Regular contributor and Loyal Reader Brian Berke from the Big Apple over
there, sent this as a memory
trigger (just as real life was getting frisky again here), off the back of the recent Marx
Romans post, so here - in his own words - is that story, illustrated by Brian,
by way of a follow-up!
"A few years ago I contacted Paul Morehead [Editor of Plastic Warrior magazine] with a sketch of a pose that I remembered from the
50's.
It was of a figure that was sold in Woolworth for
3d unpainted as part of their Romans. Back in 1957/58 I had converted with
craft knife and Plasticine this figure into the character 'Wulf the Briton'
then appearing in Express Weekly comic. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Weekly]
Paul identified it from a Marx catalogue and I
found it reissued in Russia in a set of Romans [by
DZI or now; Ark Models]. Luckily
for me it was a few years ago as now I avoid anything Russian.
Attached is the figure in contest with a Roman
recreating the scene from 1958, this time using modelling putty not Plasticine."
Many thnaks to Brian for sending this; the figure works well and that hair is rebelliously distinctive!
I don't remember Wulf the Briton at all, yet it's drawn by one of my favorite
commercial artists; Ron Embleton, of Fleetway's
famous Trigan Empire strip, so I will
try to catch-up, now - Google informs me - the stories have been reissued in
bound volumes. I've bought the bound Trigan
Empire, a present to myself with a small portion of my father's legacy a
while back.
And I should note that there is no
consistency throughout the blog with my choosing of colours, fonts or size of
text when trying to differentiate or highlight other people's contributions or
quotes!
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