Heres a comic which you can see above at the bottom was created by Worcestershire Webb Offset Ltd.....don't know how many issues there were.never saw it or heard of it until buying in bulk on ebay and it came with the other comics.....
Very glossy comic.
The comic doesn't grab me at all....it couldn't have lasted...
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Hi Peter,
Your blog is really good, with lots of great covers and information, It's really goood to see a comic I've never seen or heard of before this "TV Help Comic" may not be very good but it's certainly interesting to me, do you have anymore comics like this if so please put them up.
Phil The Fluter
I'll have a look..did a feature on Triffic comic as well on the blog.
I wrote for this! (BeastEnders, Lagney and Casey, Small Creatures Grate and Pall, etc.) - David Robinson, Peterborough
I remember seeing it for sale, and to me, it looked like an imitation of Oink, but not so good. The logotype reminded me of Oink's one. Strange name for a comic, even for one of TV parodies. In one of his Oink cartoons, Lew Stringer had a copy of "TV Yelp" lying in the gutter. Leafing through it at the time, I remember there was a strip called Beastenders. Buster had a strip of that name by Autumn 1988, but I don't know if it was the same one. Oink had a lot of parodies, inspired by Mad, and I feel with the right publicity, TV Help could have been more of a success. Perhaps if it had had a different name.
Again, it was I who scripted Beastenders for TV Help! Ours was dissimilar to Buster's, in that theirs was creature-based (monsters) whereas ours contained anthropomorphic animals as its characters. The artist for ours was far better than Reg Parlett (and if you believe that...). The two seem to have been conceived, quite separately from each other, without any swiping in either direction: it clearly wasn't that original a pun - D. Robinson, Peterborough
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