Covers gallery: Misty 1979 — GREAT NEWS FOR ALL READERS!

I am a collector of comics published in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s and this blog collects my memories of being a reader of these comics as a child, my observations as a collector today and an attempt to catalogue the comics from a fan’s perspective. My first post on the blog was posted on 31 August 2015 and for the first 28 months I focused solely on comics published by IPC. Since then I have occasionally looked at comics published by other houses (such as DC Thomson) but the focus remains mainly on IPC.

Over time, I will try to index as many of the issues, stories, characters and their talented creators as I am able. This is mostly a nostalgic appreciation of wonderful storytelling, art and design, but I’m also searching for something more significant. For me and for so many others of my generation, these comics were our literature, our social media and our companions when the telly was switched off – I’m sure that they must have had some sort of impact on how we understood and related to the world both then and today.

At first I was writing mainly about my own experiences and memories of reading comics. In 2016 I started to write ‘On This Day’ posts, looking in detail at particular issues that bore the cover date of the day of the blog post (the cover date was usually the day that a comic went off-sale rather than the day it was published).

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May 12 Covers gallery: Misty 1979

Covers Gallery, Misty

Cover artwork: John Richardson

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Carlos Guirado

Cover artwork: Shirley Bellwood

Cover artwork: Jaime Rumeu

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Shirley Bellwood

Cover artwork: Shirley Bellwood

Cover artwork: Shirley Bellwood

Cover artwork: artist unknown

Cover artwork: John Richardson

Cover artwork: Jaime Rumeu

Cover artwork: John Richardson

Cover artwork: Josep Gual

Cover artwork: José Cánovas Martinez

Cover artwork: Eduardo Feito

Cover artwork: Jaime Rumeu

Cover artwork: Shirley Bellwood

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: José Ariza

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi?

Cover artwork: José Ariza

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: José Ariza

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Jaime Rumeu

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Julio Bosch

Cover artwork: Josep Gual

Cover artwork: Shirley Bellwood

Cover artwork: Jaime Rumeu

Cover artwork: Mario Capaldi

Cover artwork: Jesus Redondo

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: José Ariza

Cover artwork: Maria Barrera

Cover artwork: José Ariza

Cover artwork: Blas Gallego

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

Cover artwork: Isdro Monés

Cover artwork: Maria Barrera

Cover artwork: José Cánovas Martinez

Cover artwork: Jordi Badea Romero

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