August 6th 1972 -Comicon ’72 – How Was It For Them Then?

In iT #136, Ges Cox painted a picture of the first day of Comicon ’72: “The downstairs suite of the Waverley Hotel is packed with freaks, odd looking people in their Saturday casuals and straight comic collectors, all milling round surrounded by piles of old posters, tables which groan under the weight of old Marvels, […]

July 25th 1972 – The Comic Books We Never Saw

Heaven only knows how many fans were buying UK comics zines in the early 1970s. A few hundred? Somewhere in the (very) low four figures? Whatever the figure was, it was tiny, and the same names would often appear across a number of different fanzines as writers and correspondents. In and around London especially, there […]