If you were reading along yesterday, today's star of Sunday Morning Funnies will likely come as no great surprise. Please welcome-
As mentioned yesterday, Adam had an ongoing strip in TV Comic from #s 788-835. Americans might have a little difficulty grasping long form story telling in short segments, something we'll see in much greater depth when we get to The Trigan Empire. But in UK comics, it's quite common to have lengthy stories told in one or two page chapters. (Well, maybe American audiences can feel somewhat familiar with getting only one or two pages of story per issue with the recent trend of "decompression" storytelling) At any rate, here's Adam Adamant's final tale in TV Comic. It came out just about the same time as the Adam Adamant annual, so it's a bit hard to be sure where his final story appeared. Of course, i could be entirely wrong and there are still other stories unknown to me waiting to be discovered. This final tale is only five single-page chapters:
Over in his annual, Adam gets the deluxe star treatment. (That means colour) Though dated 1968, it was released December of 1967, just as his run in TV Comic was winding up. As mentioned yesterday, three of the seven stories were presented in comic format. Here's the second of them:
As is often the case with early BBC series, many of the shows were lost to time. Only 16 episodes survive* from a mix of 35mm and 16mm prints. But they have been collected on DVD, and do include the first and last episodes. And so, Adam Adamant Lives on-
As mentioned yesterday, Adam had an ongoing strip in TV Comic from #s 788-835. Americans might have a little difficulty grasping long form story telling in short segments, something we'll see in much greater depth when we get to The Trigan Empire. But in UK comics, it's quite common to have lengthy stories told in one or two page chapters. (Well, maybe American audiences can feel somewhat familiar with getting only one or two pages of story per issue with the recent trend of "decompression" storytelling) At any rate, here's Adam Adamant's final tale in TV Comic. It came out just about the same time as the Adam Adamant annual, so it's a bit hard to be sure where his final story appeared. Of course, i could be entirely wrong and there are still other stories unknown to me waiting to be discovered. This final tale is only five single-page chapters:
Over in his annual, Adam gets the deluxe star treatment. (That means colour) Though dated 1968, it was released December of 1967, just as his run in TV Comic was winding up. As mentioned yesterday, three of the seven stories were presented in comic format. Here's the second of them:
As is often the case with early BBC series, many of the shows were lost to time. Only 16 episodes survive* from a mix of 35mm and 16mm prints. But they have been collected on DVD, and do include the first and last episodes. And so, Adam Adamant Lives on-
pages written by Thomas Woodman, art by Patrick Williams and Selby Donnison from TV Comic #s 831-835 and Adam Adamant Annual (1967)
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*(My information here may be out of date. There has been an active search for missing episodes, and i know that the audio for another one turned up this past year. Chances are good that there are currently more than 16 episodes.)
