BLACK TOWER COMICS & BOOKS

Saturday 8 June 2024

Black Tower Comics and Books Ordering -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!

Friday 24 May 2024

Krakos: Mirror Man

Saturday 6 April 2024

Whatever Happened To The Iron Warrior?

In Black Tower Adventure Vol. 2 no. 10 was the final part of the story Jungle Terror Antonia's search for her grandfather, Rodney Dearth the creator of The Iron Warrior who supposedly vanished in Africa in the 1940s.

The search leads her to Africa but then South America. Her she, and her companions, find Dearth. But Dearth looks to be in his forties at the oldest. Dearth is carrying out maintenance on the Iron Warrior in front of which is a severed dinosaur head. Antonia is stumped but Dearth explains that he and the Warrior are somehow pulled through time and space...at this point the adventurer and Warrior are sucked back into time.

Shoot ahead some 12 years or so and we learn that Zom of the Zodiac had recruited Dearth and the Warrior to intervene at a very specific point outside time and space (The Green Skies) to bring a plan to fruition. As a reward Zom grants Dearth a life of adventure in time and space which explains what was going on in Adventure.

Although The Iron Warrior has appeared in various adventures -as in Black Tower Super Heroes- the quest6ion remains as to the character's future. Something is planned but as almost a one man show now it depends on time and cranky hands. But you can be guaranteed that right now he is either crashing through an ancient Sumerian city state or busting through a forest in pursuit of a Frankenstein-like monster that is also being chased by Iroquois warriors...

Oh those stories are there...

Tuesday 26 March 2024

Stats 26 03 2024

Hong Kong 1K

United States

Sweden

Canada

Switzerland

United Kingdom

France

Iran

United Arab Emirates

Germany

Singapore

Other

Thursday 21 March 2024

The Cougar Meets Mayfly

I opened a box and found another piece of 1980s artwork. I am sure another page may be in a box somewhere!

At the end of Black Tower Adventure no. 1 (1984) we saw a mysterious figure watching Mayfly and in the next issue she was to encounter a man who identified himself as The Cougar (no laughing!). I ended up drawing that story after the artist (Phil Horton?) pulled out. Just went totally silent on me and that left me in a lurch.

Pretty battered up page but not unexpected. The Cougar was, of course, featured in The Return of the Gods in which he was badly injured and after a bout of alcoholism/PTSD he is returning in the third volume of Adventure but it is nice to see how the characters started decades ago.

Black Tower Super Heroes 4

the fourth issue of BTSH is here and it is so crammed full of eye boggling action that we had to use adamantium staples to keep it all together! Kotar, Sabuta along with Tarot and Lady Silvana face the werewolf while the Zero Heroes are in a church surrounded by zombies and what happens to "the other guy" at the end...I'm asking -what happened? Jack finds that he could have had a fatal dose, while The Trial continues and the mystery deepens. There is more -much much more! Blue Saviour is the cover star and a tribute to creator David A. Johnson who brightened up Bath comic marts with his Blue Saviour, Madame Mystery and Enigma comics! COMICS ARE FUN!

Comic Bits 2!

The second issue of the magazine celebrating creators, titles and characters of the British Platinum, Golden and Silver Ages of comics. In this issue William A. Ward finally gets some long deserved recognition for his contribution to comics John McCail gets "bigged up" something rotten! We look at comedian and actor Bob Monkhouse's comic creation career Steve Dowling -Father of the Garth newspaper strip speaks to Denis Gifford (the ONLY interview he ever gave) There is a look at Dennis M. Reader and his comics work that spawned some of the UKs first super heroes. There is also a look at William Fletcher Thomas, Ernest Wilkinson, Jos Walker, Mary Byfield and William H A Chasemore... oh, and LOTS of lovely art and stripwork!

UFO CONTACT

Since 1947 it has been claimed that UFOs/flying saucers are evidence of aliens visiting the Earth. Since the 1950s claims of encounters with landed craft and alien beings were talked about but not taken seriously. In the 1960s the subject of UFO abduction was a "slow-burner" until the whole "Grey" abduction phenomenon and claims made by researchers. But is there evidence to back up any of the claims -and what about those encountering Alien Entities but who were not abducted? 2017 is the time to assess the past evidence and look at the faults within Ufology. Not everyone is going to be happy -debunkers or ufologists.

Strange & Mysterious Beasts

Humans have always been fascinated by reports of strange and mysterious beasts prowling the Earth. But are they fact or fantasy? What were the mystery beasts that killed people in France during thec 17th and 18th centuries? Are there Bigfoot-like creatures in the UK? What about the reports of werewolves? Are humanoid bat-like creatures flying around the United States and UK? Others included in this book are the Vampire of Niali, the Devil's foot-prints of Gatagon; The Supernatural Invasion: Slender-man and Black Eyed Kids Mystery Creature of the Bay of Flamanville,Things Caught on Camera –Fact and Fiction,The Bat Creatures, The Owl-man The British Pig-man and Snake-man, The Pictish Beast Shunka Warak'in –A Hyena Too Far? and many others.

The Bat Triumphant!

In 1941,The Bat sets about modernising the backward Duchy of Stahl,over which his dynasty has ruled since 1410 A.D.. The Bat is soon involved in experiments with the infamous Count Cogliostro. One of these experiments involves suspended animation;The Bat deciding he will be the test subject. When he wakes,The Bat finds that not days have gone by but 51 years! Worse,his kingdom is in ruins and an enclave of Kamora. The Bat tries politics to win back his homeland and when that fails he decides to fight for it! However,he is unaware that some old,and new,enemies are lying in wait to stop him and all of them want one thing:The Bat dead! Originally a back up strip in Black Tower Adventure in 1994,The Bat proved very popular as an anti-hero. The story was never completed. It is now.

Krakos:Sands of Terror!

Created by William A. Ward for Swan Comics in the 1940s,Krakos was one of Ward’s supernatural anti-hero types. Used,with Swan’s permission,in Black Tower Adventure strips in the 1980s/1990s,this is the character’s first solo outing. But will Krakos fulfill the Goddess Isis’ dream and become the new pharoah of a New Egyptian Kingdom that will encompass all of the Middle East? Did anyone actually ask Krakos? The book contains information on Ward and his work plus sample pages rescued after 60 years of neglect!

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