LATEST UPDATES:  July 3, 2007 - Downloadable Captain Scarlet Comic strips checklist

RON EMBLETON

The artist who drew those wonderful action panels for the end credits of the television series, Ron Embleton (Ronald Sydney Embleton (1931-1988), has also drawn the early Captain Scarlet comic strips and Stringray strips.  Within his non-related arts, he was the artist of "The Trigan Empire", "Oh, Wicked Wanda!",  "Sweet Chastity", "Wrath of the Gods" (with a text by Michael Moorcock), and was the illustrator for couple of Roman military books.

Ron Embleton was also the artist for the poster of the  Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons bubble gum cards , which was released in 1968.  While one side of each cards carries an drawn action scene or photography from the television series, the other side had a piece of the Embleton poster.  The complete set works like a puzzle for the illustration.  The poster was also available in a whole.

To view a sample of Ron Embleton's beautiful drawings, just click on the following miniatures. Aside from the poster, about all of them come from the first and second strips drawn by the master.  Those are just some samples I have put  to demonstrate the extend of Embleton's art.   If you have other such samples and want to share them with people -  I am actually looking for arts from Mike Noble and Frank Bellamy - feel free to communicate with me.  Be aware, though, that I WON'T PUBLISH entire comic strips... It would not be fair for writers,  artists, publishers, merchants, etc.  This is just an information page.

Enjoy!

 

 

END CREDITS PANELS

 

Courtesy of one faithful visitor, "DJU", I now am able to present to you those beautiful panels from the show end credits! Click on the image to have a full view of each panels.  

 

The original paintings of those panels, previously own by producer Reg Hill,  were recently sold during the TV Generation sale at Christie's.  Images from those paintings were then available to download to your computer.  If you missed the opportunity, here it is again for you.  Note that FANDERSON is also presently offering a full set of ten newly released overgrown cards (each two times the size of a regular trading card), featuring each one of the ten original painting by Ron Embleton. You have to be a member to buy them - or  know a member who will get them for you. (Thanks to the friend who had sent them to me.  They are really priceless!)

 

 

Swamped!				King Cobra
Death fall				Dynamite
Fall from car				Tank
Spikes				Jaws of death
Timber!				Into the fire

 

 

ADDED JULY 3, 2007:

COLLECTOR'S CHECKLIST   

If you are a collector, looking for all the Captain Scarlet comic strips, you can download for yourself the Captain Scarlet comic strip checklist, which might help you out.  With the exception of the stories which appeared in the Annuals, every Captain Scarlet strip appears onto that list, with the magazine issue(s) in which each part has been published.  On that same checklist, you can also find the titles of the magazines in which some of those same strips were reprinted over the years.  Happy hunting!   

RON EMBLETON

FRANK BELLAMY