*Humour Comics: Three fabulous first issues – and one scintillating second ish – grace our shelves this week. First, we have Nutty #1 from 1980, the first appearance of TV and merchandising star Bananaman, who featured in every issue until the title’s close in 1985, after which he continued in Dandy and then leapt over to Beano, where he resides today. This copy is an attractive FN at £20. Then the premiere of the somewhat infamous Sparky from the unenlightened year of 1965, where racist caricature ‘hosts’ were still apparently A Thing. Nevertheless, Sparky had a very respectable run, racking up more than 650 weekly issues until 1977, and this is where it all got started; VG/FN £65. Lastly, we the debut of have Whizzer & Chips, which is extremely well-remembered, running more than a thousand issues from 1969 to 1990. We have two first issues of Whizzer & Chips in stock, one GD with the partial Free Gift in FA/GD at £50 (the ‘Sid’s Stickers’ have come adrift from their backing sheet, and one has gone missing entirely), and another FA at £20. As a bonus, we also have a brace of second issues. The nicer copy is GD/VG £65 with a Free Gift – Sid the Charmer ‘Flick Book’ in VF. The second is a FA/GD £12.50.