Advertisements for the upcoming Robo Machines comic strip in Eagle comic. These were from Eagle #135, 136 and 137, October/November 1984

Batman Orange Hand promo

I picked up a good Batman oddity at London Comic Mart today for a mere 80p. A promo order form thingy for Orange Hand, which was a boys' clothing shop in the early 70s. Orange Hand is a great name for a villain.

X-Force hate mail

In 2001, the new Editor in Chief at Marvel, Joe Quesada gave a few titles a bit of a facelift, including several of the X-Men titles. One of these was X-Force, which Pete Milligan and Mike Allred took over pretty abruptly on #116. It lasted until #129, at which point the series was cancelled/rebooted/restarted as X-Statix. Here are some letters published in various issues after #116, from some irate readers at the time, who were less than appreciative of the overhaul.

Deathtrap Dungeon treasure

Picked up an old copy of Ian Livingstone's Deathtrap Dungeon in a charity shop for 99p, but if that wasn't good enough the original owner had included a map and his stats sheet. Love it!

Upon further perusal, I discovered a label at the back of the book, showing the name of  the original owner and presumably budding cartographer.

Alex Toth's 7-Zark-7 sketch for Battle of the Planets

I dug out my Official Battle of the Planets Guidebook for a decent scan of Alex Toth's early sketch of the character who would become 7-Zark-7.

BONANZA PRIZE TIME! Spider-Man Weekly #85 Sept 28 1974

The back cover of this issue featured some superb prize winning entries for a Grand Gizmo competition.