Monday, 5 April 2021

Raymond Sheppard and Swift Comic: Birds and their nests (Part One)

Cover for Birds and their nests
 

Back in 2014, David Slinn helped me with first-hand information on the two series in the comic, Swift which Raymond Sheppard illustrated. The first I presented was "Animals and their young", now it's time for "Birds and their nests"

I've scanned the following from this reprint title from 1962 by Longacre Press. It matches the Animals book in size and colour but interestingly the title of the series is different

Here's the index to show you what appears and just like the previous book there are one or two images missed out - for what reason, we have no idea. Each image appeared on the right hand page with a description of the bird on the left hand page - thus the cover image's description appears at the back - here.

Birds and their nests p.80

Below are the issue dates for which Sheppard images appeared in the original comic with the 'missing' image highlighted which you'll find at the end :

4 Jan 1958The Rook
11 Jan 1958The Song Thrush
18 Jan 1958The Mute Swan
25 Jan 1958The Blue Tit
1 Feb 1958The Lapwing
8 Feb 1958The Green Woodpecker
15 Feb 1958The Magpie
22 Feb 1958The Wren
1 Mar 1958The Heron
8 Mar 1958The Blackbird
15 Mar 1958The Kestrel
22 Mar 1958The Chaffinch
29 Mar 1958The Jay
5 Apr 1958Long-tailed Tit
12 Apr 1958The Kingfisher
19 Apr 1958The Golden Eagle
26 Apr 1958The Black-headed Gull
3 May 1958The Great Crested Grebe
10 May 1958The Reed Warbler
17 May 1958The Barn Owl

p.5 Barn Owl

p.7 Blackbird

To illustrate how these appeared with some text, here's the example from Swift 8 March 1958

Swift 8 March 1958

p.9 Black-headed gull

p.11 Chaffinch

p.27 Golden Eagle

p.33 Great Crested Grebe

p.35 Green Woodpecker

p.37 Heron

p.39 Jay
Part Two to follow soon

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