The Long Way Home" by Jesús Blasco and "Children of the Stars" by John M. Burns.  92 pages.