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Matt Hawes
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With the recent and sad news about Dianna Rigg's passing, a Facebook group dedicated to Fanzine Appreciation and History posted about this fanzine writing:
"..Here's the 1971 one-shot fanzine 'The Complete Avengers', cover by JOHN BYRNE, also some interiors [earliest pubbed JB work I know of], with Rigg portraits by JOHN ROMITA & FRANK BRUNNER !!! ed-pubbed by John Mansfield, who also did the long-running [18+ issues], also super-scarce, 'Canadian Wargamer' fanzine, beginning 1967, which Vaughn Bodé did a bunch of art for.
"[For some bizarre reason, the cover seems to say British Com[ics?], but that is definitely not the title. This zine also has articles on other Brit shows like UFO]"
Pretty cool.
And here's the John Romita, Sr. picture of Mrs. Peel:
Edited by Matt Hawes on 11 September 2020 at 9:56pm
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John Byrne
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Center of the bottom row, Peter Wyngard as Jason King.
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Trevor Krysak
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That cover is great. Love the likenesses. But at the same time if I saw it without context I wouldn't know it was a JB cover.
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Rebecca Jansen
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I read it as The British Are Come.
I can easily recognize Ed Bishop (and a UFO) as well as Patrick McGoohan, Wyngarde, MacNee and Rigg. Two of the three in the middle from The Survivors maybe?
Edited by Rebecca Jansen on 11 September 2020 at 11:07pm
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Robbie Moubert
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Several years too early for Survivors.
The lady with the mole/beauty spot is Rosemary Nicols from Department S, the show that introduced Jason King, so the bloke above Wyngarde must be Joel Fabiani (the cleft in his chin is another clue).
The girl on the left might be Linda Thorson.
Edited by Robbie Moubert on 12 September 2020 at 4:58am
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John Byrne
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I can easily recognize Ed Bishop…•• Better than me, then! Until I spotted the UFO I was wondering why I'd included Illya Kuryakin in the group.
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John Byrne
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Incidentally, the guy who published this 'zine, John Mansfield, is the one I consider to have "discovered" me. I'd done THE DEATH'S HEAD KNIGHT as a "catalog" for a show of comicbook art at ACA, he got a copy, and got in touch with me to see if I was interested in pursuing a career in comics.Crazily enough, I had not really even considered that concept until he asked. Anyway, John was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces which allowed him to fly all over the place for free, and he attended conventions all across the States and elsewhere. He started showing my work, and the rest is history. Or hysterical. That Napoleonic era soldier drawing that turned up here a while back was also done for him.
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John Byrne
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This thread has me flashing back to those days of yesteryear when I was just starting my quest to get into comics professionally. I did a LOT of drawings for 'zines, and there were a LOT of 'zine. Some of them were pretty well done, some of them were utter crap. Sort of like real life.In many ways, the early Seventies was something of a "golden age" for 'zines. And this was before computers and home printers appeared on the scene. (Many were xeroxed!) I confess I have no idea what's going on in that field today. Are there still fanzines or, as I started to notice decades ago, does anyone who puts out anything insist on calling themselves "independent publishers"?
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Stevie Thomas
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JB,
What was your vision for your future career coming out of ACA, if not comics?
Also, yes, there is still a thriving zine scene, with folks happily embracing the term and not calling themselves independent publishers.
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John Byrne
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I assumed I’d end up in advertising.
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JB, is this the soldier you’re referring to?
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John Byrne
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Yup.
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