British Comic Art: The Comet

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Friday, 8 June 2012

Jet-Ace Logan

I love Geoff Campion's spaceships in this strip. So improbable (compared to the fully-realised versions in Dan Dare which ran at the same time in the Eagle) and yet they give the strip a certain charm. This is from The Comet, dated October 6th 1956.

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