Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Monday, 29 November 2021
The Ultimate British Golden Age Collection
A4
Paperback
B&W
405 pages
Features...
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 omic 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!
Black Tower Gold Volume 6
A4
Paperback
B&W
35 pages
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!
Black tower Gold Volume 5
William McCail’s 1940 classic is reprinted for the first time in 60 years.
Black Tower Gold volume 4
A4
Paperback
B&W
86 pages
The fourth volume of this series features some great finds of the lost era of British comics:
Black Tower Gold volume 3
A4
Paperback
B&W
68 pages
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!
Black Tower Gold volume 2
A4
Paperback
B&W
The second collection of British 1940s comic strips featuring Maxwell The Mighty, Slicksure, Iron Boy,Alfie, Ace Hart and more.
Black Tower Gold Volume 1
For the first time in 60 years some of the lost gems of the British Golden Age of Comics are reprinted!
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Finally Completed by UK Tarzan (hardback) Annuals
Ridiculously cheap £7 incl p&p. Not seen one offered in ten years so yes I grabbed it and it will complete the UK Tarzan annual run.
Would be interesting to see Tarzan comics in other languages but postage and getting whacked with
Future Projects -Unedited Covers
At the moment there are a number of things I need to get sortedand over the Christmas period I will be increasing the cover prices on almost all of the books at the online store.
https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/hoopercomicsuk
After that I can then look at future projects and how they may need to be re-formatted since there has been absolutely no news on the handling charge and other increase though it seems to publisher (me) has to take the brunt of that.
The following are some rough cover illoes that are unedited and will need cropping and, of course, lettering. Maybe all in 2022?
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Monday, 22 November 2021
Saturday, 20 November 2021
The Amazing World Of Alan Class
A4
B&W
24pp
£5.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-amazing-world-of-alan-class/paperback/product-1rgkeq5p.html
Marvel, Timely, Atlas, Charlton, ACG, MLJ/Archie Dennis the Menace (US) -one man published them all. Alan Class. Who? Class is legendary for bringing black and white reprints of US comics to a country starved of the medium thanks to a certain war!
From 1959-1989 Suspence, Sinister, Astounding and Uncanny gave us a comic fix for a few pennies. Learn more about the man and how Class Comics came about in the long awaited print version of Terry Hooper's exclusive interview!
Liz & Jen
A4
B&W
21pp
£5.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/liz-jen/paperback/product-1m4g7pe4.html
Originally drawn back in the 1980s, this story of the coming out of two life long friends has never been properly published.
Up-dated for 2011 with story and pencils by Terry Hooper and inks by Ben R. Dilworth
The Job Interview
A4
B&W
10pp
£5.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-job-interview/paperback/product-1qz79wvm.html
In a world with ever increasing population and food resources being stretched to the limit unemployment is a major problem. A drastic solution is needed.
Ben Dilworth delivers a warning and is back on great frorm with his latest one-off!
Dilworths Aesop's Fables
A4
B&W
10pp
£2.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/dilworths-aesops-fables/paperback/product-1yzq2662.html
Once a very tall man in Japan decided to do a version of Aesop's Fables that he could read to his young daughter. He wrote it, illustrated it and decided that it was too "dark" for a little girl. In England, a bearded gnome got a copy and published it.
True story.
A4
B&W
27pp
£4.00
https://www.lulu.com/en/en/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/thaddeus-twatt-book-ii/paperback/product-1ggqrg42.html
Following their escape from the planet Friggia, Twatt and Tomas find what appears to be a jungle planet –complete with rather odd life forms.
However, as Professor Twatt casually strolls around the Jungle Planet he finds a mine complex using slave labourers —then he sees the crystal-like flying saucer and realises that the impossible has happened….
The Crystallids are here! But what are the Crystallids and what is Twatt’s connection to them. Some of the secrets of Professor Twatt’s earlier life could be exposed by a chance encounter with a Crystallid prisoner —a man who knows Twatt...the question is: will Twatt and Tomas live ?
The complete first story arc from Black Tower Adventure in one book.
Thaddeus Twatt Book I -The Fearful Fate of Friggia
A4
B&W
27pp
£4.00
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Eccentric scientific genius Professor Thaddeus Twatt has decided to look in on one of his late father’s experiments… ...but then his nephew, Tomas, arrives for the Summer.
Tomas has been warned that his uncle is a little “odd” but expects to have a carefree holiday in the Somerset countryside. That was his plan.
In the late 1940s, Twatt’s father, along with other scientists, had created a miniature galaxy in chambers deep beneath the Cheddar countryside. A miniature galaxy into which groups of settlers flew. After decades it seems time to visit the “Twatt-verse” and see how things have gone.
Tomas thinks it’s all a joke...
until he is miniaturised!
The duo find the entrance to the mini-verse mined and then their craft crash-lands on the first planet they approach.
They find what seems to be a barren, frozen world —until captured by a group of survivors and a story is told of betrayal, sabotage and a great “Worm” that devastates cities.
Are the duo trapped of frozen Friggia forever…?
Cruisers In The Clouds
A4
B&W
40pp
£6.00
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If you have any interest in history or the development by the pioneers of hot-air ballooning,including the first use of parachutes in the 1800s,then this collection of articles by John Lea from 1905 and illustrated by H. J. Hodges,is for you.
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Hexagon Comics: HEXAGON GROUP #2 -HEXAGON VS HEPTAGON
7x10 squarebound comic,
ISBN-13: 978-1-61227-933-6 -
Contents:
THE COMING OF GUN GALLON
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: Juan Roncagliolo Berger
THE TERRIFYING THREAT OF HEPTAGON
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: Eduardo Garcia
THE SUP’VILLAIN WHO STOLE XMAS
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: Eduardo Garcia
THE DEADLY TRAP OF THE NECROMANCER
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: Juan Roncagliolo Berger
The Hexagon Group was born either in 2002, when they made their first retroactive appearance in Strangers #1, or in the 1960s, depending upon how one looks at it.
Like The Justice Society of America and The Avengers, the group gathered together a single team of different heroes published by Editions Lug in their own series between 1964 and 1974.
There is Jeff Sullivan, a.k.a. the Man of Brass, descended from a long line of heroes; the powerful Dark Flyer; the beautiful Black Lys from France; joined here by a bevy of new members, such as astronaut Max Tornado; the African sorcerer Mozam; Gun Gallon, exiled from an extra-dimensional realm; the Lakota warrior Rakar; and Plasma, Jeff’s own daughter.
In the four stories collected in this volume, Hexagon faces the Heptagon group, an evil cabal comprised of its deadliest enemies; fight sJeff’s evil brother; teams up with the French Guardian of the Republic; and is almost defeated by the evil Necromancer.
Art by Juan Roncagliolo Berger and Eduardo Garcia.
Jean-Marc Lofficier & Juan Roncagliolo Berger & José Luis Ruiz Pérez.
Cover by José Luis Ruiz Pérez.
Contents:
A CALL TO ARMS
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: Juan Roncagliolo Berger
IN THE DEPTHS OF THE DARK HIVE
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: José Luis Ruiz Pérez
O, BITTER VICTORY
Story: Jean-Marc Lofficier; Art: José Luis Ruiz Pérez
7x10 squarebound comic,
76 pages
b&w
ISBN-13: 978-1-61227-928-2History
The Hexagon Group is a private organization of six super-powered heroes gathered together to protect Earth against superhuman threats. The group is financed by the personal wealth of its members, but mostly Nerotek. It is named thus because a hexagon is the perfect structure offering maximum resistance and tensile strength. The Hexagon Group is headquarted in New York; it has worked together with C.L.A.S.H. and other U.N. organizations. It has at its disposal a vast array of advanced technology, mostly invented by Cletus and Dominik Nero and Sweet.
The FOUNDING MEMBERS of the Hexagon Group were Jeff Sullivan, Dark Flyer (I), Black Lys, The Mysterious Archer (I), White Mask, Aster and Pinky, who were brought together to defeat Melanos. After the disastrous affair of the Black Hive, White Mask resigned and swore to never work with the Group again.
Max Tornado and Mozam then joined the Group, but Max Tornado soon asked to become a "Reserve Member" because of his duties towards NASA. Dax (Mysterious Archer I) was recalled by the Brotherhood of Archers and replaced by a second Mysterious Archer, Jukka Häyhä. At that time, after a battle with Fred "Blackie" Sullivan, Gun Gallon, exiled from the other dimensional realm of Orios, joined the Group.
Eventually Cletus Nero (Dark Flyer I) retired, only to be replaced by his son, Dominik Nero (Dark Flyer II). Gun Gallon returned to Orios and was replaced by Plasma, Jeff Sullivan's daughter. Mozam left and was replaced by Rakar (II), who had just left the Marines and helped Hexagon against their arch-enemy, the Necromancer.
Later, the Necromancer managed to get control of the Group and forced them to battle the Strangers on the Moon. Jeff Sullivan appeared to die there and was replaced by his brother, Fred, who had reformed. Ben Leonard then joined the Group under the alias of "Râ". The Group was recently manipulated into fighting the Enchanters, but soon teamed up with them to battle the dark goddess Aruna.
I know what you are asking: "Terry, what can you tell us about this book?" Nothing. Seriously, if that history above does not get you curious then having a full plot synopsis will do nothing!
There is some character information so you don't sit there thinking "Who's this?" -in fact, you could just take these as new characters. The artwork within compliments the stories superbly. Honestly, I neverread the story until my third pick-up of the book. I was dealing with another computer breakdown and glanced at the cover of this book and next thing I knew I had forgotten the PC!
The art, especially by Berger, is superb. This is what Harrier Comics could have been. The art is so smooth and detailed and the printing quality is so good that panels pop out at you.
I will be honest with you: I have only been really excited three in the last few decades when it came to new comics. Once was in the 1970s with Seaboard's Atlas Comics and the other time was in the 1980s when Archie brought out its Red Circle Comics and the 1980s Hong Kong Jademan Comics. Since then things have just plodded along. Is it weird that at my age I am now getting so excited by a new (rejuvenated) line of comics?
Please do yourself a favour and try a copy of this book. I hope it might spark fresh enthusiasm in others.
