St Pancras Panda - Back Street Bugle, 1978-1979

St Pancras Panda ran for thirteen episodes in Pauper Press's Back Street Bugle ('Oxford's Other Paper') from issue 6 in February 1978 until issue 25 in March 1979.

• Episode 1 "The Adventures of St. Pancras Panda".Back-Street Bugle issue 6, 7th February 1978

• Episode 2 - “The Story So Far…”. Back-Street Bugle issue 7, 21st February 1978

• Episode 3 - “The Widescreen adventures of St. Pancras Panda”. Back-Street Bugle issue 8, 7th March 1978

• Episode 4 - “His Name In Lights”. Back-Street Bugle issue 9, 21st February 1978

• Episode 5 “The Trial of St. Pancras Panda”. Back-Street Bugle issue 10, 21st March 1978

•  Episode 6 “The Prison Writings of St. Pancras Panda”. Back-Street Bugle issue 11, 18th April 1978

•  Episode 7 - “St. Pancras Panda Encounters Mental Illness”. Back-Street Bugle issue 12, 4th June 1978

•  Episode 8 - “The Astounding Adventures of St. Pancras Panda”. Back-Street Bugle issue 14, 6th June 1978

•  Episode 9 - “St. Pancras Panda Encounters Normality”. Back-Street Bugle issue 15, 6th June 1978 (Guest illustrated by Dick Forman)

• Episode 10 - “St. Pancras Panda Gets Right Up The Nose in the Pyramid”. Back-Street Bugle issue 16, 4th July 1978

•  Episode 11 - “St Punkras Panda Confronts Apathy”. Back-Street Bugle issue 18, 15th August 1978

•  Episode 12 - “The Electric Kool Aid St. Pancras Panda”. Back-Street Bugle issue 22, 1st December 1978

•  Episode 13 - “St Pancras Panda Gets a Dose O Dat Old Time Religion”. Back-Street Bugle issue 25 1st March 1979

The final two episodes “Panky’s Inferno” & “Pro Pandum Mori” remain unpublished

DARK STAR - Published by Dark Star Publishing 1979 - 1980

These seven single page comic strips were printed in Dark Star magazine between 1979 & 1980. Contributors to Dark Star Magazine were not paid for their work.  

The first two were written and drawn by Alan, the last five were written by Steve Moore with Alan providing the artwork.

Contents

• Dark Star 19 – The Avenging Hunchback By Alan Moore; sketches and ideas with Steve Moore. (reprinted in “I Have to Live with This Guy”).

• Dark Star 20 – Kultural Krime Comix By Alan Moore (reprinted in “I Have to Live With This Guy”).

• Dark Star 21 – Talcum Power By Curt + Peter. 

• Dark Star 22-25 – Three Eyes McGurk and His Death Planet Commandoes By Curt Vile (pencil) and Pedro Henry (script and inking). (reprinted in Rip-off Comix #8)

• Dark Star Magazine Cover Gallery 

On March 31st, 1979 Spotlight Publication’s national UK music weekly, Sounds published the first instalment of Roscoe Moscow: Who Killed Rock n’ Roll.

The strip would run semi-weekly until the last part was published on the 2th June 1980

Written under the pseudonym of Curt Vile this was Alan Moore's first ongoing serial strip. Maxwell The Magic Cat from the same year was more episodic in nature.

Alan Moore's Roscoe Moscow In Who Killed Rock N Roll Board Game was published in the 1979 Christmas edition of Sounds

This cut out and make kind of board game was common in Christmas issues of British comics

The game is credited to Curt and Phyllis Vile

The PDF is five pages of the same thing

• Pages one and two are reformatted with a whitened background for easier printing on A3 or larger paper

• Page three is how the game was laid out in Sounds over two double pages

• Pages four and five are the original page scans

Alan Moore’s second ongoing strip for Sounds magazine plunders its title from the science-fiction novel by Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (1956).

Featuring Axel Pressbutton. Moore wrote most of the episodes and drew all of them.

The strip appeared in Sounds over four years from 12 July 1980 to 19 March 1983.

Also included in this collection are three Christmas stories that break from the continuing narrative.

• 1980 Christmas Break: Ten Little Liggers

• 1981 Christmas Edition: Christmas On Depravity

• 1982 Christmas Edition: The Bride of Pressbutton

These three strips have been included in date of publication order rather than nudging them to the back of the collection.