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Thursday, 6 February 2025

Yes. I AM A Paste Up Boy (I may be taking liberties using the word "boy")


There are certain advantages to paste ups.  For instance it makes you think even more about a page design.  Due to my eye problem I draw on A4 so I draw a panel or two or even three on a page and then cut them up to place them on an A3.

Fitting panels onto A3 means that there might be a lot of waste space on a page so it gives you the opportunity to add extra art or even add some type of background image. I do not work with a script and I do not do thumbnail layout pages. Thinking as you are creating means that you solve a lot of problems out and that helps in future books.

Just do not be scared to try an old style method that does not include a computer -just go "free style" and you'll either find it terrifying or fun!

Oh that cover illo I credited wrong. It was drawn by Ben R Dilworthbased on the strip but brother Mike did do the colour work!









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Wednesday, 5 February 2025

That Time In 1987 When The Avenger and Purple Hood Were in the Sewers

The Avenger had teamed up with international crime fighter the Purple Hood a couple of times -the first was when both "bumped into each other" while tracking down Intercrime in 1985. Terror Tunnels took place down in the sewer system below Bristol after a series of grisly deaths.

The sewerage network in Bristol, UK is made up of thousands of kilometres of sewers, pumping stations, and water recycling centers. Wessex Water manages the sewerage system for Bristol and the surrounding area. 

Just who or what was committing the crimes was never found out at the time as the fella who was inking the strip was another to just up and stop communicating.  However, decades later, in The Green Skies just what was going on was explained.

You want to know who or what? Easy -buy a copy of the series because I do not do spoilers but it was all tide up in a nice forest green bow for everyone.




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The Dark Night Detectives: Everything Is Under Control and The Ministry of Safety

  With the way things are going at the moment these two books might be considered "topical" by some.


 
A4
Black & White
50 Pages
Price: £6.00 (excl. VAT)
Ships in 3–5 business days
 http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-dark-night-detectives/paperback/product-21975325.html

Its a world where if you stand up for what is right you'll be lucky if its just a beating you get.

A world where people are starving (if poor) and the rich live in luxury.

A world where you have to have birthing Rights.

Where sacrificing someone to the Devil is acceptable -as long as they pay the wages.

A world where if you DO NOT take that bribe you WILL be made an example of.

This shows off Dilworth's skill at writing dark and brooding stories with a hint of satire but just too true to modern life!  It also shows his skill as an artistic story teller and designer.  Some of Ben Dilworth's most provoking and dark work in ages.


 

A4

28pp

B&W

£7.00

https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/the-dark-night-detectives-no-2-november-2020/paperback/product-7jr8g8.html

Its a world where if you stand up for what is right you'll be lucky if its just a beating you get. A world where people are starving (if poor) and the rich live in luxury. A world where you have to have birthing Rights. Where sacrificing someone to the Devil is acceptable -as long as they pay the wages. A world where if you DO NOT take that bribe you WILL be made an example of. 

This was the dystopian world set up by Ben Dilworth in Small Press publications in the 1980 and some strips in Black Tower books and led on to The Dark Night Detectives: Everything Is Under Control. 

Now Detective Inspector Black and Special Constable (Community Policing) Jones are back and it is still dark, bleak and depressingly familiar in a way.

 The ending will make you ask more than a few questions.

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Black Tower Comics and Books - local Shipping NO International Shipping

 


To make it clear: 

1.  if you order a book from the online store it does not involve international shipping. Books are printed in your region -that's how print on demand works.  

2.  The price of the book should be shown in your own currency.

3.  Obviously your local postal rates apply and there are options for tracked, special delivery and untracked (the least expensive) postage from within your region.

Ordered in your region, printed in your region and delivered by the postal system in your region.  It could not be more simple.

One important thing to note is that third party sellers will state "post free" and that is a lie. You often pay 30-75% more on a book ordered through a third party seller than from the online store. The reason is because the third party seller HAS to buy from the online store and the selling price usually covers two postal payments -0from store to them and then to you.  

People have purchased from third party sellers and not gotten their books or have had to wait over a month for them to arrive. At that point they contact me and it is all very simple: they tried to rob me of a sale and bought a book at a far more expensive price because they read "post free". That is important because if you buy from a third party seller you are removing the small profit I make on a book. Also, ordering from the online store is not just cheaper but, even though it has never happened since I started selling in 2009,  I can actually look into why you have not had your book delivered. Third party seller -your tough luck.

Support the creator and publisher not third party scammers.


I have asked to clarify which countries books can be ordered from as I know someone in Hong Kong and China were interested and it looks like you can order from there. According to the  print company:

We do NOT ship to the following countries/territories:


  • Belarus

  • Region of Crimea

  • Cuba

  • Iran

  • Johnston Island

  • North Korea

  • Russia

  • Saint Pierre Et Miquelon

  • South Sudan

  • Sudan

  • Syria

  • Republic Of Turkmenistan

  • Ukraine

  • Wake Islands

  • Yemen Arab Republic

  • Venezuela

Hope that helps!
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Johnny Neg

 


Writer/Artist:Ben R Dilworth
Characters created by Terry Hooper-Scharf
A4
B&W
40pp
£7.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/johnny-neg-no-1-july-2020/paperback/product-vmv2ev.html


Ben Dilworth gives his own spin on the character Johnny Neg: a hard-boiled detective in a unique universe. 

What does a detective sound like in a place where everything can -and has- happened? A decadent place where the end of the world is assured to occur? 

1984 meets the Apocalypse on steroids! 

Text stories include: "Let's Talk It Over", "BrainDrainer", "Stamp" and "StokeHeadDead" 

Strips include: "Mutoids", "Home", "Mob Rools", "Love Robot", "Suicide Balls" and "The Ghost Bar" 

And for added delectation --there is a GoBo insert (you DO know who GoBo is, right?
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Black Tower Gold - British Golden Age Comics

 

  Going by what people are asking now IF you can find the comics reprinted in these collections, just the comics in the first volume would cost you around  £200/.$210.  The complete collection -for which in a number of instances there are absolutely no copies being sold-  would cost you around £500+

Which means you get some rare gems to see for more than cut price!



A4
B&W
94 pages
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

For the first time in 60 years some of the lost gems of the British Golden Age of Comics are reprinted!
Scanned and cleaned to the best standard possible -see The Phantom Raider, Ace Hart, Secrets Of The Super Sargasso Sea, Phantom Maid, Electrogirl, Skybolt Kid, Wonder Boy, Dene Vernon, Professor Atom and many, many others!
Its fun and action all the way -The British Golden Age shines through!

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A4
Paperback
B&W
68 pp
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

The second collection of British 1940s comic strips featuring Maxwell The Mighty, Slicksure, Iron Boy,Alfie, Ace Hart and more.
Featuring the work of Golden Age Greats Alf Farningham and Harry Banger.
Specifically designed to feature more humour than the previous volume this should be a treat for all comic collectors.

Reprinting the full content of The Meteor and The Rocket Comics from 1948.
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A4
Paperback
B&W
68 pages
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

This is the third volume in Black Tower Comics’ collection of Golden Age British comic strips that have not seen print for 50-60 years!
Included in this volume is a bumper crop of Ace Hart:The Atom Man strips and an article on the character.
A complete 1949 comic in Smugglers Creek; Denis Gifford’s Search For The Secret City and science fiction legend Bryan Berry’s rendition of Kid Carter -Teenage Tec! A must for all comic collectors and historians.

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A4
Paperback
B&W
86 pages
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

The fourth volume of this series features some great finds of the lost era of British comics:
Ace Hart The Atom Man, Captain Comet -Space Ranger, TNT Tom, Clive Lynn -Space Reporter, Superstooge, "The White Gorilla", Atomic Tuffy, Cast Iron Chris, Sigord.....
and many others!

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A4
Paperback
B&W
68pp
Price: £8.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

William McCail’s 1940 classic is reprinted for the first time in 80 years.

If you are into British Golden Age comics or early comics in general this is for you.
Robert Lovett rises from the dead and finds he has some startling powers: deaths follow, as does a Scotland Yard detective determined to track down the mysterious killer!

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A4
Paperback
B&W
35 pages
Price: £5.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

Yes! Now at issue 6 and bringing you more lost strips of the British Golden Age of Comics.There's a collection of strips featuring non other than TNT Tom and one of the weirdest UKGA characters -the Iron Boy.

Ever heard of Ingy Roob? Or his pet "Stretchy"? You will have if you read this issue.How about Dennis M. Readers Cat Girl?

Two other UK comics are reprinted in full, both from 1946 and the only issues ever published:Lucky Dice and The Fudge.

Black Tower -keeping UK comics history alive!

And if you want all of the above in one huge volume then....



A4
Paperback
B&W
405 pages
Price: £25.00 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days

Combining volumes 1-6 (still available as individual issues but that works out far more expensive) of the BT Golden Age British Comics Collections (minus adverts) this is the ultimate for any Golden Age collector or historian or just plain comic lover.

Features....
*Ace Hart 
*TNT Tom 
*Electrogirl 
*Wonderman 
*The Phantom Raider 
*Captain Comet 
*Acro Maid 
*Phantom Maid 
*Dene Vernon 
*The Iron Boy 
*The Boy Fish 
*Professor Atom 
*The Tornado
 *Powerman 
*Wonder Boy 
*Slicksure  
*Masterman 
*Dane Jerrus 
*Alfie 
*Tiny Tod  
*Maxwell The Mighty 
*Back From The Dead 
*Zeno At The Earth's Core 
*Colonel Mastiff  
*Ally Sloper  
*Super Injun  
*Super Porker  (oo-er, no, Madam, ooh), 
*Tiger Man  
*King Of The Clouds  
*Captain Comet 

and MANY others!

Plus text features defining The Ages OF British Comics (Platignum, Gold, Silver), the artist William A. Ward and more.

If you knew nothing about British comics of the Platinum, Golden and Silver Ages then once you buy and read this book you'll be a goddam comic intellectual dinosaur! Yipes!

All in that beautiful Iron Warrior cover exclusively drawn for Black Tower by that meta-gargantuoso talented Ben R. Dilworth!

I sold my family to be able to get this book out! Help me buy them back by purchasing your very own 

whizz-o copy today!
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