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Saturday 30 July 2016

1971 No.4, 1973 No.41 and 1984 No.14...

A bumper lot this week, with No.4 from 1971 in full, No.41 from 1984 and Dan has sent another 1973 issue, No.41, and because it was pretty much ready to go, I decided to add it.
All are complete...enjoy...


30th January 1971 - No.4 (Full Issue)

Cover: Leslie Crowther
Strips: Crowther in Trouble (Tom Kerr), Freewheelers (Unknown), Wreckers at Dead Eye (Unknown) Please Sir! (Unknown) and Timeslip (Mike Noble).



6th October 1973 - No.41

Cover: Kevin Keegan by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: On the Buses (Harry North), Settle Down Now! with Ken Goodwin (Arthur Ranson), The Tomorrow People (John M. Burns), Les Dawson is Superflop (Arthur Ranson), The Adventures of David Cassidy (Alan Parry), The Fenn Street Gang (Unknown), Follyfoot (Mike Noble) and Doctor in Charge! (Tom Kerr) 

31st March 1984 - No.14

Cover: Shakin' Stevens.

Strips: Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), Terrahawks (Steve Kyte),
The Fall Guy (Jim Baikie), Knight Rider (Barrie Mitchell), Danger Mouse (Arthur Ranson)
and Bucks Fizz (Raymond).


Sunday 24 July 2016

1971 No.3 (Full) and 1982 No.12...

Here you go then the first update off the new drive, here is No.3 from 1971 in full and also No.12 from 1984, both complete.




23rd January 1971 - No.3

Cover: Geoffrey Bayldon.
Strips: Crowther in Trouble (Tom Kerr), Freewheelers (Unknown), Wreckers at Dead Eye (Unknown) Please Sir! (Unknown) and Timeslip (Mike Noble).


17th March 1984 - No.12

Cover: Kajagoogoo.

Strips: Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), Terrahawks (Jim Baikie),
The Fall Guy (Jim Baikie), Knight Rider (Barrie Mitchell)Danger Mouse (Arthur Ranson)and Bucks Fizz (Raymond).


Back later today...

I suppose you were wondering what has happened to the updates?...well my computer has been giving problems for some weeks now, and finally my hard drive gave out.  I received a new one in the post yesterday and my computer is now getting to something approaching normal.  I hope to have the next two issues up later today, they were uploaded to Mediafire before my computer went down, the page shouldn't take long to set up. For obvious reasons I don't have any 'On the Ball scrapbook' scanned, and this months 'Whole Story' took the knock but will be back next mid-month.

Monday 11 July 2016

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Don't know why, but today's On the Ball update has gone below Saturdays update...???

Sunday 10 July 2016

1971 No.2 (Full) and 1984 No.11...

So here is the moment maybe just a few of you have been waiting for, you've seen the strips again, and for a lot of people this will have been the main thing they wanted to see, but what about 'World of Sport'?, 'How'?', 'Survival'? and 'Magpie?, not to mention all those wonderful ads of yesteryear.


Well now you can as I reboot all the issues in full form.  The checklist will hopefully be back soon, any full issues that have been upped will have a red band like the one below.  Also, I will only be upping the issues I have that are actually full, but I have sources that may be able to help with missing pages. Also in time I will have to delete the links to the strip only issues to make room for the fulls, and time will tell if I have the space to up the whole series.


So here is No.2 from 1971 in full (No.1 is already up as a full issue) and to go with that we have No.11 from 1984 (Strips only), both complete...


16th January 1971 - No.2

Cover: Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart.
Strips: Crowther in Trouble (Tom Kerr), Freewheelers (Unknown), Wreckers at Dead Eye (Unknown) Please Sir! (Unknown) and Timeslip (Mike Noble).


10th March 1984 - No.11

Cover: Culture Club.

Strips: Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), Terrahawks (Jim Baikie),
The Fall Guy (Jim Baikie), Knight Rider (Barrie Mitchell)Danger Mouse (Arthur Ranson) and Bucks Fizz (Raymond).


Monday 4 July 2016

On the Ball Scrapbook Part 26...

Something for speed freaks this week, with features on Speed Skating and Motor Cycle Racing, and lots more...




On the Ball Scrapbook - Part 26

Posters:
Randy Mamola
Gordon Strachan
Alton Byrd and Peter Jeremich
Eric Hieden


On the Ball Scrapbook Part 25...

Two more Sports Arena's for you and after a summer break, the feature returned with yet another name change to Sports Spotlight, also there was now no figurehead, Brian Moore had been dropped but luckily Sheridon's drawings hadn't, so we continue, for a bit at least with these features, included this week is motor racing, Europa 80', rugby and karting...n.b. There were no posters with the motor racing or rugby features...



On the Ball Scrapbook - Part 25

Posters:
Roberto Bettiga, Juan Gomez Juanito and Francios Van Der Elst
Kenny Sansom


Sunday 3 July 2016

1979 No.52 and 1984 No.10...

This is the end of the 70's for now, all the issues I have access to have been upped.  Dan still has some 73's to send, but I haven't had them yet.  My intention from next update is to reboot the 70's issues as full issues.  I'll go into more detail as to how this will work next update and rest assured as I get new issues they will be upped, first as strips, then fully as I get to them.


Here we have No.52 from 1979 and also, No.10 from 1984. Both Mine and complete...


22nd December 1979 - No.52

Cover: Paul McCartney by Arnaldo Putzu.

Strips: The Benny Hill Page (Bill Titcombe), Sapphire & Steel (Arthur Ranson),
Enid Blyton's Famous Five (Mike Noble), Meet the Smurfs (Peyo),
Charlie's Angels (Jim Baikie), Battlestar Galactica (Martin Asbury) and
Mind Your Language (Bill Titcombe).


3rd March 1984 - No.10

Cover: Thompson Twins.

Strips: Rock on Tommy! with Cannon and Ball (Bill Titcombe), Terrahawks (Jim Baikie),
The Fall Guy (Jim Baikie), Knight Rider (Barrie Mitchell)Danger Mouse (Arthur Ranson) and Bucks Fizz (Raymond).