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One thing that frustrates me: recording a programme on the television, with plans to watch it later, only to find the ending has not recorded! Or not knowing the ending of a serial. Anyone share that frustration? I believe it all stems from my younger days, when I started reading this weekly serial in the English boys' comic, Valiant... And even though my father kindly asked the newsagent to keep a copy aside for me each week, I never got to find out how this serial ended! Of all the incomplete programmes and stories that I have never found out the ending to, this is the one I would most like to see reprinted! Just to find out what happened at the end of the story! Of course, I don't even know who owns the present copyright to this material, once published by Fleetway Publications in the 1960s... From memory, I think the "monster" ended up being the boys' headmaster; but what happened to the people in the town and how normal life resumed, I have no way of knowing! I suppose that is why a lot of people end up becoming comic book collectors. But I have not the time! Even so, it is quite difficult to locate some of these old English comics....even with the modern-day benefits of eBay....
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6/7/2015 08:25:17
According to Google it was drawn by Bill Lacey. The backgrounds are similar to those in 'Mytek the Mighty' so I'd guess it was him.
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6/7/2015 09:07:43
Good old Google!
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Marques Man
9/7/2015 21:10:29
Egmont holds the rights to all post-1950 Fleetway/IPC/Odhams material, including "The Last Boys in the World". I don't know who wrote it though.
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9/7/2015 22:11:17
Ah, you are a man after my own heart, Marques! I do appreciate that information. THANK YOU for your informative comment.
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Not Now
11/7/2015 09:22:57
Could you please advise the issue date these pages are from?
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11/7/2015 14:22:25
Certainly, Not Now!
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Not Now
12/7/2015 07:37:44
Rather a long story. The final part was in the 20th May 1967 issue. Please check your mailbox for a copy.
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13/7/2015 00:59:25
I have just read an email from "Not Now" (George Lee) who has done me the greatest service in my comic book life, by electronically passing on to me the final episode of "The Last Boys in the World"!
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Comicoz......acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to all First Australian peoples. Nat KarmichaelOver the past decade (2011 - 2020) Nat has self-published ten comic-related books and was Publisher-Editor of Oi Oi Oi! - the last nationally-distributed comic book of original comics stories to appear on Australian newsstands. He edited Inkspot, the journal of the Australian Cartoonists Association for 14 issues from late 2015 to 2019 and is a current member of the ACA's Committee. In his spare time, he is a husband, a father (to six) and grandfather (to fourteen), and works in the Psychiatric Emergency Centre in Queensland's largest public hospital. Comicoz is Nat Karmichael's publishing imprint. Nat is committed to preserving a permanent collection of Australian comic and comic strips. He feels that there is a need to recognise comics' contribution to and depiction of Australian culture.
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