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Cinebook Ltd Newsletter 212 - August 2025

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Dear Reader, This month sees the return of an old friend in decidedly unfamiliar surroundings. Thorgal – Viking skald, reluctant warrior, child of the stars – reaches the end of his river journey at last and arrives in the largest city in the world: Bag Dadh. How is he supposed to find one child among a million inhabitants, though – Aniel, his own kidnapped son? He has allies, but which ones can he truly trust to guide him through the perils and enchantments of the Middle East …? Our second title brings the first narrative arc of The Bank to a close. Fate is not kind to all the characters, and bitter rivalries and conflicts are still the order of the day. But as a nation begins to throw itself into the industrial revolution, fortunes are made and lost, and the torch can pass to the next generation after this book. Closure or foreclosure …? August with Cinebook – Nordic or family, it’s all about sagas! If you’re able, come and pay us a visit at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere, UK – we’ll be at table 1 of the Lakeside Comics Marketplace with a large selection of our titles and the best deals you’ll find on site – 3 for the price of 2, 5 for 3, 7 for 4, etc … See you there! There have been some transformations to the comics distribution world this year, and it means a couple of changes for us too. From now on, we will be distributed by Simon and Schuster in the United States and Canada, and by Pollen Diffusion Distribution in France. The Bank 2 Julien Maffre, Pierre Boisserie and Philippe Guillaume The Émigrés’ Billion 1825. Charlotte, now living in Paris and ruined by Jacob Rothschild’s schemes, is once again forced to sell her body, until news comes that gives her hope again: King Charles X has decided to compensate the ‘Émigrés’ – the nobles who had fled the French Revolution and lost everything … Read more Thorgal 26 Grzegorz Rosinski and Yves Sente Kah-Aniel After the icy North, Thorgal and his companions now face the oppressive heat of the Middle East. On the road to Bag Dadh, the reluctant hero has got dangerously close to the bewitching Saluma, who tells him the story of the Red Mages – the very same who kidnapped his son Aniel … Read more No new titles available in Previews in September. North-American readers, to locate a comic book shop near you that stocks or can order these titles and many more, use this handy Read more   Or, if you're a retailer yourself, please go to: Read more The Bank 2 The Émigrés’ Billion Saturday and Sunday, 27 & 28 September, 2025: Cinebook will exhibit at the Lakes International Comic Arts Festival in Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria; table 1 of the Lakeside Comics Marketplace. Lakeside Comics Marketplace 2025 | Lakes International Comic Art Festival

MU-Memories

 As some people will know I have a LOT of Independent comics from a LOT of Indie comic companies many long gone.  This afternoon I was browsing through The Desert Peach by Donna Barr and that led to a box full of MU (Miscellaneous) Press Comics set up by Ed Vick ion Seattle.   

Sorry some of the scans are not as clear as I would like but they are from the 1990s!

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THE OWL -MASTER OF THE NIGHT

 

A4
B&W
80pp
£8.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper/the-owl-master-of-the-night/paperback/product-1vk5e79w.html

A Fan Project. 

The Owl. Created by Frank Thomas in 1940 for Crackajack Funnies:this book contains three Golden Age stories including the rare first appearance of Owl Girl plus the rare 1967 Owl Man and Owl Girl in their own comic. 

Why Miss America Flopped (But Still Came Back Decades Later)

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MR MAGOO

 My dream during what sleep I got last night....

Mr Magoo is either a cold blooded serial killer or international assassin.

Stan Lee with Roy Thomas, 1976

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 psst! No one ever sees the aliens!

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Buy Smart

I was asked why my books are so expensive on Ebay/ Amazon? Well, I DO NOT sell via Ebay or Amazon. What you have there are people who buy the book from my online store and then re-price (hiking up the price) and sell on those sites.

The Ultimate British Comics Gold Collection is being sold for £37-75.00 or $49.97-101.17 or Euro 42.58 -86.32.   The same thing is happening with other books including The Hooper Interviews which I have seen described as "rare" -it is not as it has never been out of print.

The Gold Collection is 400+pp £25.00 + 4.94 for priority mail so £29.94  so you work out whether it's simpler to buy from my online store or buy from someone who has to order and then send to your address at a much inflated price.

There is another side to this. You order from a third party seller then it is buyer beware. About 4 years ago I had an email out of the blue asking where a book ordered was. I asked what they were talking about and they told me the title, what they paid for it (£15 above cover price) and that after 3 weeks it had not turned up. I checked and no such order but a copy of the book had been purchased by Amazon to resell under their deal with the print on demand company (the Amazon sale got me 5o/50 cents on a £20 book sale).

I to9ld the buyer I needed his order number to sort out what was going on. He then told me that he had purchased 'post free' (no such thing) from a dealer. It seems the dealer bought the book cheap on Amazon to sell it on.  I pointed out to the buyer that he had paid £15 over the cover price and that as he had not purchased from my online store but a third party it was out of my hands and "tough luck" for helping to cheat me out of a semi decent sale.

The book eventually turned up 4 weeks after he had ordered it and he showed me the invoice that was inside as the seller had bought the book on Amazon at a discount of £10 but sold it for £35. Why was he showing me the invoice?  He wanted me to take action to get money back -seriously. I told him that he had been on the online store so saw the cost but had ordered at a higher cost thinking he had free postage without checking and so it had absolutely nothing to do with me.

If you are interested in a book on the online store then you can go through the ordering process and up to the Choose delivery method point which would show you total cost. If you decide against buying leave the page as you are NEVER charged unless you click "Pay Now". As shown below  

This will all show in your local currency as books are printed and delivered by services within your region. NO international mailing. There are guarantees with ordering from an online store such as set prices and help if there is an order problem. What profit there is gets back to me to keep producing books and buy in more cans of baked beans for dinner!

Buy smart!

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Everything Update including the roof

 

Old Terry is such a silly boy. I said I was going to do shorter stories to make less work but more title issues?  Remember?  Well, after two long stretches of severe eye strain where I could hardly see much at all, people coming to work on the roof and now awaiting some internal ceiling work...I tried to catch up with the Werewolf story and far from just starring The Questors.....

Well, a few other characters are involved and I even connect some past werewolf stories to make the plot more intricate (he says).

Yesterday I worked from 1200 to 2100 hours (odd coffee break and cooking dinner) to try to finish the Werewolf story. My eyes about lasted by my osteoarthritic hands were being a nuisance.and there will be some final art corrections needed which is standard anyway but...I got up to page 77 (about 10 pages fully drawn yesterday) so it looks as though the issue will be an 80 pager....I seriously tried to keep the page count down but I throw a lot in if it helps the story.

The volume after has well over 130 pagers -it is fully drawn but needs lettering. Then I have to finish the second part of the Special Globe Guard story for issue 1.....

Any comic artist wannabe artists out there who WILL finish a project for experience and to add to your portfolio let me know!

Web Woman (1978)

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OUT NOW!! Johnny Neg 2: Down In The Burn Pitts

 

Ben Dilworth & Co.

A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 m

25 Pages

Interior Color: Premium Black & White

Binding Type: Paperback Saddle Stitch

Cover Finish: Glossy

£8.00 UK 

Johnny Neg -future detective in a dystopian Nu London where double speek, fist, gun and corruption are every day things Neg has to deal with. Join him Down in the Burn Pitts. Along for this journey are stories involving Wilberforce of the Yard, Corporal Religion Horror Tales and...a cat.

Black Tower Slick Fun 1

 

 

 

Pages

34

Binding Type

Paperback Saddle Stitch

Interior Color

Black & White

Dimensions

A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

£8.00

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terryhooper/slickfun-1/paperback/product-gjymqp2.htmlq=&page=1&pageSize=4

You like your Fun to be Slick? You like your Slick to be slick? Well her you have Slick fun -and with a little added "Wahoo!" from the star himself -Dr Atomutt! You will also see The Iron Boy on his never ending quest to find and consume metal. Not to mention GoBo And Gobo and Captain Cardiff Oh, and if you like your Westerns anthropomorphic then there is Sheriff Merrybark! As GoBo says "Pi Quo Bo Bo!" -wise words (which means there is more inside)

Black Tower: The Attacker -Dark Origins

 

 A4

25pp

Black and white

£8.00 UK

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/the-attacker-dark-origins/paperback/product-8458282.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

When urban crime seems to be out of check with the police unable to handle every incident and people too scared to even walk along the road what happens?

Do the police give up as resources are over stretched while the public scream for action? How can the police be everywhere: at every location where there is going to be a minor or serious crime? They can't.

Is vigilante action required?

The early 1980s created Attacker could have been anybody. He appeared in a series of no text strips dishing out violence for violence. 42 years later his/her identity is still unknown. With some takes on the character by Ben R Dilworth and a Preview to the Return of the Gods series this is action all the way.

Black Tower Comic Fun Album 1

 

A4

32pp

Black and white and colour

£12.00 UK -outside the UK the online store will show you cost in your region

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/black-tower-comic-fun/paperback/product-w4ynq4r.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

It's FUN! FUN! FUN! All the

way (except for the action). Black Tower Comic Fun reprints some of the strips that are now going on for three decades old. Starring Dr Sterno: Man of Science as he attempts to stop a seemingly out of control cyborg from rampaging into Finland...and is betrayed! Dru gives advice on getting a job. The Thinker offers his thoughts on things in general. The Legendary Wrecking Crew pop up. The Iron Warrior gets to work with his huge chopper. Garza shows why he is the jungle boss. And...Garbage World in which intergalactic demolition decides the Earth is a waste tip of sorts. Just one big bundle of fun in black and white and colour!

Black Tower: Streamline 2 The Dr Rose Agenda

 

Ben R Dilworth writer/artist

24 pages

A4

Black and white

£8.00 UK

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/streamline-2/paperback/product-yvyd549.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Keenan King aka Streamline of Earth Parallel 669 meets agent Grimes of MI5 in Westminster Abbey for a briefing. A briefing that seems to indicate that the man who helped King and gave him his powers, Dr. Rose, has mass produced the formula used on him.

If the man who helped give him the powers of Streamline has turned rogue for money or other reasons he has to be stopped.

An army of Streamlines would be unstoppable and a threat to not just the UK but the world.

still available

Dennis Holmes Wilberton & Friends

80pp

A4

black and white

£8.00

https://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper/streamline-and-moon-man/paperback/product-2p9q7y.html?q=&page=1&pageSize=4

Streamline the Golden Age British speedster and Moon Man get the Black Tower treatment in this one off comic with a difference. These are new stories and art and not Golden/Silver Ages reprints