There I was, continuing to sort through my archive boxes when I was staring at a photograph, off-white paper, in issue 13, January, 1990 of Comics F/X: The Comic Fandom Examiner. There were a number of articles on the UK Small Press and comics as I had been pushing them heavily in the United States. It may be why this was "The UK Invasion" issue!
The photograph was in bad shape which is not surprising considering the newsprint paper. The photo itself was never returned by Comics F/X, but then a lot of things weren't. The caption reads: "L-R: Terry Hooper, Mad Mike, Ben Dilworth and John Erasmus. It was taken during 1988 or 1989 at a Westminster (London) Comic Mart. Hidden behind me is a man with a Maggie Thatcher hairstyle clutching (we believe) a photo of said hag, is Darron Northall.
At the time one of my names -not of my choice,- was "The Mad Mullah"...a name I would prefer not to be called in the current world climate (MI5 please note).
Fun times.
I'm sorry we didn't return your photo. We were operating on a broken shoestring, but I would have sent it back if I'd known it was not an extra.
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