Monday, January 18, 2010

The Story of Garth the Strong; The Captive; Garth In Space; The Doomsmen & The Gold of Ragnarock

 Hello friends,

Sharing these strips at request of one of most active visitor OLD MAN MOZZ as sooner I could. Hoping you all will enjoy!

I found this information & these strips shared by Pete. All credits go to him.


He writes:

Garth is a UK comic strip which ran in the Daily Mirror from 1943 until 1997.

The strip is in the science fiction-adventure genre, Garth has traveled through time and space, met numerous famous people from history and even has a romance with Astra, the goddess of love.

The strip was created by Steve Dowling, an artist and writer for the Mirror, who worked on many of the strips created for the Mirror in the forties.

The art was by Dowling and John Allard until Dowling retired, after which Allard continued the art solo.

When Allard retired in 1971 the strip was continued by Frank Bellamy.

Prior to his work on Garth, Bellamy is most famous for his work in the UK weekly TV Century 21 where he drew the colour centrespread Thunderbirds strip, based on the Gerry Anderson tv show, from 1966 to 1969.

Bellamy worked on Garth until his untimely death in 1976 when Martin Asbury, another acclaimed UK artist, took over drawing the strip until it's conclusion in 1997.

Asbury also wrote the last seven stories.

On the writing side, the most notable writer of Garth is Peter O'Donnell who worked on Garth from 1953 to 1966. O'Donnell wrote some of the best stories in the series, including The Troll and The Rebels, an alternate Earth story where Garth is up against Adolf Hitler.

Recently the strip has made an online return on the Mirror's website.

This first upload contains several complete stories which have been scanned from the booklets available. They cover all the eras including the first digital story.

Garth In Space is from the Daily Mirror Annual 1970, drawn by the regular artists at the time, Steve Dowling and John Allard, and was scanned and edited by me.

The Gold of Ragnarock is the first story from the new online series. I edited the web pages but there were problems with the file, hence the fixed in the title. Thanks to Slinky who also did a second version.

The Doomsmen and The Beast of Ultor feature the work of Frank Bellamy.

The Captive is from 1957 and is written by Peter O'Donnell, with art by Dowling and Allard.

The Man-Hunt is the last story Frank Bellamy drew, and was finished by Martin Asbury.

Sapphire is by Martin Asbury.

The Story of Garth the Strong is a preview of the first Garth story.

In the paper it was just titled 'Garth', I have used the opening text from promotional material issued by the Mirror for a new title.

I am working on the first story using the scans from the Mirror's records. The upload of that should hopefully be later in the year,and will be followed by all the stories in chronological order.

Just like Garth himself this selection travels through time. If you like time travel, space adventure and great story and art, I hope you find something here to enjoy.
Hopeful you enjoy the stories as much as I did when I read them in my youth.
3 more strips shared by him are available HERE. I'll try to share rest as he'll put online.



  PREVIEW Garth 001 - The Story of Garth the Strong















 Garth - The Captive


 

 Garth - The Doomsmen


Garth - The Gold of Ragnarock(Fixed)

15 comments:

  1. Thank you very much... Garth was somehow never my favorite.. I guess because at that age when it was in Indrajal..the art and story was so abstract.. I guess.. but maybe now I will like it...

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  2. I should second KK. Garth was never my favorite action hero, back in those days. And even now, I feel that they lack the punch, which we have come to expect out of the British comic strip legends like Modesty, James Bond, etc.

    It's artwork were too abstract, and at times, you would find it pretty complex to understand, the foreground or the background.

    The recent attempt to revitalize the strip with new age drawing is much more pathetic than the older ones. They don't have any semblance of style, comparing to which the olden ones look far more better.

    Still a collectors item, thanks for sharing Prabhat :) I have the exact same content, which I picked from a Garth torrent some months back.

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  3. @KK: Kishore, like you, Rafiq and many other Indrajal fans, Garth was not my favorite also. However I didn't miss any Indrajal comics featuring him. May be nostalgia of Indrajal attracts Old Man Mozz also. I'd also like to collect all Garth e-strips/comics.

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  4. @Rafiq Raja: I agree with you.

    One very interesting point to note, THE LORD OF RINGS was also written in that period by a great British author (Oxford University professor) J. R. R. Tolkien. May be, the fear before the war was one of the reason behind such comics/books which were created/written in that region.

    Pete has worked hard to present this strips. That's why specially put in his words- who saw it can understand from where and avoid downloading. And who didn't get it, could be aware about his thought.

    Many friends avoid downloading from torrents, that's why posted at blogging platform on request of Old Man Mozz, otherwise send him links by e-mail. I had noted in earlier post that relatively less persons were interested.

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  5. Last Month I posted about garth comics torrent in my blog.Thanks for medaifire link.

    Lovingly,
    Lucky Limat

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  6. THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS for posting the Garth specifically for me.......

    Appreciate it.....

    I have to agree with Rafiq, KK & you that I was not a big fan of Garth during IJC. But what brought back the interest was when I started reading Modesty Blaise and that is by Frank Bellamy and then I read some Garth old strips and then I was hooked.....

    The themes are more fantastic and in a realm of fantasy but this strip explores the modern with the ancient with the futuristic so it is fascinating. But I agree that not all Garth strips are in the same league as Modesty.

    But if none is really interested. Maybe you can just send me the links.....I will be more than delighted :-D :-D

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  7. I have to say that the revival Garth comics is not the same but I am more interested in the old strips that were published in the Daily Mirror. It would be great if you could find those.

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  8. @Lucky Limat: I thought I had wasted time in sharing as you already shared. But, relieved seeing no link there. :)

    Could you pls add a translator in you blog? I'd be helpful to people like me who can't read due to language.

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  9. @Old Man Mozz: I was wondering where is our the party boy. :))

    My interest to comics is limited in classical version also. Tried to read many new style popular comics. Never ended at a stretch, although posted some. :))

    I really share comics to good friends & regular visitors which I don't post or less people are interested. Just for uploading comics, increased internet. Whenever I get free time upload and send. Pls once again remind me your e-mail address, unable to track.

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  10. Hi Prabhat,

    no problem will send you an email......

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  11. I would like to see the entire GARTH comic strips in book form. Back in the late 1940' to mid 1950's in GARTH was reprinted in a series of some 20 black & white 12p comic books. I used to own them but that comic collection was stolen when I moved to the USA. It was ALWAYS a great comic strip and Garth had a cloak in one adventure and flew in one of the reprints of the 1940's comic strip. AMAZING stories. www.paulpower.com

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  12. Sorry I meant to say 'In Australia. In regards to GARTH reprint comic books in the 1950's. Paul Power USA

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  13. I just came across this blog today, I am an avid fan of Garth, any chance of getting his strips anywhere?

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  14. Hi, The mediafire links aren't working. I'd like to get the Garth comics that you've listed. Thanks Dilip

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