The first in a long and very complex chain of titles that has taken me years to unravel! For a more detailed look, see my separate article on The Mysteries of Wonder. If you want to know whether something is hurtful you don’t ask the one doing the hurting: you ask the victim. (Apologists will argue that this is just my modern “PC” culture and those attitudes weren’t considered to be racist back then. As with many comics of its era it was littered with plenty of old-timey racist attitudes. So let’s get cracking, shall we, on this mostly new and updated and fleshed-out Buster Comic Timeline!Īs you can see from the facts ‘n’ figures above, this second wind for Illustrated Chips knocked out almost five hundred times as many issues as the first version. But when I recently discovered a couple of hitherto-unknown-by-me members of the family tree, I decided it was time gird the bullet and bite my… erm… never mind what. That, too, takes a lot of time to compile. I’ve been putting off doing this for Buster because these timelines take much, much longer to put together than a simple tree, plus my first few charts ( Eagle, Buster and My Guy) didn’t include a complete list of all the titles outside of the main graphic. Back then, I was more interested in the family tree aspect - showing how the comics linked to each other - than in presenting a much more useful timeline where it’s easy to see which comics co-existed at any given time. To commemorate the demise of that great comic, here’s a revised edition of the Buster family tree that debuted in June 2018 on this very blog. IPC’s Buster comic waved good-bye on 4 January 2000, exactly twenty years ago.
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