In the past I have sent the blog photos of figures I converted to be Jet-Ace Logan a comic character from the 1950's that was created to follow the interest shown in Dan Dare.
The strips appeared weekly in COMET and later complete stories appeared in Fleetway's digest size Monthly Picture Library.
For me the B/W stories were great fun to read and were more aimed at my age group, I was around 10 years old, whereas Dan Dare was really aimed at an older age group.
Here is a reminder of the figures and a spacecraft adapted to be like the ones in the strip.
The great news, for me and hopefully other blog readers is that the COMET stories have just been published by Book Palace and Rebellion in one great volume, art same size as originally printed. This follows on from their reprint volume of some of the Picture Library stories.
My photos don't do justice to the book, which is a limited edition so if anyone is interested visit the Book Palace Web-site.
Fleetway's digest size Monthly Picture Library.
I have attached a fanzine review of Jet-Ace for those readers unfamiliar with him.
Terranova47
USA
Looks a great read and you can see the passion that's gone into that book Terran.
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It's wonderful that you recall my early feature about 'Jet-Ace Logan' from the fondly-remembered 'Fantasy Advertiser', although I feel it's only fair to point out that there are what I have subsequently discovered to be factual inaccuracies within this text which I've more recently been in the fortunate position of correcting...
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