*Boys’ Adventure & War Picture Libraries: A further update to war-themed Picture Libraries, all pre-decimal, including Combat, Commando (between #200-500), Lion, Valiant & War (from #3).

*TV & Film Related Comics: A nice-graded consecutive run from #1-23 of the excellent British Horror mag House Of Hammer (later Hammer’s hall Of Horrors), chock full of features, photos and comic strips focused, as you would imagine, on the phenomenal success of the British film-making company Hammer.

*Girls’ Comics: A small update to those two rival spooky girls’ weeklies, Misty & Spellbound. Ever popular with both our male and female collectors, now’s the chance to grab some fresh issues to fill your gaps!

*Marvel: Following his successful return to action in Avengers #4, Golden Age icon Captain America became a co-feature with Iron Man in Tales of Suspense, until a change of distributors’ allocation meant that Marvel could expand its range – and finally, with issue #100, (Continuing the Suspense numbering), Captain America had his own series again – and he’s never looked back! This copy of #100 new in is VF+ at £100, a pence-stamped copy but with a lovely clean cover image and exceptional page quality. Interest in Cap is amping ever upward, and high-grade unslabbed copies are scarce, so get your order in early! SORRY, THIS HAS NOW SOLD

*Marvel: ‘A Special Once-In-A-Lifetime Issue’, the cover of this one-shot boasted, and its unique position is simply a result of a scheduling tangle which arose when Marvel was finally allowed by its distributors to increase its range of titles. The Hulk took over the numbering of Tales to Astonish, and Captain America the numbering of Tales of Suspense, but that left ‘orphaned’ chapters of the Iron Man and Sub-Mariner serials languishing, so they were used in this oddball one-off so that both Iron Man and the Sub-Mariner could start off their #1’s with clear storylines.  This UK price-stamped copy is in a superb grade (VF+ £100), with only the very faintest corner wear preventing a higher grade. The white-background cover is clean and unmarked, and the cover and gloss vivid and fresh. One of the easiest Silver Age Marvel titles to complete – buy one and you’ve bought them all!

*Marvel: 1982 is a bit ‘recent’ for our palates, as we tend to focus on all things Gold, Silver & Bronze in our backstock, but occasionally a newer comic catches the public interest, and this is one such exception. In Hulk #271, the Jade Giant hosted a guest-star who at the time was treated as a joke, but who has since become a major player following his starring role in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Yes, Hulk #271 is the second appearance – and the fist full-length, full-colour comic-book appearance – of Rocket Raccoon, and has skyrocketed in collectible and commercial importance over the last year and a half. This copy is a very nice VF/NMp condition, with just a tiny spine crease or two and a small back cover crease towards the upper spine, offered for £125, and features all the quality you’d expect from the creative team of Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema. Enjoy!

*Rupert: A long overdue update to our Rupert section, which has now been completely overhauled to include additional new annuals in from 1950’s to the 1980’s, as well as vintage Rupert Adventures comics from the 1950’s and issue #1 of the 1982 comic with free gift (badge). Nutwood’s favourite son is a real favourite here at 30th Century too!

*TV & Film Related Comics: The ever-popular Time Lord returns to our updates with a series of seasonal Dr Who specials from the 1980’s and 1990’s, including the Movie Special and the 30th Anniversary Special, plus a range of Classic Comics, reprinting vintage Dr Who comic strips and with free gifts in the form of posters all included.

*Annuals: An entire decade of Beano Annuals fresh in from 1980-1989, plus the Dr Who Annual from 1993 and the Transformers Annual 1994.

*TV & Film Related Comics: Whew — we’ve just finished listing every last issue of the Marvel UK Transformers series from #1-332 plus #1-18 of the Collected Comics specials! The comic version of this phenomenal franchise based on the Hasbro toy line lasted longer in the UK than its contemporary American counterpart, and thus, as well as reprinting the US material, the UK version also featured a swathe of original material. Many issues still have their Free Gifts, and in #113, we see the first appearance of Death’s Head. As we all know, the Trasformers’ success has continued to grow over the decades, but here’s a chance to get in on the ground floor with all 332 issues from 1984-1991.

*Marvel: A nice update to Tales of Suspense from the mid-1960’s when the title was shared between Iron Man & Captain America. New issues in are between #65 & #95, and feature among many other foes of both Avengers, the dynamic debuts of the Titanium Man & Modok. With a couple of exceptions, these incoming issues are high grade, with many cents copies and ranging from FN+ through to VF+.

*Crime, Spies & Sleaze: Ben Sarto was one of the most famous/infamous names of post-war UK ‘gangster digest’ pulp crime; all his stuff is long out of print and notoriously difficult to get hold of. Despite claiming that millions of these were sold, very few seem to have survived. Here we have a nice example: published by Modern Fiction, Hi-Jacker’s Lady, a crime thriller set in the days of US Prohibition laws, full of gangsters, molls and the like. Sporting a nice cover by H W Perl, this is a decent, unmarked GD/VG copy with some spine and edge wear but intact and solid. Definitely one for the collector/enthusiast of this genre at £35.

*Marvel: A quintet of significant issues for Marvel’s Sentinel of the Spaceways, the Silver Surfer. We have his earliest appearances in Fantastic Four #48-50, in what has subsequently become known as “The Galactus Trilogy”, where not only the Surfer himself, but his planet-popping master Galactus, make their debuts – and the Marvel Universe is never the same again! We follow that with a very attractive copy of issue #2 of the Surfer’s own series, with the first appearance of the malevolent Badoon, and round it off with the 1982 one-shot which reunited Stan Lee (with the artistic assistance of Messrs. Byrne and Palmer) with one of his favourite creations. Fantastic Four #48 VG £100, #49 FN £85, #50 VG- £60, Silver Surfer #2 FN/VF £65, Silver Surfer Vol 2 #1 FN/VF £10.

*Modern Reprints: A return to our stock lists for items previously discontinued: DC’s Archives and Showcase Editions and Marvel’s Essentials were at one time commonplace, but now are increasingly out-of-print and hard to find. We’re continuing to re-establish our inventory with an offering of Justice League Archives, Superman Showcase Edition, and Essential Tomb of Dracula, with more to come gradually in the months ahead.

*Vintage Magazine-Sized Comics: This week’s magazine update features something a bit more fringey from Marvel’s 1970’s  magazine line: Monsters of the Movies was the House of Idea’s shameless attempt to cash in on Famous Monsters of Filmland, and as such the comics content is minimal – one strip each in the first two issues. The main features are on contemporary and historical horror and science-fiction movies, with loads of stills. It’s a must-have for all Marvel Mag completists, and less often seen than its contemporaries. We have almost all of the eight-issue run (lacking only #5), in addition to the one-off Annual, all in mid-high grades, though all except the Annual bear either price stickers or some residue from label removal.

*Boys’ Adventure & War Comics: A surprisingly robust latecomer to D.C. Thomson’s action titles was Scoop, which launched in January 1978 and ran until 1981. This sport-centred weekly offered fare that was a bit off the beaten path, including Jon Stark, Footballer of the Future, and “Killer”, the story of a tennis pro who doubled as a hitman! The first issue is now available, in very nice FN condition for a mere £10.

*TV & Film Related Comics: Just time for a quickie: 2 issues of Solo new in, one of the rarest of all British comics from 1967. We hardly ever see these, and when we do, they don’t stay with us for long! This update: #3 GD/VG £32.50, #13 GD £15.

*Girls’ Comics: A set of Emmas, with nearly every issue from #3 to #18, and a few later ones from 1978 (all GD or VG). A pioneer in interviewing Z list slebs, Emma has features on all the stars you would expect from the late 1970’s: Cheggers, David Soul, Mark Hamill, Charlie’s Angels and (ahem) Jimmy Savile, with a later attempt to inject some cool by including the Fonz and Debbie Harry. Non-human stars include Emu, the Wombles, Basil Brush and, a role-model for women everywhere, Miss Piggy. How can you resist?

*Girls’ Comics: 4 new issues of Lucky Charm just in! #4 (Little Miss Feather Feet), #5 (Sally The Slave-Girl Star), #6 (Trudy Ten-Legs) and #24 (Sheena – Slave Of the Tennis Racket). These done-in-one compilations don’t last long, so fast action may be required to secure them!

*Marvel: Following on from the debut of the black costume (that became Venom) in Secret Wars #8, Spidey donned the same for the first time in his regular series in #252, a landmark issue that also reprised the first Spidey cover from Amazing Fantasy #15. This is a decent FN/VF (p) copy at £20.

*Girls’ Comics: A few dozen issues of Judy new to our listings, including some from a couple of years previously unrepresented. The update is mainly from 1963, but there are also issues from 1968, 1970, 1971, 1974, 1975 & 1976.

*DC: All of DC’s tabloid-size Limited/All-New Collectors’ Edition titles are scarce and highly sought-after, but this one – All-New Collectors’ Edition C55 – is the one most keenly sought, as it’s an all-new story marrying off two of the founding members of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl, with the rest of the Legion battling a reality-altering plot from one of their deadliest enemies! Known among Legion fandom as TFT – “That (Funloving) Tabloid” because of its rarity and its poor storytelling, it’s every bit as bad as it is rare.  Mike Grell was phoning in his pencils by this point anyway, and being heavily Colletta’ed *then* blown up to large size just amplified the faults – but it doesn’t matter if it’s terrible! Legion fans will have to buy it any way, no matter what! We did (I remember hunting it down for years as the last item to complete my Legion collection) – and now it’s your turn! Never reprinted, so you’ve just got to have it to fill that hole in your collection. The buyer’s remorse starts here!

*Marvel: “This Female Fights Back!” was the tagline of Ms. Marvel, Marvel Comics’ attempt to publish a solo heroine with a bit more longevity than 1972’s Claws of the Cat. Spinning out of Captain Marvel, former background character Carol Danvers got her own set of super-powers and a whole new supporting cast (including J. Jonah Jameson) as she attempted to discover the mystery behind her own origins. Although moderately successful, the series was attacked by critics who derided Carol’s derivative costume, which allegedly made her look like Captain Marvel’s sidekick, and the fact that Marvel were offering a ‘powerful, confident’ heroine who suffered from blackouts and amnesia. Despite these jibes, Ms. Marvel has been a prominent member of the Marvel Universe for nearly forty years in one guise or another – whether as Ms. Marvel, Binary, Warbird, or most recently the latest Captain Marvel, her chequered history has provided many intriguing plotlines. Soon to star in a major film, Ms. Marvel’s career starts here, with her first issue in an attractive VF- pence copy (£30), as well as four others from her first series.

*Teen Humour/Funny Girls: This update, a merry myriad of Timely/Atlas’ answer to Archie Comics, Patsy Walker. Created by Stan Lee and Ruth Atkinson for Miss America Magazine #2, the red-headed teen everygal proved so popular that by 1945 she had her own title, as well as more than a dozen spin-offs over her 21-year career. Her earlier issues, mainly illustrated by animator Pauline Loth, featured teen-comedy shticks of romantic misunderstandings, which lasted through the 1950’s under illustrators such as Dave Berg, Morris Weiss and Al Jaffee among others. By the 1960’s, Al Hartley had taken over as the main artist, and the title edged over from comedy into out & out romance, with declamatory and lachrymose covers.  This restock is of more than thirty issues, ranging from 1946’s #7 to 1965’s #124, Patsy’s final issue, including team-ups with Millie the Model and Linda Carter, Student Nurse! As a bonus, we have a lovely condition copy of the 1966 one-shot, Patsy Walker’s Fashion Parade, a Queen-Sized special with no comics stories, but simply page after page of pin-ups, hairdo suggestions, and “fashions from fans” that were obviously prepared well before Patsy’s cancellation. This ingenious way of using up inventory was Patsy’s farewell to the Marvel Universe for a few years – until she snuck in through the back door by becoming a supporting character for the Beast, parlaying that into her current gig as a fully-fledged super-heroine, the Hellcat!

*Marvel: Another graceful glide over the first decade of the Marvel Universe brings us re-stocks to many major titles: Captain Marvel (from #2 upwards), Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Journey Into Mystery (with the premiere appearances of three of the God of Thunder’s deadliest enemies – the Absorbing Man, the Enchantress, and the Executioner!), Marvel Collector’s Item Classics #1, Marvel Super-Heroes (starring Spider-Man, the Black Knight, and the magnificent Madam Medusa!), Spider-Man, Tales to Astonish, and the X-Men (including the first appearances of the jovial Juggernaut and the ever-smiling Sentinels!). A cornucopia of classics, together again for the first time – because YOU demanded it!