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Terry Doyle
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The page two to episode 1 of Project Nimbus resides in a collector friend's collection over here in the UK. Doubtful that he would ever part with it.
I sold one of the later Nimbus page 1s to an American collector about ten years ago (from, I think, the penultimate episode).
Another Nimbus page 2 that I know of (half-Harley/half-Bellamy) is on Comic Art Fans.
Peter Garriock (author of Masters of Comic Book Art) had a lot of Bellamy art, including some Dares (though I did acquire many of his best examples years ago). Haven't spoken to Peter in ages, so have no idea what he still owns
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John Byrne
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Putting together all of "Project Nimbus" is a fantasy, one I don't expect to really see fulfilled. File under "a fella can dream!"
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Rick Whiting
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Since you guys are Dan Dare fans I would like to know if you've seen the Dan Dare CGI animated TV series and what your opinion is of the show?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddroV1JD-ZA
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Terry Doyle
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I didn't really take to the animated series. Dan Dare is of a certain age/vintage that needs to be carefully thought-out to be updated for a modern audience.
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Terry Doyle
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Back in 1994 I was contributing a series of fanzine articles on Frank Bellamy.
These were all self-formatted pages in pre-home computer days, pasting-up typewritten text, images and letraset title blocks. Primitive stuff!
Looks very dated now, but it was okay at the time.
Here are scans of part 7 of my series. Because of size restrictions, most of the text will be illegible.
For this chapter, I'd conducted a postal interview with Don Harley, specifically asking for details about his year long stint working with Bellamy. Unfortunately, Don's memories had been dimmed over time, but he still manages to come up with some interesting observations.
I also included a number of readers' thoughts on the Bellamy year on Dare.
If anyone's sufficiently interested, I can re-type some of this material for this thread?
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And on a separate note, here's one of Frank Hampson's Modesty Blaise tryout strips (all pencils).
Hampson was the very first artist to be considered for the (then) proposed MB strip. The writer, Peter O'Donnell, pushed for his old partner Jim Holdaway to land the gig and the world was denied a Frank Hampson newspaper strip.
At one time I owned all the surviving Hampson samples. This one is the only daily that exists as pure pencils (the others are mostly partly-inked) . . .
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Close-up shot . . .
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