Starburst – London Comic Book Store Adverts – Part 2

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Here’s the second part of our look at the other comic book shop and other interesting adverts featured in the early issues of Starburst Magazine:

Starburst issue 2 – 1978 – Weird Fantasy Bookshop, 3 Lewisham Way, London, SE14. Never got to go to this place, I love the look of this ad though with it’s EC Comics style logo!

Weird Fantasy SB2 1978

Starburst issue 16 – 1979 – Weird Fantasy

Weird Fantasy SB16 1979

Starburst issue 14 – 1979 – Games Workshop, 1 Dalling Road, Hammersmith, London, W6. It’s role playing games but hey that’s close enough to comics and I’ve always wanted the Gamma World game!

Games Workshop SB14 1979

Starburst issue 76 – 1984 – Heroes: The Comic Shop, 21 Canonbury Lane, Islington, London, N1 2SP

Heroes SB76 1984

Starburst issue 12 – 1979 – Metropolitan Movies – Super 8MM genre films!

Metropolitan Movies SB12 1979

Starburst issue 11 – 1979 – Titan Distributors, the UK’s leading comics distributor.

Titan Distributors SB11 1979

Starburst – London Comic Book Store Adverts – Part 1

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More from the pages of Starburst magazine, here’s  Part 1 of a selection of London Comic Book Stores and Dealers from the late 1970s into the 1980s!

Starburst issue 1 – 1978 – The Comic Dealer

Comic Dealer SB1 1978

Starburst issue 33 – 1981 – Comic Showcase, 15 Catherine Street, London, WC2

Comic Showcase SB33 1981

Starburst issue 36 – 1981 – Comic Showcase, 15 Catherine Street, London, WC2

Comic Showcase SB36 1981

Starburst issue 17 – 1980 – Arrow Films Ltd – VHS sales

Arrow Films SB17 1980

Starburst issue 14 – 1979 – Great advert for the long running and fondly remembered Comic Marts at Central Hall, always loved going to these!

Comic Mart SB14 1979

Starburst issue 47 – 1982 – Eye In The Pyramid, 33 Marshall Street, W1. This is a really interesting advert simply because I’ve never heard of this store before and never went there, plus it’s super central being just off Carnaby Street, would have loved to pay this place a visit.

Eye In The Pyramid SB47 1982

Network 7 – Channel 4

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Network 7, or Network Seven as the actual logo spells it, was a short lived but fairly groundbreaking TV show from Channel 4 that aired for two seasons in 1987 & 1988. I remember this show very fondly mostly because for the first time there was actually something interesting to watch on TV during Sunday daytime!

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Last year I found two blank tapes on ebay and the picture shows the labels saying they had Network 7 episodes on them, so I took the chance and won the tapes, hoping that what was written on them was what was actually on the tapes. We got lucky and the tapes were what they said they were, two complete episodes of the show from 1988! Those tapes have now reached the top of the To Upload pile and I added them to our YouTube channel this week. These two episodes come from towards the end of the second season, by that time all the presenters I remember seem to have moved on, but these are still two fun shows and reminded me of how far ahead of it’s time the show seemed even then. Enjoy these two complete shows below:

Network 7 – full episode from Sunday 18th September 1988

Network 7 – Full episode from Sunday 25th September 1988