Tales about Dick Millington!

On a fellow comics blog I shared one of my two 100% true stories about the great cartoonist Dick Millington! I really like the stories about him, so I thought I'd share them both here!

Dick Millington had always had a lot of money as he had inherited it from a family member, and one day he decided to buy a new, gold (in colour, not material!) Jaguar! Soon after buying the car  he finished some artwork he was working on, and put it in the boot of his car to take to work to deliver them by hand.

When he got there, he walked inside to tell them he was here, but when he returned outside his car had been stolen! He immediatly called police, and after telling them what happened, they replied:

"We can understand your loss Sir, and we'll try all we can to get your car back."

Dick Millington replied saying:

"I don't care about the car, I care about the drawings in the boot!" 

The second story isn't as intresting, but I thought I'd share it anyway.

One day, a man phoned up Dick Millington asking him if he had any original artwork for sale. Dick never sold any of his artwork and it was all stacked up in the garage. When the man arrived he walked into the garage and it was piled full of drawings which filled the room to the roof!

When looking through them, several rows in completely covered in drawings was an old, dusty Ferrari! Dick had bought it brand new in a showroom, and after driving it a few times he had left it in the garage and hadn't driven it for 20 years!

TV Comic Annual 1961

This TV Comic annual was certainly good value for money when it was released back in 1960! Why? Because not only was it crammed full of great stories, but every single page is in full colour! The Beano wasn't even doing that in the 80's (the colour that is, not the stories...)!

The first story we start off with is 'Four Feather Falls', a western, based on the television show of the same name. I don't know if it has the same story as the show (although I doubt it), but basically what happens is there a wagon train heading to a small town, who are then joined by a group of Bandits who plan to steal their money when they stop. Art by Neville Main.

Lenny the Lion is a strange strip, based on Terry Hall's creation and drawn by Bill Mevin, the loveable Lion enjoys or suffers everyday adventures that ususally go wrong! Very funny and well thought.

Lochy - The Funny Wee monster is a story about a Scottish monster who gets up to pretty much anything, only it backfires each time! A brilliant story - and a similar sort of storyline to Lenny The Lion.

Mighty Moth was the strangest character in the book. A talking moth who can eat half a canoe in a number of seconds?! In one of the stories he is even considered a common moth - despite the fact he can wash himself and explain that he's just green because of some paint?! Artwork by Dick Millington.

Super Nan is my favourite strip, a good, clever idea with a funny theme! The sort of thing you would expect to find in the fleetway titles, but sadly this is the first time I've ever seen it, and she only has two pages.

There are also a few other stories including Coco the Clown, Packi, Red Ray, The Bakers' Dozen, Mark of the Scorpion and text stories Animals only and Larry the Lamb.

And how much did this book cost me? 25p! Baragin!