2000AD sticker

I found a small quantity of these at a car boot sale. I believe they're promotional stickers from circa mid-late 80s. Pretty nice quality measuring about 12cm diameter. 

Tattoo tat

A while ago I picked up a pile of old trading cards and assorted small bits of ephemera, and nestled in there was a bunch of those old lick n stick tattoo type things. I remember the tiny books of tattoos that came out of the 10p egg machines, I think these might have just come in pairs in those eggs. I'm guessing these are circa late 70s/ early 80s, and the couple of horror ones seem to be from a different series. I put these on my lightbox for a closer look, and tweaked the contrast a little. Some very groovy designs.

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.

Marvel UK Savage Sword of Conan #1 November 1977 back cover pinup by John Buscema

This was a little comic thing that came with Tonka's Supernaturals figures.

Walls Ice Cream fun books 1981 ad 1982

Walls Mini Ha-Ha Ice Cream Fun book 1981 and Ice Scream Fun book 1982, both featuring strips with lovely art by Robert Nixon.

In both books most of the pages are just black and white text pages of puzzles/wordsearches, jokes with spot illustrations of the products or how to make things out of lolly sticks, some illustrated by Nixon and others possibly just stock illustration. These are all the strips and the covers.