Lew Stringer Comics: Your daily Combat Colin: The Gunge! Part 4

Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Your daily Combat Colin: The Gunge! Part 4

It's the showdown between Combat Colin and The Gunge with the daftness level going up to 11! A Combat Classic from the pages of The Transformers No.241, dated October 28th 1989.

Want to see more old Combat Colin strips? Let me know!

To catch up with previous episodes:

Part 1:
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/your-daily-combat-colin-gunge-part-1.html

Part 2:
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/your-daily-combat-colin-gunge-part-2.html

Part 3:
http://lewstringercomics.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/your-daily-combat-colin-gunge-part-3.html

3 comments:

Manic Man said...: ^_^ a classic. Lets hope you are able to get that book done sometime.

Something I would comment on.. Combat Colin seamed very popular in Transformers which is why it ended up full page and all, but it still seamed odd when then Robocop 2 story was printed in the one annual (I would have to check to remember which year) in colour, along side one Marvel UK Transformers story. Any thing special that lead to that or just that they wanted to fill some space?; 23 July 2013 at 13:33
Lew Stringer said...: I think the RoboCol story was in colour originally too. I presume they wanted the annual to reflect the weekly but the budget wasn't high enough to afford a new Combat Colin story.

Marvel also reprinted various Combat Colin strips in their Bumper Comic, alongside Doctor Who and other stuff. I'll have to dig those out one day. Not sure where they are at present. We had a small reprint payment for the Bumper Comic stuff though, which was good.; 23 July 2013 at 14:02
Peter Gray said...: A great daft fun story...thinking about it Tom Thug had a few longer stories...

I really hope you get that whole page in The Beano every week it is a crime not to...
I love his salute! love little jokes in comic pages..; 23 July 2013 at 23:14

A brief history:

I've worked as a freelance professional humour comics artist and writer for 40 years. I sold my first cartoon in 1983 and since then have created many characters such as TOM THUG, PETE AND HIS PIMPLE, COMBAT COLIN, BRICKMAN, ROBO-CAPERS, DEREK THE TROLL, TOUGH GUY AND SCRUFFY, SUBURBAN SATANISTS, SGT.SHOUTY and others.

My clients include IPC, Marvel Comics, Egmont, Panini, D.C. Thomson, Rebellion and many others, covering the comics field from originated characters to licensed properties, pre-school to adult on comics such as BUSTER, OINK!, BEANO, DANDY, TRANSFORMERS, SONIC THE COMIC, TOXIC, VIZ, CiTV TELLYTOTS, LEGO ADVENTURES, HERMAN HEDNING, SWEET FA, ACTION FORCE, SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN, RAMPAGE, LUCKY BAG COMIC, SWIFTSURE, WARLOCK, WHITE DWARF, ACES WEEKLY, THE DAREDEVILS, THE MIGHTY WORLD OF MARVEL, and many more.

My recent comics work includes:

'The Daft Dimension' for DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 'Keyhole Kate' and 'Postman Prat' for THE DANDY ANNUAL and THE DANDY SUMMER SPECIAL 'Sgt.Shouty' for The77.

'Bad Pets' for ANIMAL PLANET Magazine.

'Short Sharp Shocks' for THIS COMIC IS HAUNTED

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