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that made him well known. Apart from King, his characters included the muscular sexual adventurer Drum, a clueless comic character Zeke and Rogan a space cop, as well as illustrations to John Embry's story The
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during a change of ownership. He tried, with the help of John Embry to have them returned but failed. Some of his work remained with his "dowager partner" Brian
Rawlinson in a space he used for drawing but eventually the studio (at Linden Gardens), filled with piles of magazines and detritus, needed
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leather club heard about it with only a day to spare. With
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clearing. With no idea what to do with the explicit drawings he had been left, Rawlinson's houseclearers were due put them in the same skip as the rest of the contents. Fortunately Bill's model for his character Drum, Robert
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Tristano. He did not produce sexually explicit works until he had retired from reliance on mainstream comic work. Gay sex and images portraying or 'encouraging it' were illegal in the period before 1967. During the 1970s he was working for the
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made display or publication difficult. Burch supplied information for ‘Comics
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met him and was an admirer, owning work by Ward. In the 1990s, now living in
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