UPDATED September 2021
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Action 4 September 1976
showing a reprint from Eagle |
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Eagle 21 April 1962
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Original Art from Eagle 19 May 1962
(Thanks for Terry for permission to use this) |
In
a previous article I mentioned I think my favourite Bellamy strip is "Montgomery of Alamein" which appeared in
Eagle from Volume 13:10 - 13:27 (10 March 1962 -7 July 1962).If you would all like to donate to my "Buy Norman a lovely bit of Bellamy" fund, Terry Doyle is selling a piece I would love.
Terry has
an extensive gallery on ComicArtFans and the reason for writing about this to 1) make sure you're aware of CAF (where you can
also see all the Bellamys that people have uploaded) and also 2) that Terry is selling one of his prize collection for £7,000. This also gave me an excuse to write about something I recently discovered. This would make this piece the most expensive Bellamy artwork sold to date (to my knowledge!) and before you react like a modern social media troll, this is a prime example kept in great condition and unfaded. To contact Terry, login to CAF and click on
this link to his sale.
Battle Picture Weekly had a long history of changes, being a UK comic that existed in the time when UK comics' sales on newsstands were declining and mergers were all the rage. You can read more about it on
Wikipedia. Why do I mention it? I found that some of the war stories Bellamy illustrated were 'borrowed' for this comic.
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| 10 February 1979 |
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| Eagle Volume 13:14 7 April 1962 |
Look at the grey coloured panel on the left and compare it to the bottom image on
Battle Action! The image of Rommel above the headline "Kill Rommel!" is a famous photograph of the German. And before we leave the above
Eagle image, the soldier and the clock-face in the
Eagle comic are about to make an appearance!
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| Battle Action 5 May 1979 |
The next one shows the outline of the word WAR. Bellamy used this in the first episode of "Montgomery"as you can see below. The artist on
Battle Action seems to have taken inspiration from Bellamy even if the font and images inside it are not the same.
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| Battle Action 28 October 1978 |
There are several other covers scattered through the run that appear to be taken from photographic reference but that's all I could find that directly related to Bellamy. If you think you know better, please share with us!
Lastly as we are on the subject of the comic that brought us "Charley's War" and "Johnny Red" amongst others, the annual from 1976 contained a few shots taken from
Look and Learn - and yes! it's Bellamy again! The images are taken from
Battle Picture Weekly Annual 1976.
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Art: Unknown
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| Battle Picture Weekly Annual 1976, p73 |
And here's the
Look and Learn pages - crudely scanned and joined by me!
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| Look and Learn #452 15 September 1970 |
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Battle Picture Weekly Annual 1976, p74
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| Battle Picture Weekly Annual 1976, p76 |
The two above come from Look and learn
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