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LADY PENELOPE

Artist: The Number One (Inker)

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Title:	LADY PENELOPE
Artist:	The Number One (Inker)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Pin Up
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Views:	477
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	6/6/2021
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In the year 1968, a young comic artist later called "The Number One) had the pleasure to draw LADY PENELOPE for a magazine made in Holland (TV 2000).

Lady Penelope was a British weekly comic book magazine for girls which ran from 1966 to 1969. Produced by Century 21 Publications and published by City Magazines, it was a sister publication to TV Century 21. Lady Penelope was edited by Gillian Allan, wife of comic strip writer Angus Allan.

The title character was based on Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, the secret agent seen in the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson/AP Films television series Thunderbirds. Most of the other strips in the comic were also based on popular television shows of the era.
The artist of LADY PENELOPE was:
Frank Cyril Langford, born Cyril J. Eidlestein in Stepney, London, on 2 June 1926. His mother's maiden name was Goldblatt. He married Hilda M. Langford in Hampstead, London, in 1953, and changed his name legally to Langford some time in the 1960s.

His earliest work in comics was in Roxy in the late 1950s. His highest-profile work in British comics was "The Angry Planet" (1963) in Boy's World, some pages of which are signed "Eidlestein", and the title strip in Lady Penelope (1966-69). From 1969 to 1973 he drew romance comics for DC in the US, in titles such as Secret Hearts, Young Love, Young Romance and Falling in Love. He also drew "Doctor Who" for Countdown (1971) TV Action (1973) and the Doctor Who Holiday Special (1973), "The Persuaders" (1973) for TV Action, and the daily strip Jack and Jill, written by Les Lilley, for the Herald and Sun (early '70s). He had a long-standing sideline in advertising strips, from ads for the W.R.A.C. in 1964 to Corgi Toys in 1979 to KP Outer Spacers in 1982.

He died in Enfield, Middlesex, in the first quarter of 1996.

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Jeremy Macpherson
Member Since 2014

Posted on 6/8/2021

Bravo, it is fantastic to see this rare artwork of Lady Penelope. The pages are very stylish and look fantastic! The information on Frank Langford is also very interesting. I have read that John M. Burns also drew some of the Lady Penelope artwork.

Roy Mann
Member Since 2008

Posted on 6/9/2021

Jeremy Macpherson wrote:

Thanks to visit and appreciate.

In that days of 1968 I cooperate at various serial-strips for the magazine TV 2000, and the job was always very fast because the short deadlines.

Roy Mann
Member Since 2008

Posted on 6/9/2021

Jeremy Macpherson wrote:

It is possible that also John M. Burns (Modesty Blaise - The Seekers) drew on Lady Penelope comics, this characters was published in Great Britain in various magazines.

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