As promised, here it is... exclusive to Bear Alley! You saw it here first. Amazon.co.uk are already taking pre-orders and you can also orde...

Jeremy Briggs is back with... TANGUY AND LAVERDURE : THE AERONAUTS When Steve was trying to sort out last month w here ' The Flying...

Kevin McGarry has been a bit of a mystery name for many years to collectors of Gerry Anderson spin-offs. McGarry appeared briefly in the mid...

Some good news: Random House have officially announced The Bumper Book of Look and Learn now so my gagging order has been lifted. Only kidd...

James Edward Crabtree is a name new to collectors of old British story papers. Even when you hear that Crabtree was the author behind the de...

Apart from a break for lunch I've been wrestling with Karl the Viking since 9.30 this morning writing about Karl scriptwriters Ted Cowan...

We return to Robin Annual with a contributor to Robin Annual 5 (1957) although, thanks to the titles policy of anonymity, we don't kno...

Sad news reaches us: Angus McBride, one of the finest artists to work on Look and Learn , died on 15 May following a heart attack. McBride w...

Having resolved (kind of) the mystery of The Mysterious Mr. Hawkins , let's open up another can of worms. I mentioned a boys' adve...

My pal Ray Steptoe phoned a couple of days ago to ask if I knew anything about the above book. It turns out to be a bit of a mystery title, ...

Disneyland was the first Walt Disney tie-in produced by IPC. Launched in February 1971, it was their most global launch, designed for distri...

There seem to be an awful lot of interesting projects going on at the moment which have been pushing Bear Alley onto the back-burner. Not my...

(My thanks to Jeremy Briggs for the following report on the Christian Aid Book Sale in Edinburgh. Looks fantastic.) CHRISTIAN AID BOOK SALE ...

Just a quick one for tonight... Patricia Hubbard was listed as an illustrator in Robin Annual 1 and 2 (1953-54) and as a writer in the latt...