Tuesday, 10 February 2026
Monday, 9 February 2026
Sunday, 8 February 2026
Xendragon: The Legacy of Frankenstein
A4
19pp
£5.19
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Paranormal investigator Xendragon answers a priest's call for help and travels to Europe.
The priest is missing. A wereman. A Frankenstein monster. A mad scientist.
What more needs to be written?
He's GoBo! GoBo Explains Einstein
A4
B&w
23pp
£6.19
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GoBo -He's Pink! He's Pan-dimensional. As he'd/it would say: "Go toho jo ko li lo yo to-po!" The Small Press best seller of 2009 is resized and reprinted along with a whole new Go Bo as he explains Einstein's Universe in Sub-Dogonian! Be part of the Go Bo craze!
The Purple Hood: Land of Hope and Glory
A4
B&W
74pp
£6.82
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There has always been a Purple Hood. “The Kings Man” and then the international agent used by HM Government to deal with external and internal threats.
Mad men with nuclear bombs.
Organised drug cartels.
Power hungry dictators.
The Britton family have always been Purple Hoods. The Purple Hood is precise and clinical in his work. But above all else those wearing the Hood have had guidance from their consciences. So when the military stand idly by, unable to act when civilians are massacred –when politicians only draw up policy and blow warm air….. ...does the Purple Hood –does John Britton– sit back on his hands idly awaiting a change in policy?
Or does John Britton pull on the Hood and say: “Enough! The line is drawn and crossed!”
Time for the bad men to run.
Time to hide. Or time to die!
Ben Dilworth writes and draws this mini epic.
The Collected Merriwether: God's Demon-Thumper
A4
B&W
85pp
£6.91
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The complete Merriwether series, originally published in Black Tower Adventure and A Little Midnight Horror–but with three strips never before published…
including the Reverend’s battle with the ultimate Evil!
From The Horror Of Hob Street to The Village Of Demons and Varney the Vampyre to The Fallen Angel himself, see how one Church of England vicar deals hard-fisted [and various spiked objects] justice to the ungodly ...and pays the ultimate price!!!
If you were into Charlton Horror Comics or any horror comic then this one is for you!
At the end of Merriwether:Gods Demon-Thumper, the Reverend had been confronted by Satan and as a consequence lay fatally injured. Star of 1980s comics, Benjamin R. Dilworth, takes us through the fleeting seconds before death as Merriwether has flash backs showing just why he took on the career he did. Be prepared for horror and a little tongue-in-cheek humour.
COMIC HORROR FANS WILL LOVE THIS!
Merriwether: God's Demon-Thumper
A4
B&W
58pp
Price: £8.16 (excl. VAT)Prints in 3-5 business days
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/merriwethergods-demon-thumper/paperback/product-12101586.html
The complete Merriwether series,originally published in Black Tower Adventure and A Little Midnight Horror–but with three strips never before published:including the Reverend’s battle with the ultimate Evil!
From The Horror Of Hob Street to The Village Of Demons and Varney the Vampyre to The Fallen Angel himself,see how one Church of England vicar deals hard-fisted [and various spiked objects] justice to the ungodly...and the ultimate price!!!
If you were into Charlton Horror Comics or any horror comic then this one is for you!
Cover by the sensational Paul Ashley Brown!
The Job Interview
A4
B&W
10pp
£5.17
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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!
Saturday, 7 February 2026
Friday, 6 February 2026
TheThinker No. 1
A4
B&W
28pp
£6.50
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From within the Plain of Absoluteness where Actuality crosses with Counter Actuality and interstitial space is the highway comes The Thinker. Surveying the world -our own?- and looking for a glimmer of light in the eternal darkness of existence.
Sit back and prepare for some mind warping!
Major Victory #1
A4
44pp
Black and white
£6.48
He is Britain's latest super hero...or is he?
What part do the gods have to play in the life of Woking's hero?
Why the symbolic "V" and Welsh dragon motif?
Who IS Major Victory and why is the President of the United States visiting Woking and WHO is plotting his assassination?
Is it safe to live in Woking?
Easy solution: buy the book and find out! Big Bad Ben Dilworth is back (admittedly he was only captured by tiny super heroes and whisked away to a mysterious tower in his head but....he's cheap!)Thursday, 5 February 2026
A Comment on a Miserable Day
I have just finished having a conversation with someone who used to work in comics up until 2015. Nothing unusual there but the turn the conversation took was a little unexpected. He mentioned how all the news on the scandals involving certain UK creators had suddenly vanished and thought that was weird.
He also mentioned a certain former UK comic editor/writer who thought he was a bit of a ladies man. "Did you hear how he chatted up and propositioned *********** wife at the comic event?" I told him that the artist -sadly gone now- had told me the story himself. He then asked if I knew about another artist whose wife was propositioned by the same person? I did, vaguely, but it seems that was acceptable back in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
It turned out that the person I was chatting to was one of those who reported two comic creators trying to get into a young woman's hotel room in Bristol during a comic event (both were typically drunk). I told him that was well known but covered up by other creators -what I did not know was that the young woman was not even 18 years old.
The online comics media tends to brush over these things or keep quiet about them but I am hoping that one day soon people are going to come forward and report what they know or things that happened. Names that could be mentioned would make the Neil Gaiman scandal look like a picnic in Brighton.
Black Tower Comic Fun Album 1
32pp
Black and white and colour
£12.00 UK -outside the UK the online store will show you cost in your region
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!
Streamline and Moon Man #1
Dennis Holmes Wilberton & Friends
80pp
A4
black and white
£8.00
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
Black Tower: Streamline 2 The Dr Rose Agenda
Ben R Dilworth writer/artist
24 pages
A4
Black and white
£8.00 UK
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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.
New Avengers 8, FF 7, Dr Strange 2 and Avengers 34 (800) -Is This really what Marvel Has Become?
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For me The Avengers, Fantastic Four and X-Men were the team books with the best writers and artists. We know for a fact, because if you have read and studied comics everything you need as proof is there, that comics declined in the 1990s. Hack writers with no knowledge of characters or their history were cheap to hire by a company like Marvel that had fallen into decline from the top on down.
The last good run of Fantastic Four was likely the early 2000s when old hands were brought in. Reboot after reboot after reboot after reboot has seen the stories decline. The current incarnation just fell flat but I persevered and now it is just poor. It might have been bearable were it not for the fact that there have been some lousy artists involved. In the past I have had no problem with Ramos's art but in this Fantastic Four run it is ugly with no saving grace and I know Ramos fans will be outraged by my writing that but I do not care because the story is bad enough but the art has pushed me to the point of ending decades of reading the former Marvel flag ship title.
Please tell me New Avengers is going to end soon so that standing order can be cancelled. There is some nice art in the book but the story seems to be all over the place and while I am sure that the writer thinks they are being clever it is all wearing a bit thin now and seems to be going nowhere. It is issue 8 but I feel like we are back with issue 4.
Winter Soldier and Black Widow have to take turns in tying each other up and torturing one another. to see who is the traitor....more like the writer trying to get their kinks out there. Honestly, at one point I just asked out loud "What the ***** is supposed to be going on?"
And the cover is awful.
The Avengers was the title others tried to emulate. It was another title that just went wrong in the 1990s, there seemed to be a glimmer of hope and return to form when Busiek, Davis and then Perez revived it with Heroes Reborn and Avengers Forever seemed to indicate Marvel was returning to form, They dumped Perez and Busiek and....oh gods. I have a run of Avengers from the 1960s to present and there have been some awful -AWFUL- reboots with bad stories and equally bad art.
The current run has been notable for bad writing and also the fact that the Avengers rarely feature in the title and at best we've had two members in an issue. That's a lovely old feel cover to the book and as an 800th issue (don't worry they add and remove the "legacy numbering" whenever they think it might sell something) and all Marvel has been stating you think this is going to be a treat for fans.
Well, that pipe dream hit the crapper fast. Bad characterisation, messy story and while there is some good art it is all over the place and I had to keep double checking. Do I quit with this at 800? Honestly, I can see why some fans will not consider there being an Avengers comic after 500 and why a lot were complaining about this big anniversary issue.
Nice cover.
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Sadly, Dr Strange has been rebooted and messed up so much that I resorted to trades to keep up with it but then it just died for me. When it was stated that this new series was "a return to form" for the character I did not realise they meant "bad form". After issue 1 I stated I would see what happened in issue 2....
I am not buying issue 3. Some of the art was just ugly. When you look at a long established character and have to ask "why does he look so awful now?" you know things have gone wrong.
I actually hate saying how bad a company I have followed and supported with my money since the 1960s has gotten. This constant swapping around of writers and artists is not keeping things fresh but actually destroying characters and titles. I think the best example is The Ultimate Universe line. Marvel is showing the universe end while publicising its revival (AGAIN).
I know Disney does not care about Marvel Comics as they only bring in a pittance while the movies are the big earners. I gave up on DC because of what happened over and over again and now it looks as though modern Marvel is about to join it.
"It's okay for you -you can get work in comics easy!"
I did scripts for Marvel UK, Fleetway and others over the years and I get more ideas for comic strips and series in my head daily.
However, none of that means that I can just "walk into" comic work with a company because experience is not valued as much as ticking the right trendy boxes.
It is that simple. I was asked the other day whether I had ever submitted project ideas to Archie since I have never made a secret of the fact that I am a big fan of the companies action characters? Yes, I have. Last time was December 2025 and as usual not even the "professional courtesy" of a response.
Comics have always been a back-stabbing industry as Louise H. Diamond and others have found out over the decades. A contact with Fantagraphic Books in the U.S. showed that even written contracts are worth nothing if a publisher wants to screw you over with illegal sales of rights to foreign publishers against the contract. Money is the only interest people have so I learnt early on.
I have to put all the ideas have into Black Tower comics because, putting aside bigger companies, I have tried smaller Independent companies/publishers. No deal.
So please get the idea out of your head, if you ever think it, that I can make a living through other companies as a writer, etc. I cannot.
Wednesday, 4 February 2026
Tuesday, 3 February 2026
A Note
Having completed two books I am set to start lettering the third which is a graphic novel (over 100pp) and then I have to finish art on another project then letter some other books.
Since Mr Dilworth became ill BT has become a one man show and no one seems interested in working on projects for the fun of it (I certainly do not get paid!). So things can go fast or slow. I will update on projects as and when I can.
Just awaiting the ordered proof copies of CB3 and BTSH 2/1 then I can post how to order.
CB 3 and BTSH 2/1 Update
Here is the update for anyone interested out there.
Comic Bits 3 was finally finished late last night after a few technical problems which, honestly, never happened in the old cut and paste days before computers and PDF. Just fixing things I don't like (as well as some cover text) about the cover and it should be on sale later this month.
And... Black Tower Super Heroes volume 2 number 1is now completed. 80+ pages that I lost the dialogue text to but that never worries me as the story actually got improved. I blush at my genius 😂
This is NOT the final cover but the mock up. Apart from the Ben Dilworth art everything else has to go. Again, a later this month release.
Then onto the next book!
If I could pay I would have a team of artists!
Monday, 2 February 2026
Comic Bits No. 2 THE British Golden Age of Comics magazine!
Ed T Hooper-Scharf
A4
B&W
80 pp
£8.24
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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.
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!
Comic Bits:1 THE British Golden Age of Comics magazine!
A4
B&W
80pp
Text, comic strips and some rare photographs!
£8.24
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The return of THE British Golden Age of Comics magazine!
Interviews with Mike Western, John Cooper and Jon Haward plus a look at Ally Sloper on film, Defining the Ages of British Comics, William McCail plus a lot of art and stripwork.
The return of THE British Golden Age of Comics magazine!
Interviews with Mike Western, John Cooper and Jon Haward plus a look at Ally Sloper on film, Defining the Ages of British Comics, William McCail plus a lot of art and stripwork.
At this price -cheap!
D-Gruppe: The Zeit-Geist Saga (trade)
A4
B&W
164pp
£12.40
Germanys first super heroes have fumbled along since the “Externsteine Event” One day something crashes into forestry followed by a “white out” event and the appearance of the Pied Piper of Hameln and then the appearance Frederick Barbarossa seemingly out of history at D-Gruppe headquarters and his calling them into action.
At the Place of the Gods, D-Gruppe meets heroes from other German parallels –all targeted and some destroyed by a seemingly all powerful being known as “Zeitgeist” and the race is on to find and stop “It” But there is a traitor amongst the heroes.
They were Germanys first. Germanys best heroes. But will they live long enough to succeed in their task?
This book collects together the first adventure of D-Gruppe –Revenge Of The Ice Queen– along with the three part Zeitgeist saga and the 2012 annual that concluded the German super hero epic— plus other features! Art by Ben R. Dilworth and Art/Stories by Terry Hooper-Scharf
D-Gruppe Annual
A4
56pp
B&W
£8,15
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For D-Gruppe, Germany's first and only super team, things seem to have gone quiet since the Cross-worlds Zeitgeist event.
However, Tarot, the mystic, detects a great evil below D-Gruppe's very own HQ.
The ultimate evil has returned and this time it isn't just a question of whether D-Gruppe can stop it but how many of them will die trying?
Part 2 of the Zeit Geist saga contained in that volume
D-Gruppe No. 4
A4
B&W
34pp
£7.95
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This is it! The final showdown with Zeitgeist -but with heroes already dead can D-Gruppe and the other heroes stop the world destroyer??
Plus -Kopfmann's first appearance before D-Gruppe and the origin of The Mummy -and a new feature The D-Gruppe Fact File.
You want more????
You ain't getting it!
D-Gruppe No. 3
A4
B&W
24pp
£5.50
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Now gathered at The Place Of The Gods, D-Gruppe meet heroes from other worlds that have been attacked or face attack by the Zeit-Geist.
Sent to seek out the enigmatic being, the group realises that something is wrong -and Zeit-Geist strikes from within!
D-Gruppe No. 2: Zeit-Geist
A4
B&W
22pp
Following the events of issue 1, Kopfmann has strengthened D-Gruppe but when confronted by a series of unusual events and equally unusual abductors, can the team face the threat of the world destroying Zeit Geist?
Part 1 of the Zeit Geist story arc.
note:events in D Gruppe 1-6 take place BEFORE the Return Of The Gods story in BT Adventure.
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