The second volume of the new look Black Tower Adventure featuring “The Return Of The Gods” will be out in July as will volume 4 of BTCGs Golden Age UK Collection. Until then,here is a list of what is currently available:
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Mark Tyme Collection
Only two issues were published of The Adventures of Mark Tyme. As with the companion title,The Purple Hood,the artist was Michael Jay who has since faded into obscurity. Join Mark Tyme on his time travelling adventures to Roman Britain,the Stone Age,a pirate island,9th century Britain,outer space and other destinations.
Print: £7.00
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THE PURPLE HOOD
It was the Swinging Sixties! Britain was hip as hip could be -The Beatles ruled Pop! And everyone was looking toward a bright future…if there wasn’t a nuclear war! Middle Eastern threats,Eastern European fascists,flying saucer flying megalomaniacs and super mole machines and others threatened our little island. But we had the ultimate answer to these:The Purple Hood -International crime-smasher! Michael Jay’s Purple Hood now collected into over a hundred pages of action and text back-up. This is THE ultimate collection!
Print: £5.00
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Black Tower Silver Age
Magno! Electro! The Phantom [no,not THAT Phantom]! Miniman! Some of the forgotten heroes of the British Silver Age soon to return in a new series but here are their origin stories from 1971! Following on from reviving lost heroes of the British Golden Age,Black Tower present some of the little known about heroes of the Silver Age.
Print: £5.50
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BLACK TOWER GOLD vol.1
For the first time in 60 years some of the lost gems of the British Golden Age of Comics are reprinted! Scanned and cleaned to the best standard possible -see The Phantom Raider,Ace Hart,Secrets Of The Super Sargasso Sea,Phantom Maid,Electrogirl,Skybolt Kid,Wonder Boy,Dene Vernon,Professor Atom and many,many others! Its fun and action all the way -The British Golden Age shines through!
Print: £5.00
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black tower gold 2
The second collection of British 1940s comic strips featuring Maxwell The Mighty,Slicksure,Iron Boy,Alfie,Ace Hart and more. Featuring the work of Alf Farningham and Harry Banger. Specifically designed to feature more humour than the previous volume this should be a treat for all comic collectors. Reprinting the full content of The Meteor and The Rocket Comics from 1948.
Print: £6.00
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Black Tower Gold 3
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! Included in this volume is a bumper crop of Ace Hart:The Atom Man strips and an article on the character. A complete 1949 comic in Smugglers Creek;Denis Gifford’s Search For The Secret City and science fiction legend Bryan Berry’s rendition of Kid Carter -Teenage Tec! A must for all comic collectors and historians.
Print: £6.00
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BACK FROM THE DEAD
William McCail’s 1940 classic is reprinted for the first time in 60 years. If you are into British Golden Age comics or early comics in general this is for you. Robert Lovett rises from the dead and finds he has some startling powers:deaths follow,as does a determined Scotland Yard detective determined to track down the mysterious killer!
Print: £5.00
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Krakos:The Sands Of Terror
Created by William A. Ward for Swan Comics in the 1940s,Krakos was one of Ward’s supernatural anti-hero types. Used,with Swan’s permission,in Black Tower Adventure strips in the 1980s/1990s,this is the character’s first solo outing. The book contains information on Ward and his work plus sample pages rescued after 60 years of neglect!
Print: £5.00
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THE BAT TRIUMPHANT!
In 1941,The Bat sets about modernising the backward Duchy of Stahl,over which his dynasty has ruled since 1410 A.D.. The Bat is soon involved in experiments with the infamous Count Cogliostro. One of these experiments involves suspended animation;The Bat deciding he will be the test subject. When he wakes,The Bat finds that not days have gone by but 51 years! Worse,his kingdom is in ruins and an enclave of Kamora. The Bat tries politics to win back his homeland and when that fails he decides to fight for it! However,he is unaware that some old,and new,enemies are lying in wait to stop him and all of them want one thing:The Bat dead! Originally a back up strip in Black Tower Adventure in 1994,The Bat proved very popular as an anti-hero. The story was never completed. It is now. And there was another Bat. 1952 saw George McQueen’s Bat appear to fight any and all supernatural menaces. This book contains an original strip plus a new one drawn in 2007. This is the complete book of The Bat!
Print: £5.00
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The Centaur Heroes vol.1
Centaur -the short-lived publishing house of some of the first and most unique Golden Age heroes that still live on in legend today! The Eye Sees! Truly weird and bizarre! The Clock! Airman! The Sparkler! The Blue Lady! Plymo! The Arrow! And others. Volume 1 is a treat for all Golden Age comic fans and a must have!
Print: £6.00
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CENTAUR HEROES Vol.2
The Skull,The Shark,The Blue Lady and Amazing Man! These were part of the First Wave of US Golden Age comics that also includes Mini Midget and Mighty Man. This book also reprints the one and only appearance of the very first comic book Owl from 1940! A must for comic fans and Golden Age buffs!
Print: £6.00
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The Ultimate Owl Collection
Created in 1940 by Frank Thomas,The Owl is still fondly remembered by Golden Age comic fans -and Silver Age fans! This collection features three Golden Age stories,including the first appearance of Owl Girl. The 1967 first issue is reprinted and so is The Occult Files Of Dr Spektor from 1976 guest starring…The Owl! A must for collectors.
Print: £7.00
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TALES OF TERROR
The main feature,The Curse Of The McQuilligans starring Xendragon,leads off this collection of horror,ghostly and twist-in-the-tail stories. The classic Torch Of Vengeance is a tale of a wife’s rather Gothic vengeance while Graveyard is a cautionary tale for those curious to look into graves! Demons,time travel and much more.
Print: £5.50
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Journey Of The Id:The Dr Morg Trilogy
Metapsychophysics meets comics. Its the next natural evolutionary step in comic books! For the first time all three parts of the highly acclaimed Dr. Morg Trilogy are combined into one volume:WORDS WITHIN WORLDS,AFTER ORWELL and the final explosive THE DEATH OF DR. MORG!
Print: £5.00
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Merriwether:God’s Demon-Thumper
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! If you were into Charlton Horror Comics or any horror comic then this one is for you!
Print: £5.00
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BTCG ADVENTURE
It’s back! Twenty-five years ago the digest sized Black Tower Adventure first appeared featuring some later-to-be top UK talents and the title was put on hiatus in 2007. Now it’s back,bigger and better than ever! Part 1 of the mega Return Of The Gods:Twilight Of The Super Heroes comes in at 43 pages! Thaddeus Twatt In The Twatt-Verse -first part of a truly microscopic titanic tales [which makes sense if you read it!]. Kotar & Sabuta race to face The Deadly Dilemma Of Sigismund Benfriggisund! The cold war between China and Russia couldn’t get any hotter as The Phoenix Team stumble into the evil Salamander’s plan. And more? Of course. Comics ARE Fun!
Print: £6.00
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THE HOOPER INTERVIEWS
Terry Hooper first began interviewing Small Press creators in 1984 and this led on to Independent comic creators. In a comic journalism career spanning 25 years and involving hundreds of interviewees from the UK,Europe and USA,Terry has created a short-list of his favourites. interviewees in this book include: Donna Barr Roberta Gregory Marv Wolfman Jon Haward Kate Glasheen Alan Class yishan Li Emma Vieceli Sonia Leong Mike Western and John Cooper Over 30 creators/publishers interviewed in this first volume making it a piece of comics history.
Print: £15.00
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Some Things Strange And Sinister
Recognised as an expert on UFOs,Terry Hooper is recognised as an authority on “unexplained mysteries” and after more than 35 years as an investigator and more than forty as a naturalist,he has opened some of the many case files he has accumulated dealing with such things as.. The Terrifying Events At The Lamb Inn,The Ghosts Of All Saints Church,Dead Aquatic Creatures of Canvey Island,captured bigfoot like creatures in India -all exclusively presented for the first time and with new added research previously unseen. Photographs,maps,line drawings and more to make 305 pages looking at Things truly Strange and Sinister. Cryptozoologist,Ghost Hunter,Ufologist or Fortean:this book has something for everyone -including the just plain inquisitive!
Print: £12.00
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Some More Things Strange And Sinister
Following up on the successful Some Things Strange And Sinister,Terry Hooper-Scharf opens up more of his files and looks into more mysteries such as Crocodiles in Medieval England,Giant and Mystery Snakes,Medieval Sky-ships,The Beast of Gevaudan,The Girt Dog of Ennerdale,The Beast of Faudier,History’s real Wild-men,The Silent City in the skies of Alaska,the ‘unexplainable’ ghost photo,the Greenwich Park Elemental,the hidden history of gorillas –before they were ‘discovered’,the Giant Serpent of Carthage and more including Tabor’s lost photograph of the Silent City and never before seen photograph of Wombwell’s “Jenny”.
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